The ultimate goal of tourism geography research is

The ultimate goal of tourism geography research is to promote the development of tourism and social economy.

The meaning of tourism geography: tourism geography is a subject that studies the relationship between human tourism and geographical environment, also known as entertainment geography. This concept was put forward by Canadian geographer Wolfe.

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.

A brief history of development: There are many written records about tourism activities in China ancient literature, and even there are monographs about tourism. For example, Notes on Water Classics and Travels of Xu Xiake. China's local chronicles also contain rich classical tourist materials.

The significance and purpose of tourism geography;

Geographical environment is the material basis of tourism attraction and the carrier of various tourism activities.

However, China is a vast country with obvious regional differences in geographical environment. Therefore, it is necessary for tourism professionals to have a clear understanding of the foundation of tourism growth in China, the tourism geographical environment and the characteristics of tourism resources in China and other tourist areas, and fully understand the current situation of tourism growth in China and its region.

This will affect whether we can give full play to the advantages of tourism resources and tourism geographical environment and form a big problem of unique tourism attraction, which is also one of the reasons why China Tourism Geography course is offered in tourism higher vocational colleges.