Chinese Tourism Geography (College Textbook for Tourism Management Majors in Higher Education Institutions)

Author: Luo Zhibo Zhang Shulin
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2000-09-21
Features: Tourism, as a increasingly thriving large-scale spatial and regional activity in modern human society, makes knowledge of tourism geography highly practical for both tourists and tourism professionals. For the study of tourism and tourism management, tourism geography is an indispensable applied discipline. This book is written based on the practical needs of cultivating tourism management professionals at the college level and above. Building on existing published works on Chinese tourism geography, this book takes tourism resources as its foundation and tourism source markets as its guidance, tourism geography's disciplinary characteristics and basic knowledge areas, aiming to provide more applicable and easily graspable Chinese tourism geography knowledge for the development of tourism activities and the management of the tourism industry in China. The book further clarifies the objectives and methods of learning and researching Chinese tourism geography, the basic nature of tourism resources, and the fundamental characteristics of Chinese tourism resources. It also strengthens the analysis of Chinese tourism source and tourist flow geography. Greater attention is paid to the clear and practical classification of tourism resources, as well as the reflection of the distribution patterns of tourism resources. The book also emphasizes the analysis of the tourism significance, functions, and values of various types of tourism resources. It strives to make the basic knowledge structure of Chinese tourism geography more clear and applicable, and to make Chinese tourism regions more rational and distinctive in their regional characteristics.