TOURISM STUDY SYSTEM: STRUCTURE, DECONSTRUCTION AND RECONSTRUCTION
ZHANG You-yin1,2, MA Yao-feng3, GU Jing2
1. China Tourism Academy, Beijing 100005, China;
2. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Beijing 100101, China;
3. College of Tourism and Environmental Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China
Abstract：Through system summarize the discipline nature of tourism science, this research deconstruction the current discipline system from two perspectives, which were independent discipline and cross discipline. Then it reconstructed the discipline system of tourism from the man-land perspective, and the man-land dualistic structure of tourism research system was analyzed in detail. From the result, it could be seen that, the current system of tourism research is mainly composed of tourism management, tourism geography, tourism economics and tourism sociology. Each major branch has several research directions. Among them, tourism management can be subdivided into tourism public management and tourism business management, and tourism public management could be further subdivided into the tourism service management, tourism industry management, tourism safety and crisis management, tourism regulations. Tourism business management could be further subdivided into hotel management, travel agency management, tourism human resource management, tourism scenic spot management and tourism electronic commerce management. The main research directions of tourism geography could be subdivided into tourism planning, tourism resources development, tourism flow, eco-tourism, tourism environment, tourism landscape. The main research directions of tourism economics include tourism trade, tourism industry economy, regional tourism economic, tourism marketing and tourism investment management. The main research directions of tourism sociology include tourism social impact, tourism culture, tourism social justice, tourism culture, tourism community to create.
