What positive effects does tourism have on folk culture?

The positive effects of tourism on folk culture:

1. Increase the economic income of people in ethnic areas and improve their survival and living conditions

The development of tourism, It is a fact recognized by everyone that it can promote the economic development of ethnic minority areas. Tourism brings foreign exchange earnings, increases local government fiscal revenue, and provides more job opportunities for local people. Their family income increases and they embark on the road to get rid of poverty and become rich. The development of tourism requires certain infrastructure and tourism facilities, which are not only used by the tourism industry, but also enjoyed by local residents. This will change the original lifestyle and life concepts of people in ethnic minority areas, such as changes in transportation facilities, lighting facilities, family accommodation environments and conditions, etc., allowing them to have a more civilized lifestyle and gradually embark on the road to "modernization" .

2. Broaden the horizons of people in ethnic minority areas and enable them to embark on the road of "globalization" faster

With the development of tourism activities, a large number of foreigners have poured in, which has also brought Come to many new things and foreign cultures. Local people have gone from actively resisting to fully recognizing and even accepting tourists’ culture. This is a process of gradually broadening their horizons. As a result, their psychological tolerance and acceptance of foreign cultures have gradually increased. The world's "globalization" has become an irreversible trend today. We cannot simply think that once traditional national culture enters globalization, it will lose its own characteristics. According to the principle of the two-way influence of globalization and national culture, each nation does not passively accept foreign culture. While accepting, it also makes its own culture go to the world through the process of globalization. The higher the degree of globalization of a national culture, the more beneficial it will be to the development of the nation, and the national culture will be able to gain more space for survival and development. The broadening of horizons enables people in ethnic minority areas to be more comprehensively psychologically prepared, and can take a more proactive stance in the process of globalization and gain more opportunities.

3. Enhance national self-confidence and realize the revival of traditional national culture

Before the 1980s, “modern discourse rejected folk, marginal, and non-mainstream culture. It has been endowed with a series of superstitious, backward, and ignorant images, and holders of folk, marginal, and non-mainstream cultures have internalized this series of superstitious, backward, and ignorant images as an aspect of their self-identity." After the 1980s, with the development of tourism, ethnic culture was exploited and favored, which aroused the self-esteem, self-confidence and pride of people in ethnic areas, prompting them to re-understand and evaluate their own culture. This arousal of national self-esteem and self-confidence, as well as the reaffirmation of self-culture after re-understanding and evaluation, aroused their great enthusiasm to restore the original national traditional culture that has now disappeared or is almost extinct, and promotes the traditional The revival of national culture. In turn, this also promotes the development of ethnic tourism.