Why should we clarify the development history of tourism geography? What can we learn from it?

Geography is a subject that studies the relationship between human tourism and geographical environment, and geographical environment can promote the development of tourism.

Tourism geography is a new frontier discipline which aims at the development of tourism and studies the relationship between human tourism activities, geographical environment and social development. In China, the development history of tourism geography is not long, and the theoretical research and discipline system construction are still relatively weak. At the same time, tourism geography, as an applied discipline closely combined with tourism practice, is closely related to the needs of social development and its guiding role in social development. With the rapid development of the global economy and the rapid leap-forward development of China's tourism industry, the tourism demand of our people has been greatly stimulated, especially the arrival of knowledge economy and information age, which has provided good development opportunities and higher requirements for the research and development of contemporary tourism geography. At this time, in the face of the excellent situation, tourism geography education must not lose its way. While keen on the practical research of application development, we can't ignore the construction of basic theory, let alone give up its basic direction of geography.