大旅游产业及其发展的影响和效益——以甘肃省为例

Comprehensive tourism and its development impacts and benefits:A case study of Gansu Province

大旅游的产业特性决定了其经济、社会和生态等方面影响的广泛性和效应的综合性。本文论述了大旅游产业的内涵、特征和产业体系。以甘肃省为例,从发展大旅游产业的角度,通过理论和实证两方面,对大旅游产业促进欠发达地区优势资源开发和资源替代、产业替代的作用及其经济、社会和生态效益进行了评估;提出了大旅游产业是欠发达地区新的经济增长点,扩大就业的有效途径和重要渠道,城市化和可持续发展的新型驱动力等结论。

In order to satisfy the traveling demand which grows unceasingly and tends to be diversified and multilevel, the traveling industry chain is extending unceasingly and forming comprehensive tourism which has high interrelations with other industries and has multiple combined earnings. Comprehensive tourism is a kind of mature pattern of the tourism industrial development, which is broader and more comprehensive than the traditional tourism industriy in aspects of connotation. In this paper, the connotation, the characteristic and the industrial system of comprehensive tourism are discussed explicitly, especially from the viewpoint of the exploitation of advantageous resources, the resources substitution and the industrial substitution. Furthermore, the impacts, effects and benefits of comprehensive tourism industry are analyzed from both theoretical and empirical study, based on the case of Gansu Province. The authors emphasized in this paper that tourism can accelerate less-developed areas to win the multiple benefits in regional economy, society and ecology, as well as resources comprehensive utilization. Compared with traditional industry, comprehensive tourism has obvious advantages and prospects in regional development. In terms of theory, the comprehensive tourism industry imposes its impacts on the economy, the society and the ecology which are universal and multilevel, reflecting in three aspects： impacts on national economy, impacts on social development and impacts on environment. In terms of empirical study, on the basis of theoretical study, the data analysis of Gansu Province has been carried out, which showed that compre- hensive tourism, as a new high growing industry, had strong economical, social and ecological impacts in the province. The paper concluded that being an environment-friendly industry with multi-benefits and impacts, comprehensive tourism has the functions of driving regional economic development, increasing employment, mitigating ecological pressure, especially in the less-developed areas. Some policy suggestions have been made to the development of comprehensive tourism in a more scientific and effective way.