Chinese Tourism Culture

Author: Song Caiyi et al.
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: With the development of China's tourism industry, people have put forward more and higher demands for tourism knowledge. However, so far, there have been relatively few works on Chinese tourism culture. Despite various reasons, it is undeniable that to a large extent, it is the profound and extensive Chinese tourism culture that has been and will continue to drive the development of China's tourism industry. Therefore, we have no reason, nor should we allow this phenomenon to persist. This book is an attempt. Based on a comprehensive review of existing research on Chinese tourism culture, we propose our own views: First, we believe that traditional Chinese culture is the foundation of Chinese tourism culture. Chinese tourism culture is an important part of traditional Chinese culture, and without traditional culture, there can be no tourism culture. Conversely, Chinese tourism culture has its own unique content and development trajectory and cannot be equated with traditional Chinese culture. The process of the development and growth of Chinese tourism culture is also the process of traditional Chinese culture becoming more diverse and rich. Second, the content of Chinese tourism culture broadly includes several major parts such as tourism literature, cuisine, religion, folklore, architecture, art, and leisure. Among these, tourism literature is an independent and self-contained part of Chinese tourism culture, and it has developed the most completely and maturely within the entire system of Chinese tourism culture. The close relationship between cuisine, religion, folklore, architecture, and art culture and tourism activities often makes it difficult to determine which aspects should be treated as tourism culture and which should be considered pure traditional culture. For this reason, we start from the perspective of aspects most closely related to tourism, striving to define the content of Chinese tourism culture in a way that neither deviates from the fundamental essence of Chinese culture in general nor fails to reflect the existence of this cultural form.