我国草原旅游研究进展

PROGRESS OF GRASSLAND TOURISM STUDY IN CHINA

本文通过对已有草原旅游文献的主要研究内容、研究地域、研究方法的分析,认为现有的草原旅游研究内容多集中于开发研究,地域集中,定性方法居多,尚处于起步阶段。今后草原旅游研究应进一步拓展和深化,加强总结,方法多样化,并关注几个重要问题:①草原旅游差异化的开发与科学文化内涵的提升;②草原旅游中相关利益群体的研究;③草原旅游市场与游客行为的研究;④草原旅游与环境保护的协调开发与可持续发展。

In recent years, much attention has been devoted to grassland tourism. This paper is to review the related research on grassland tourism with an emphasis on research contents, research region distribution and methodologies adopted. The focus of grassland tourism research includes four aspects. They are grassland tourism resources, grassland tourism development, grassland tourism impacts and other related grassland tourism research. A great number of papers discuss the development and resources of grassland tourism, accounting for over 50% of the whole papers. However, little attention has been paid to the research on the markets of grassland tourism, the designing of tourism products and the operational mechanism of grassland tourism. As to the research region, it mainly concentrates in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Hebei, Xinjiang and G-ansu provinces. Most of the studies use qualitative description as main methodology and emphasize on the expectation of future development; however, most papers lack the necessary assumptions and are far from strict mechanism study. Based on the analysis of research contents, research regions and methodologies of the existing papers, we can get the following conclusions. Grassland tourism research mainly focuses on the subject of development and concentrates in certain regions; qualitative description is the commonly used method; the whole research is still in the preliminary stage, Therefore, studies on grassland tourism should be further widened and deepened with review being strengthened and methods being diversified. In the future, four key issues should be given special care. 1） The differentl development and the advancement of scientific and cultural connotation of grassland tourism; 2） Study on relative stakeholders of grassland tourism; 3） Study on tourism market and visitors＇ behavior; and 4） Study on the sustainable development of grassland tourism.