Travel History Notes

Author: Zou Shumei
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Based on extensive research in Chinese and foreign history, geography, folklore, local chronicles, biographies, and specialized works, as well as personal field investigations, this book takes tourism as its main thread, capturing major events and key figures in the development of tourism. Through stories, plots, and scenes, it allows readers to perceive the progression and evolution of tourism, gaining knowledge and enjoyment in a relaxed, leisurely, and enjoyable manner. It is a light-hearted book. Based on years of teaching, field investigations, and research, the author outlines the past and present of tourism through logical analysis and alignment with historical progress. Unlike historical texts, this book does not follow history everywhere, does not present every historical event, nor does it cite references to record, analyze, and examine every historical fact. Instead, it draws on extensive research in Chinese and foreign history, geography, folklore, local chronicles, biographies, specialized works, and personal field investigations, taking tourism as its main thread, capturing major events and key figures in the development of tourism, and using stories, plots, and scenes to allow readers to perceive the progression and evolution of tourism, gaining knowledge and enjoyment in a relaxed, leisurely, and enjoyable manner.