The main types of rural tourism in China

1. Market-dependent type, also called source-dependent type.

Since the target customer group of rural tourism is city people, its target market is the metropolis. The use of metropolitan suburbs to develop rural tourism is currently China's most common, the most mature, the most considerable market potential of a type. From the current operation situation, this kind of rural tourism is basically positioned to provide leisure and recreation for urban residents in the 'back garden', with the help of the style of the modern city is very different from the idyllic garden, village landscape and picking, fishing, tasting and other experiential activities, to attract urban residents to come to the vacation, rest, and to provide short-term rest and vacation tourism products to the public.

2. Scenic area dependent type.

The scenic relying type of rural tourism, is with the famous tourist attractions itself the popularity and source of the advantages of the scenic area to drive the countryside around the scenic area of the tourism accommodation, catering, shopping and other ancillary services, and at the same time, pulling the local agricultural and sideline products, the sale of local specialty products.

3, resource-dependent type, also known as characteristic village type.

Resource-based rural tourism refers to the use of local village ecology, folklore, architecture, humanities and other characteristics of resources, a mode of tourism reception. This type of rural tourism is generally far from the city, the degree of modernization is low, the traffic is not very developed. And the historical factors formed by the transportation barrier, is often the reason why certain villages can maintain their own vernacular characteristics, or the reason why they have not been discovered.