Tourism, especially in the European Alps, contributes to rural livelihood and depends on farming to preserve the landscape. The symbiosis is also expected to strengthen community resilience, conceptualized as a combination of economic, social, cultural, political and natural domains. The interplay of these domains may result in path dependencies driven by lock-in effects, beyond which controlled development is basically not possible. In our study of two villages in the Austrian Alps, we investigate how long-term development pathways affect the domains of community resilience in terms of path dependencies and lock-ins. A document analysis of a former Man and the Biosphere project from the 1970s, combined with recent qualitative expert interviews enabled us to draw a longitudinal picture of both villages that highlights strengths and weaknesses of each domain. Conclusions reveal that the different development pathways of the communities still result in similar economic, structural and political lock-ins that reinforce path dependencies.

旅游业，特别是在欧洲阿尔卑斯山的旅游业，为农村生计做出了贡献，并依靠农业来保护景观。共生还有望增强社区的复原力，其概念是经济，社会，文化，政治和自然领域的结合。这些域的相互作用可能导致由锁定效应驱动的路径依赖关系，超出此范围，基本上不可能进行受控开发。在我们对奥地利阿尔卑斯山两个村庄的研究中，我们研究了长期发展途径如何通过路径依赖和锁定来影响社区适应力的领域。一份对1970年代人类与生物圈项目的文件分析，与最近进行的定性专家访谈相结合，使我们能够绘制出两个村庄的纵向照片，突出显示每个领域的优势和劣势。结论表明，社区的不同发展路径仍然导致类似的经济，结构和政治锁定，从而加剧了路径依赖性。