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| A REVIEW AND PROSPECT OF INNOVATION RESEARCH IN TOURISM OF CHINA |
| JIANG Jin-bo, GAO Juan |
| School of Economics and Commerce, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China |
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Abstract With China's reform and opening up in the last 30 years, the tourism industry had risen to a new level where innovation and endogenous driving force became the key to a high-speed development. Therefore, the research on tourism innovation became a hot spot of research in China. This paper attempts to use statistical analysis of literature information to make a research summary of the recent tourism innovation studies in China scientifically. Based on the review of related research literatures, the authors consider that China's tourism innovation researches show some characteristics, such as late start but rapid development, obvious stages, high-level papers growing too slowly, especially the outstanding of regional enterprise innovation research and tourism innovation's elements research, theoretical research needing to be strengthened. China had got some initial achievements in the following aspects, theoretical and practical study field especially about the systems and institutional innovations, theoretical innovation, regional tourism innovation and tourism enterprises innovation. However, compared with similar studies in the west, there are still blanks in the research areas. For example, the research vision is too narrow and the research approach is too monotonous, especially, there is no systematic study on China's tourism industry innovation development and lack survey on China's tourism innovation. Therefore, future studies need to base on the innovation law of China's tourism industry, broaden the vision, strengthen theoretical support and adopt advanced technological methods so as to change the key study area into the preponderant one. At the same time, the cultural tourism innovation research, Chinese-style organization management innovation research and its applied research should be focused on as the emerging areas. Finally, based on the international trends of innovation research and China's actual needs, the authors forecasted several important research issues which are needed to be further researched, such as the tourism knowledge management and knowledge spillovers, tourism Innovation clusters, tourism innovation process and dynamic mechanism, service innovation, technological innovation and the evaluation of tourism innovation.
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Received: 30 September 2010
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2011, Vol. 26 
