中国旅游地理研究:在他乡与故乡之间

Tourism geography in China: Between hometown and alien land

旅游地理学已经成为地理学一门相对独立的分支学科,也是地理学中发展最为迅速的分支学科之一。随着旅游地理研究的不断深入,在人文地理研究"文化转向"与"社会转向"的大背景下,旅游地理研究的"地理味"似乎越来越少,甚至被批评为"去地理化""在奔往他乡的路上忘了故乡"。在此背景下,中国地理学会旅游地理专业委员会于2016年12月在广州中山大学进行研讨,反思与总结旅游地理过去30年的研究问题与学术贡献、学科特征以及如何实现代际转向。结论认为:(1)旅游地理学并未真正远离故乡,只是地理学本身在发展与变化,旅游地理学要更好地适应新时期地理学的发展;(2)旅游地理学的核心特征是包容与综合,不仅要有逻辑实证主义,还要有结构主义、人文主义等范式,其核心研究问题应该是流动性、空间尺度转换与人地关系;(3)旅游地理学者的代际转向已经不可避免,在学者们师承传递的背景下,旅游地理学出现了研究问题、学科认知和理论认知的转型,旅游地理学应该建立引领性问题体系,采取"合纵连横"的策略来壮大学术共同体。

Tourism geography is increasingly to be one of geography branch disciplines. However, with the background of ＂culture turn＂ and ＂social turn＂ in human geography research, tourism geography is criticized for losing ＂the flavor of geography＂, or ＂de- geographization tendency＂, ＂forgetting the hometown on the way rushing to alien land＂. With these concerns, The Tourism Geographies Commission of China Geography Association organizes a seminar to reflect the tourism geographies research in the past decades, to discuss the academic contribution of tourism geography, the characteristics and the generational transition of tourism geography. The conclusions include： （1） Tourism geographies is not far away from home, but the hometown： geography itself is changing. Tourism geography must adapt to the geography development in the new era; （2） The key characteristics of tourism geography are comprehensive and inclusive. We should persist in not only logical positivism, but also constructionism and humanism paradigm. The key research questions include mobility, spatial scale transfer and human-place relation; （3） Generation transition in tourism geographers is inevitable, not only in the way of teacher-student relation transition, but also research question, disciplinary identification and theoretical shift. Tourism geography should have their own series of research questions, and generations of geographers work together to facilitate the academic community.