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学号 102545018
分类号
密级
毕业论文
文献翻译
院(系)名称
国际学院
专业名称
工商管理
学生姓名
陈琪
指导教师
陈括
2014 年 2 月 25 日
TOURISM IN CHINA:
A REVIEW OF RESEARCH IN LEADING JOURNALS
1. INTRODUCTION
China is now indisputably one of the great world powers, and is growing at aspectacular rate. This growth really took off (and reached double figures) following the country’s 1978 ‘open door’ policy. One of the sectors with most potential to continue this trend, and which still has much to contribute, is tourism. Tourism is a rapidly growing sector of huge economic importance within the process of globalisation (Ma, Ryan & Bao, 2009),and has e a major source of economic activity, employment, tax revenue, e and foreign currency for many countries, including China. In China’s development towards a socialist market economy, tourism and travel have e a strategic industry (Xiao, 2006),with the country ing one of the most rapidly growing destinations as it moves from a planned to a market-driven economy, and with tourism emerging as a strategic activity for local development (Yang, Wall & Smith, 2008).
Despite its belated start, according to the World anization (UNWTO,2004), by 2020 China is expected to be the most popular tourist destination in the world,receiving 210 million foreign tourists, and to have the fourth highest number of outbound tourists, with 100 million Chinese travelling abroad. Total revenue generated by tourism will be 8-11% of the Chinese GDP. The fact is that China, with its huge size, ancient civilisation,long history and diversity of cultures and ethnicities, possesses highly distinctive tourist resources that are characterised by their variety, abundance, antiquity and exclusivity (Liu &Wall, 2005). There may be no other country in the world like China, with so much diversity and so many unique places within its borders, as it has so many local cultures and ethnicities, customs and folklores (Wang, 1997).
Tourism has been seen in China as plementary tool w