西方事件及事件旅游研究的概念、内容、方法与启发(上)

On the Concept,Content and Method of Research on Event and Event Tourism (E & ET) in Western Countries and Its Enlightenment

事件及事件旅游(Event＆EventTourism,简称E＆ET)已经成为西方旅游研究的热点之一。在研究大量文献的基础上,作者对西方主要国家事件及事件旅游的研究情况和学科发展进行了系列介绍。全部介绍共分6个部分。本文是第1至第3部分。第1部分(引言)通过对互联网检索资料的统计,分析了事件及事件旅游的发展简况;第2部分介绍了事件及事件旅游的研究进展,对事件及事件旅游的早期文献、目前研究概况进行了介绍。第3部分介绍了事件及事件旅游研究的基础,包括事件及事件旅游的基本概念、事件的分类、事件策划和事件旅游规划的框架。针对非典型性肺炎(SARS)这一对我国旅游业造成重大影响的突发性危机事件,文章还介绍了国内外相关研究文献的概况。

Event and Event Tourism (E & ET) have become one of hot topics in tourism research in western countries.Based on a number of literatures,the authors intend to recommend the general situation and future trends and gives a series of introduction to it.The paper is composed of six parts.This paper is about part 1 to part 3.Part 1 gives an analysis of the E & ET's development data from Internet.Part 2 introduces the E & ET research process and its early literatures as well as its present research.Part 3 gives the basic definitions,types,and planning as E & ET's fundamental concepts.As the outbreak of SARS has had severe impact on China's tourism industry,the paper is going to give a simple introduction to the literatures related to such risky tourist event as SARS in Part 3 and Part 4.