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| RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT OF STUDY ON RESORT LIFE CYCLE |
| YANG Xiao-zhong, LU Lin |
| Department of Geography, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China |
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Abstract Resort life cycle is a basic problem in the course of resort evolution, and has become one of hot points which scholars pay attention to. This thesis is divided into four parts. In first part, the author gives overall description on research about resort life cycle oversea, which involves the divide of phase, the characteristics of phase, the influential factors of cycle evolution and applying evaluation of theory. The second part analyzes domestic research progress of resort life cycle. In the third part, the author compares differences and similarities of domestic and oversea research. As far as research time is concern, foreign scholars have begun to give concern over resort life cycle since W. Christaller gave concept og resort life cycle for the first time in 1963, while domestic research started from early 1990's, later nearly 30 year than foreign research. From the perspective of research content, case study is emphasized by foreign scholars. Most foreign resorts has been in the latter half stage of life cycle, and re-position is at present foreign research focus; most domestic resorts has been in the former half stage of life cycle, and re-development is at present domestic research focus.
In the end, the author puts forward several viewpoints about new trend of resort life cycle study, these conclusions are suggested as follows:①Scope of research region. With the development of regional tourism, scope of research region should be not confined in scenic area, but should be extended to larger tourism region. ②Influential factor. The former research results have suggested that there exist many influential factors in resort life cycle, but systematic and emphatic analysis on influential factors should be strengthened, in particular, the size of affecting extent of important factors should be measured. ③Measure index. It may adversely affect sustainable development of some tourism areas to use the number of tourist as Measure index of life cycle, so there is a need to adopt different indexes corresponding to different tourism areas. ④Combined application of related theory. It is operationally weaker to uniquely apply resort life cycle theory to tourism area due to a number of influential factors of resort life cycle. Therefore, research of resort life cycle theory would be expanded and deepen if it is combined with other tourism theories, which is the new focus of further research.
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Received: 12 May 2003
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2004, Vol. 19 
