What is the relationship between tourism and folklore?

As the crystallization of a region and a nation's long history and cultural development, folk culture contains extremely rich social content. Because local characteristics and folk customs are the soul of tourism resources development, they are unique and irreplaceable.

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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. At present, 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, belief culture and so on.

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Folk tourism has not only become an important cultural resource for government departments to develop economy and attract foreign investment, but also a way to satisfy the imagination of westerners and "understand" the lifestyle of China people.

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.

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