Abstract:

In response to the current situation in which the theoretical study on tourism geography is relatively weak, this article has pointed out that the major way to extricate us from this dilemma is to clarify the core research topics in tourism geography, follow up the current methodological turn, and keep up with the new phenomenon in tourism geography. Evolutionary economic geography, which has emerged as a powerful explanatory paradigm, explains the long-term change in human-environment interaction of tourism from a dynamic perspective. However, in terms of methodology, EEG is essentially a process study which is an effective way for theoretical construction. Therefore, interpreting the development of tourism destination and the change of tourist behavior through process studies may be deemed as a new attempt to build up the theory of tourism geography. On these grounds, the paper constructs the theoretical framework of tourism geography, using the main elements of tourism system as the basic research subjects, and the process studies as the core research approach. Based on that, we will eventually come up with literature, models, prediction and mechanism relevant to tourism geography.

Key words: tourism geography, process studies, evolutionary economic geography, theoretical construction

摘要：

针对目前旅游地理学中基础理论研究薄弱的现状,本文系统地梳理了国内外有关旅游地理学理论建构及演化经济地理学相关文献后发现,过程研究是一种建立理论的有效研究路径,过程研究在旅游地理研究中的应用,从认识论层面强调从时间维度来观察旅游景观演化现象的重要性,从方法论层面强调以事件发展导向及逻辑推理为核心的理论归纳的重要性。旅游地理研究应该加强过程研究方法的运用,努力形成与旅游地理本身相关的故事、模型、预测和机制。

关键词: 旅游地理学, 过程研究, 演化经济地理学, 理论建构