Principles of Travel Planning

Author: Lu Lin (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: This book is a textbook for tourism majors in higher education institutions. It incorporates the latest theories and methods of tourism planning, systematically elaborates on the fundamental theories and general methods of tourism planning, as well as the specific content of tourism planning for different types of tourism destinations. It also explores the implementation and management issues in tourism planning, which are highly emphasized in international planning but insufficiently addressed in domestic planning. The book strives to reflect the concept of sustainable tourism development in its content, focusing on the commonalities of basic principles and methods of tourism planning and the individualities of general paradigms at different levels of tourism planning. While fully explaining traditional theories, it also incorporates new theories. In terms of its structure, it adopts the basic model of "Tourism Planning Theory + Tourism Planning Methods." Additionally, it integrates numerous practical cases to highlight the operationality and applicability of the textbook. This book is suitable for students and postgraduate researchers in tourism, geography, and planning majors at colleges and universities, as well as for researchers, decision-makers, planners, and management personnel in the tourism industry.