Peasant Family Happiness Documentary Analysis

We tend to generalize tourism as an international industry specialize on their host country as a whole. For example, when we think about people going to Rio de Janeiro, we always picture international people going and that these tourists are enhancing tourism in the whole country. While this is true, what most people tend to forget it that Rio also receives every year a huge amount of domestic tourists. That is not an isolate “phenomenon”, countries benefit a lot from domestic tourism, just as is illustrate in the Peasant Family Happiness documentary, where it is seem as an opportunity to promote rural modernization and development. The Chinese government is not the only one gaining from urban resident travel to rural areas, the rural villages are as well. They want to promote modernization with the profits that the tourism industry brings to their village, which would encourage the continuous entrance of …show more content…
In this documentary we can see how domestic tourism on rural areas are developing and the need of the modernization that the younger residents ask. We can notice that most of the festival training, presentation, and costumes are mostly presented by the youngers seeking for this change, for this range of possibilities that the tourism can bring. Even though it can make us question this idea of traditional and ethnic culture, such as, are the villages only marketing the traditional for the tourist? Apparently they are, but at the same time it makes us question… Does the tourist even question the traditional? Or does it agree with what they want to see and the reality of the village is not that important? However, by the end of the day, the development of tourism in the rural areas illustrated, are challenging and shows how the cultivation of the ethnic and cultural identity is important for its growth and