Main types and characteristics of rural tourism in China

According to its characteristics, it can be subdivided into the following eight categories:

1. Rural folk custom types.

Refers to the tourism activities carried out with rural folk customs as the carrier, including local unique customs and scenery. Rural folk customs are divided into nearly 20 categories, such as age, festival, marriage, birth, birthday, folk medicine, funeral, communication, etiquette, clothing, diet, residence, equipment, transportation, production, occupation, folk crafts, religion, society, entertainment, belief, sacrifice, witchcraft and taboo. Villages with these folk resources can make use of their own advantages to develop folk tourism.

2. Traditional rural agriculture.

The limited scope of rural tourism is mainly in rural areas, so this kind of tourism is inseparable from the process of agricultural production and development. However, there are two types of agricultural tourism: traditional agriculture and modern agriculture. Therefore, as one of the traditional rural tourism modes, its types refer to old-fashioned agricultural production and sightseeing activities, such as old-fashioned agricultural production process, farming culture, farmers' labor and life scenes, etc.

3. Ancient villages and towns.

This category refers to the tourism activities of viewing, sightseeing, viewing, exhibition and research with ancient villages, ancient buildings, ancient dwellings and ancient rural environmental atmosphere as the carrier.

4. Rural geomantic omen or local customs.

In the old days, many villages developed by virtue of their unique geographical environment and geomantic structure. Some were carefully designed and built according to geomantic theory, and some spontaneously formed according to the real landscape environment. For example, different landforms and waterways were used to form various reasonable village spatial layout forms such as drainage, water supply, cold protection, wind protection, lighting and transportation. Rural Tourism Planning Expert-Zhi Ming Tourism Planning. This is of great practical significance to the development of rural environmental tourism, scientific tourism, experience tourism and cultural investigation and research activities.

5. Rural native products.

Tasting and buying rural local products is one of the important purposes for urban or foreign tourists to enter rural tourism. Native products include rural production, daily necessities, rural flavor foods, rural handicrafts, and famous rural specialties. Most of these items have a broad sales market and inherent brand image, a long history and a relatively fixed style and technology level, so their credibility, characteristics and popularity are relatively large. Tourists' knowledge of local products is an important driving force for the development of such rural tourism.

6. Rural recreation.

From the perspective of demand supply, most villages close to cities provide excellent places and facilities for urban residents to relax, vacation and entertain during holidays or leisure time, such as farmhouse music, fisherman's music, animal husbandry music, family hotels and country hotels.

7. rural attractions.

Refers to the rural tourism model developed by relying on the village or its adjacent historical, cultural or scenic resources. The characteristic of this kind of tourism is "borrowing scenery", that is, lending the scenic spots and historical sites left by ancestors and nature to future generations, and its function is mainly sightseeing, and promoting local rural tourism through other characteristic landscapes. Beijing's Mentougou Tanzhe Temple Village, Huairou Mutianyu Village and Fangshan Zhoukoudian Village have developed into rural tourist destinations with the help of nearby places of interest and natural scenery.

8. Rural red tourism.

This category refers to the rural tourism activities that have red tourism resources and use this advantage to develop red tourism as the theme and carry out patriotic traditional education. This kind of tourism is the need of China's political, economic and social development, and now a large number of rural tourist spots are fully developing this kind of tourism products, which has become a hot spot of rural tourism.