What is the industry of tourism planning and design?

Domestic and foreign scholars have different views on the concept of tourism planning derived from regional planning theory.

Murphy 1985: Tourism planning is about predicting and regulating changes within the system to promote orderly development and thereby expand the social, economic and environmental benefits of the open process, so planning is a continuum The process of operation can achieve a certain goal or balance several goals.

Getz 1987: The process of seeking the optimal contribution of tourism to human welfare and environmental quality based on investigation and evaluation.

Gunn 1988: Tourism planning is a dynamic, feedback process that determines appropriate future actions through a series of choices. Future actions not only refer to the formulation of policies, but mainly the realization of goals.

Chinese scholars: assumptions and plans for the future development of tourism and related industries. Its goal is to allocate and utilize all tourism resources as reasonably and effectively as possible, as well as tourism reception capacity, transportation capacity, and the human, material and financial resources that society may provide to the tourism industry, so that tourists can perfectly realize their tourism purposes and thereby obtain the development of tourism industry. economic, social and environmental benefits.

Higher Education Edition: Based on the survey and evaluation of tourism resources, based on the attributes and characteristics of tourism resources and the development laws of tourist destinations, and based on social, economic and cultural development trends, the overall layout of tourism resources is carried out, and Carry out the overall layout of tourism resources, design and specific implementation of project technical plans. Among them, economy and technology are prerequisites, and the relationship between tourism development and environment and tourism resource protection is the prerequisite.