南京大学旅游地理学的历史回顾与研究展望

RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT: TOURISM GEOGRAPHY IN NANJING UNIVERSITY

旅游地理学是一门关于研究地表旅游现象的人地关系作用规律及其规划实践的科学,是地理学衍生的具有相对独立专业知识体系的分支学科。南京大学以及中国旅游地理学的发展最早可追溯到任美锷1940年在《地理学报》发表的《自然风景与地质构造》一文。改革开放后,南京大学旅游地理经历两个阶段:1979—2002年,旅游地理深植于传统优势的地理学科;2002至今,旅游地理向纵深发展,在国内外核心期刊发表论文600多篇。在《地理学报》、《地理研究》、《地理科学》等地理学权威期刊上,南京大学发表旅游论文数量位居国内所有高校与科研院所的首位。重点研究领域有旅游地理学的基础理论与方法、旅游资源评价与区域旅游开发、旅游环境变化与旅游人地关系等三个方面。篇末展望了旅游地理学中旅游资源评价、旅游市场分析、旅游空间结构、区域旅游影响、旅游规划理论、旅游地理范式等基本问题的研究趋势。

Tourism geography is also a sub-disciplinary branch of geography with relatively independent professional knowledge system.The birth of tourism geography in China and in Nanjing University can be traced back to Ren Mei-e＇s article published in Acta Geographica Sinica in 1940 with name of ＂Natural Scenery and Its Geological Structure＂.After the reform and opening,the development of tourism geography in Nanjing University can be divided to two phases.From 1979 to 2002,tourism geography embedded in the traditional advantageous discipline of geography.Many old geographers recognized this new discipline and acted as pioneers.Scientific papers published in this phase contributed a lot in the foundation of tourism geography.These new papers mainly focused on evaluation,zoning and exploitation of tourism resources,environmental capacity of tourism destinations,the relationships between tourism and land management,the relationships between tourism and environment,and so on.From 2002 to now,tourism geography in Nanjing University have developed in depth either in coverage of basic issues in tourism geography,or in originality and innovations in tourism geography.In this phase,key research fields and subjects include the basic theories and means of tourism geography,evaluations of tourism resources and regional tourism development,tourism and environment changes,man-land relationships in tourism geography and so on.So far,the tourism geography research teams have published more than 600 academic papers at home and abroad in core journals.An academic paper reveals that Nanjing University stands first among all the universities and research institutes in China.At the end,six basic questions and their research tendency in tourism geography are discussed.