对旅游学研究对象定位与学科地位的思考

On the Orientations of Objects and Positioning of Discipline Tourism Science

在概括了国内外关于旅游学研究对象主要观点的基础上,从学科层次角度对旅游学研究对象进行了系统考察,认为旅游学是一门研究旅游活动良性运行及协调发展条件与机制的综合性具体社会科学。在此基础上,对旅游学科在社会科学中的地位进行了探讨,指出在社会科学体系中属于单科性的应用性社会科学。

Based on the summarization about the main viewpoints to the study object of tourism science briefly at home and abroad, this paper analyses the object of tourism science in view of discipline construct. The author points that tourism is comprehensive and concrete social science studying conditions and mechanism of maintain effective movement and coordinated growth of tourism activities, which belongs to comprehensive, theoretical and fundamental science in tourism system. Then the position of tourism is probed. In view of social science, the tourism is a social science specializing in tourism phenomena, which belongs to mono-discipline and applied subject in social science system.