What is tourism geography? What is its research object and content?

Tourism geography is a subject that studies the relationship between human tourism and geographical environment, also known as entertainment geography. Tourism geography refers to sightseeing, and entertainment geography includes entertainment, which is a broad sense of tourism geography. Both are branches of human geography.

Tourism geography is not only closely related to many branches of geography, but also permeated with sociology, folklore, archaeology, history, architecture, landscape architecture and economics, so it is also a marginal discipline.

The main contents of tourism geography research include: the origin of tourism and its geographical background, the regional distribution and movement law of tourists, the classification, evaluation, protection and development of tourism resources, the layout and construction planning of tourist areas (spots), the design of tourism divisions and tourist routes, and the influence of tourism development on the formation of regional economic complexes.

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The study of modern tourism geography began in the 1920s. The Relationship between Recreational Activities and Land Use published by mcmurry is regarded as the first paper of modern tourism geography. As early as 1935, British geographer Brown suggested that geographers should pay more attention to the study of tourism.

He, James, Carlson, etc. This paper discusses the influence of the differences in local natural resources, development foundation and settlement composition on the development of tourism, determines the tourism form and its economic value, and expounds the significance of tourism form and tourism facilities.

In the 1940s, Eiselin and Desai analyzed the tourist flow. In 1950s, the geographer Hahn of the Federal Republic of Germany classified the types of tourist destinations in Germany from the aspects of tourists' nature, stay time and seasonal changes. However, during this period, the vast majority of tourism geography works mainly described some tourist attractions, or discussed the economic significance of tourism in a general sense, and rarely discussed the basic theory of tourism geography.

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Baidu encyclopedia-tourism geography