ABSTRACT
The paper reports the results of a qualitative study that separately interviewed over 40 residents and over 40 business people in Shi Cha Hai hutong. It identifies four major groups of impacts being noted as arising from the development of tourism, namely changes in physical appearance of the hutong, increased noise, increased congestion and issues of safety and public order. It relates these changes to a growth of migrant entrepreneurs and the specific growth of the pedicab business. The data permit the development of a hutong destination life cycle framework of analysis that modifies the Butlerian life cycle by the addition of a further axis and a discussion of a continuum of localization, globalization and glocalisation.
