Abstract：From a geographical point of view tourism consists of three major components. They are: firstly, the tourist generating regions; secondly, the tourist destination regions; and finally, the routes travelled between these two sets of locations. Therefore, ten broad topic areas can be thought as constituting the major components of the geography of tourism. 1. the conditions and geographical background of tourist generation 2. the beha-vioural law or tourists 3. the tourist flows forecasting 3. the tourist flows forecasting 4. the transit routes 5. the evaluation of tourist resources 6. the capacity of tourist environment 7. the tourist regionalization 8. the tourist planning 9. the impact of tourism 10. the map of tourism.
