THE CONTENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SCENIC AREA OF RURAL ETHNIC COMMUNITIES IN WESTERN CHINA——TAKE TYPICAL RURAL ETHNIC COMMUNITIES IN YUNNAN AS AN EXAMPLE

Basing on factors and their spatial effect tourism,this article defines content of and the Scenic Area Rural Ethnic Communities.And regards scenic community affairs,the tourism economic functions,the industry margin management etc.as specific characterization the Scenic Area Rural Ethnic Communities.It considers results scenic area rural ethnic communities will inevitably change rural ethnic communities into tourism communities.This article preliminarily studies content and features rural ethnic tourism communities and further subdivides into name presence type,practitioner participation type,landscape assets type and mixing balance type.Empirical studies on Manting five villages,Yubeng Village,Lushui Village and Lige Village in Yunnan suggest that Manting five villages belong to name presence type and rest belong to practitioner participation type.