Development Characteristics of China’s Tourism Geography

China’s tourism geography community is one of the leading countries in the world. As an emerging sub-discipline, tourism geography has developed so rapidly and achieved remarkable results. Its experience is worthy of our careful analysis and summary.

(1) The tourism geography community has always grasped the main direction of tourism geography serving the national economy, given full play to the applied characteristics of tourism geography, closely followed the theme of my country's tourism development and construction, and proactively Undertaken a variety of scientific research tasks at different levels and types, completed a large number of scientific research reports with high practical value, made important contributions to the development of my country's tourism industry, and improved the status of tourism geography. The expansion of tourism application research in geography also promotes the construction and development of geography itself.

(2) The tourism geography community has always placed tourism development practice and theoretical summary in an important position, actively engaged in tourism development practice, paid attention to multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary synthetic research, and focused on integrating theoretical knowledge. into real productivity. Many theoretical ideas developed in practice and tested through practice have laid a relatively solid foundation for the sustainable development of tourism geography.

(3) Practice has created a large number of tourism geography professionals. The guidance and support of the older generation of tourism geographers has promoted the growth of young scholars, allowing the tourism geography community to quickly form an inclusive A ladder-shaped team structure including academic leaders and backbones of senior, middle-aged and young people.

Looking forward to the 21st century, human society will enter the era of knowledge economy, and tourism, as a symbol of improving the quality of human life, will have greater development. The World Tourism Organization (WTO) predicts that China will become the world's largest tourist country by 2020, and my country'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 show its talents on the broad stage of tourism, and further improve its theoretical system.