What is the purpose of studying tourism geography in China? What's the point?

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 characteristics of tourism geographical environment and tourism resources in China and various tourist regions, which are the basis of China's tourism growth, and to fully understand the current situation of tourism growth in China and its regions. 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. The course of China Tourism Geography is a compulsory course for the self-taught students majoring in tourism management and hotel management in higher education, and it also takes into account the needs of setting up the course of China Tourism Geography for the self-taught students majoring in tourism. This course is a compulsory course for tourism management major, and it is a professional theoretical course with certain basic theory and knowledge content. Based on the tourism elements and spatial characteristics that truly reflect the tourism geographical environment in China, it studies various tourism resources in China, the geographical environment and geographical characteristics of the growing tourism industry in China, the theoretical knowledge of tourism geographical division in China and the landscape of major tourist areas from the perspective of tourism geography. This course aims to meet the actual needs of tourism development and the needs of tourism professional teaching. Candidates for self-taught tourism management major should be familiar with the types and characteristics of natural tourism resources and humanistic tourism resources, as well as typical scenic spots in China, understand the principles of China's tourism geographical division, master the geographical overview of nine first-class tourist areas in China and the characteristics of their respective tourist sub-areas, and be familiar with the distribution and characteristics of major tourist resources in China provinces and cities, so as to make a preliminary comparison of the overall advantages, current characteristics, future development trends and major scenic spots of China and its tourist areas.