关键词: 社区化, 旅游社区, 旅游目的地, 社区旅游

Abstract: This paper comprehensively investigates the concepts of tourism community and community tourism. Having analyzed the formation mechanism of tourist resources, the author studies the classification, stability, and evolution of tourist communities. The four types of tourist communities:natural resources based tourist community, policy oriented tourist community, economy based tourist community, and history sedimental tourist community have different stabilities. This paper also investigates the differences among traditional tourism, ecotourism and community tourism.

Key words: communitification, tourist community, tourist destination, community tourism