The Development of Bed and Breakfast Industry in Gulangyu Island: A Cultural Anthropology Perspective

Abstract

In recent years, due to the improvement of people's living standards, as a new accommodation type, the B and B industry has been developing rapidly in China, especially in the tourist resort areas. However, most of the studies on B and B business form are from the perspective of tourism and economy, and analyze it from a single perspective, without considering the overall view. This paper tries to study the B and B industry in Gulangyu Island from the perspective of cultural anthropology, trying to provide new thinking for the development of B and B industry in the community of Gulangyu World International Heritage Site under the COVID-19 pandemic.