What is the role of folk specialties in tourism?

The function of folk specialties in tourism is to meet the psychological needs of tourists for "novelty, novelty, pleasure and knowledge".

As the crystallization of a region and a nation's long history and cultural development, it contains extremely rich social content. Because local characteristics and folk customs are the soul of tourism resources development, they are unique and irreplaceable. Therefore, in a sense, folk tourism belongs to high-level tourism.

By carrying out folk tourism activities, tourists can experience the life of local people, realize their self-improvement tourism purposes, and thus achieve a good realm of play. The contents of folk tourism mainly include life culture, marriage and family life etiquette culture, oral inheritance culture, folk song and dance entertainment culture, festival culture and belief culture.

Extended data:

As a kind of cultural capital that can produce economic and social benefits, folk cultural tourism is invented by power and political capital. It is intended to generate social benefits through the shock of folk culture and different cultures, promote the development of tertiary industries such as catering, accommodation, shopping, transportation, employment and investment attraction, and promote the integration of regional economy into the global market system.

In the process of China's current economic development, cultural capital has also begun to intervene in the modernization movement in many places. Some special forms of cultural capital, such as local folk culture and traditional culture with historical charm, have risen from the edge of the original modern discourse of the nation-state to cultural capital that can be transformed into economic capital.

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