Development characteristics of Chinese and foreign tourism geography

The development characteristics of tourism geography in China are: developing on the road of "discipline with task"; In the process of development, it will still be negatively affected by the changing old system; Focus on regional socio-economic resources and tourism development; Combining theoretical research with practical research;

The interdisciplinary cooperative research on tourism geography in China is underdeveloped: the basic concepts of tourism are seriously confused, the research horizon is still not wide enough, the research methods are simple and traditional, and there are many descriptive and low-level repetitive work. The research on tourism geography in China began at the end of 1979, when the Institute of Geography of China Academy of Sciences established the Department of Tourism Geography.

China's tourism geography is one of the leading countries in the world. As a new branch of chorography, tourism geography can develop Taoist exhibitions so quickly and achieve excellent results, and its experience deserves our good analysis and summary.

(1) The field of tourism geography has always grasped the main direction of tourism geography serving the national economy, given full play to the application characteristics of tourism geography, closely followed the theme of China's tourism development and construction, took the initiative to undertake various scientific research tasks at different levels and types, and completed a large number of scientific research reports with high practical value, which made important contributions to the development of China's tourism industry and improved the status of tourism geography. The expansion of geography tourism application research has also promoted the construction and development of geography itself.

(2) Tourism geography has always put tourism development practice and theoretical summary in an important position, actively engaged in tourism development practice, paid attention to multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary synthesis research, and paid attention to transforming theoretical knowledge into practical productivity. Many theoretical innovations developed and tested in practice have laid a solid foundation for the sustainable development of tourism geography.

(3) Practice has created a large number of tourism geography professionals, and the support and support of the older generation of tourism geographers has promoted the growth of young scholars, which has formed a trapezoidal team structure of old, middle-aged and young people, including academic leaders and backbone forces.

Looking forward to 2 1 century, human society will enter the era of knowledge economy, and tourism, as a symbol to measure the improvement of human life quality, will have greater development. The World Tourism Organization (WTO) predicts that by 2020, China will become the largest tourist country in the world, and China's tourism industry has a bright future. Tourism geography should carry forward the tradition of integrating theory with practice, practice extensively, be brave in innovation, continue to display its talents on the broad stage of tourism, and further improve its theoretical system.