Abstract：There are a lot of changes happened in the first 10 years of the 21st century, such as the status of tourism industry is elevated, the regional tourism development environment is continuously optimized. Compared with its predecessors, both in the external environment and its industrial practice, the regional tourism development have shown a series of new features. To summarize the focus, achievements and facing problems of regional tourism during this period from the perspective of academic research, which is not only able to clarify the areas of tourism on the contribution of the tourism academic research and achievements, but also for the new situation from the theoretical response change, guide the development of tourism practices, the implementation of the "twelve-five" tourism planning and even its sustainable development of regional tourism is of great significance. The literatures of regional tourism research in the first 10 years of 21st century are analyzed and evaluated by using Information Analysis Method. The results show that the current research on this domain are mainly focused on five aspects, which are competition and cooperation of regional tourism, regional tourism planning, tourism industry, regional tourism competitiveness, regional tourism system and its spatial structure. There are significant correlations between the contents and its characteristics of regional tourism development in this period, the characteristics of "Practice to promote academy" is still more obvious, but the aspects of theoretical construction of regional tourism has not made significant progress. At the same time, from the viewpoint of research method, there exist two kinds of significant trends--lack of standard quantity research method or pay much attention to mathematical method. Finally, the article pointed out that the study of regional tourism continue to follow the path to service its industry on the basis of actual, real problems from the extract with the academic value of the theoretical issues and realize the tradition of research and innovation, promoting regional tourism research progress and the regional tourism academic development is inevitable.
马晓龙. 区域旅游研究十年:进展与评价[J]. 人文地理, 2012, 27(2): 32-37,150.
MA Xiao-long. A STUDY ON ITS PROGRESS AND EVALUATION OF REGIONAL TOURISM IN THE FIRST 10 YEARS, 21ST CENTURY. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2012, 27(2): 32-37,150.
