Travel geography

Author: Cui Yang / Zhou Lijun (editors)
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: "Tourism Geography" is an interdisciplinary subject between tourism studies and geography. It focuses on the relationship between tourists, tourism resources, tourism development, and the geographical environment, systematically elaborating on the fundamental theories, basic knowledge, and basic methods of tourism geography. The book is divided into nine chapters, including the basic issues of tourism geography, knowledge of tourists, and basic methods. The book is divided into nine chapters, covering the basic issues of tourism geography, the knowledge and mobility of tourists, the evaluation of tourism resources, the spatiotemporal role of tourist destinations, tourism transportation, tourism regionalization, tourism planning, the regional impact of tourism, as well as tourism maps and tourism information systems. The book is written with the aim of being systematic, comprehensive, scientific, and innovative, and it hopes that readers can grasp the basic framework of tourism geography, master fundamental theoretical knowledge and research methods through using this book. This book is suitable for undergraduate students of comprehensive universities, normal universities' geography departments, finance and economics universities, and tourism departments, as well as junior and senior high school students of related majors, as teaching materials and reference books. It can also serve as a reference book for researchers in tourism studies, geography, economics, sociology, and other related fields, as well as a self-study guide for avid tourism enthusiasts.