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The Output and Impact Assessment of International Tourism Academic Papers of Scholars from Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan―Based on the Statistical Analysis of SSCI Tourism Papers from 2001 to 2014
Lingyun ZHANG, Jie JIN, Yuting HUANG, Yakun ZHANG
Tourism and Hospitality Prospects, 2017, 1(3): 8-31.   https://doi.org/10.12054/lydk.bisu.22
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After more than 30 years of development, China’s tourism academic research has begun to take shape, and tourism academic community is getting stronger day by day . With the rise of China's tourism industry, the Asia Pacific region plays a more and more important role in the tourism industry in the world. The academic exchanges of tourism scholars among Chinese mainland and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are becoming more and more frequent, at the same time, their tourism academic research has attracted more and more attention from their international peers. To examine and evaluate the influence of scholars from Chinese mainland and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan on international tourism academic circles in a more comprehensive and systematic way, Weanalized the tourism papers which were wrote by Chinese scholars and were published in the SSCI international academic journals during the period of 2001~2014. Thus, it can add a new dimension and a reference system for the evaluation of China's tourism academic community, as reviewing and prospecting the current situation and future trend of our tourism academic research with the view of internationalization.

The Road to Prosperity:Tourism Informal Employment of The Tibetan―Research on the Employment Situation of the Tibetan Surrounding Qinghai Lake
Wei GUO, Weidong HUANG, Min KOU, Shufeng LIAO
Tourism and Hospitality Prospects, 2017, 1(3): 39-50.   https://doi.org/10.12054/lydk.bisu.20
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The Chinese government pays much more attention all the time to the development of the province of Tibet and Qinghai, trying to increase the native’s income. In order to achieve this target, the central government must appropriate great financial subsidies each year to the local government of Tibet and Qinghai. So this development way is unsustainable. The suitable way to solve the problem is to increase the employment of Tibetans. The traditional paid - wage employment is not fit for Tibetans because of its characteristics of geographical environment and economical conditions and way of life and educational level. The paper aims to find a new answer to the present questions. First, the paper uses the official data to estimate the number of informal employment and tourism informal employment of Tibetans in Qinghai, pointing out the features of informal employment of tourism. On this basis, the paper takes advantage of the investigation to the Tibetans around Qinghai Lake, describing the categories, features and general principle of informal employment of tourism of Tibetans. The paper puts forward three hypotheses: firstly, tourism informal employment of Tibetans is fit for the economic conditions, geographical environment of Qinghai, Tibetan education level, cultural tradition and way of life. Secondly, tourism informal employment is the effective way to increase Tibetan income. Thirdly, informal employment can be much more easily developed in tourism industry in Qinghai at low costs. In the end, the paper gives some policy suggestions in detail which can do great help to the local government.

Study on Cruise Lines’ Environmental Behavior and Differences Based on FoEI Credit Rating
Ruihong SUN, Xinliang YE, Hong XU, Yu FENG
Tourism and Hospitality Prospects, 2017, 1(3): 51-64.   https://doi.org/10.12054/lydk.bisu.27
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Cruise ships have generated lots of waste during their ocean sailing and daily operations and caused environmental pollutions, which will continue accumulating and increasing due to their long time operations in specific areas. Out of the external pressure and their own social responsibility, cruise lines have already adopted positive environmental behavior to reduce cruise pollution and impacts. In order to encourage and urge cruise lines to improve their operation, environmental behavior credit rating has been introduced into environmental management as an effective tool, in which the cruise environmental credit assessment carried out by international organizations "Friends of the Earth"( FoEI ) is of international influence. This article selectes the data of cruise environmental behavior credit rating from 2011-2016 Cruise Ship Report Card released and published by FoEI, analyzes cruise company's environmental performance, and finds that the environmental behavior of different cruise companies and typical cruise line’s environmental behavior in different regions were of great differences. The article notes the differences in business goals of cruise lines and the pursuit of shareholder value leads to differences in their environmental behavior, and differences in laws and regulations, ecological environment and economic development among countries and regions through which cruise ships sail has led to various environmental behavior of cruise ships in regional different regions. Finally, the paper suggestes that cruise lines should adapt themselves to improving their environment behavior and keep their efforts continuously and more consistently on the global scale. At the same time external forces such as the government's policy incentives, the broad participation of social organizations, the public's responsible consumption and fair commentary, will create a favorable atmosphere for cruise lines to improve their own environmental behavior and promote each other so as to establish a social governance structure geared towards environmental optimization.

China Outbound Tourism Research: A Literature Review
Xiangyan LIU, Yiyi JIANG, Xingyang LYU
Tourism and Hospitality Prospects, 2017, 1(3): 65-79.   https://doi.org/10.12054/lydk.bisu.24
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The rapid development of China outbound tourism has attractedacademic attention in recent years. This article concludes the main streams of academic researcheson China outbound tourism. In the pool of academic articles published from 1994 to 2013, 118 sample articles were eventually picked outaccording to their representativeness in research content. Altogether, these literatures are categorized into four research areas: China outbound tourism development overview, China outbound tourism market, China outbound travel industry, and government regulations & policy tendencies. Following this classification, articles in each area are studied respectively in detail, and then the main contents and under-studied issues are summarized. At last, theimplicationsfor future research are also put forward. Hopefully, it will shed some light to the related studies on China outbound tourism. As to the future studies, market studies will continue to be the largest branch. Since the government will maintain its important role in the development of China outbound tourism, studies on government regulations and policy tendencies will grow with the administrative practice. However, the development overview will be given less academic attention. The industry and enterprise studies are unlikely to thrive for its theoretical indistinctiveness.In general, the future research tends to be more specific through multidisciplinary approaches.

Retrospect and Prospect of the Research on Golden Week Holiday Tourism in China
Man Yang, Zehua LIU, Yu Zhang, Yi Zheng, Jinhe Zhang
Tourism and Hospitality Prospects, 2017, 1(3): 80-99.   https://doi.org/10.12054/lydk.bisu.25
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In the past 15 years, Chinese scholars have made abundant achievements in the research of golden week holiday tourism. This study screened 1921 articles retrieved from CNKI and chose 61 high-level papers as research samples. Adopted bibliometric method, statistically analyzed the source of literature journals, research topics, annual trends, research methods, case studies and research contents, it was found that Chinese scholars’ achievements in the research of golden week holiday tourism were mainly published on three kinds of periodicals: tourism, university journals and geography. “Tourism Tribune”, as an authority of China's tourism research journal, also paid the most attention on this field. Scholars mainly focused on three research fields: the sustainable development of holiday tourism, the influence of holiday system on tourism system, holiday tourism market and tourism flow research. The researches on sustainable development of golden week holiday tourism have had a decreasing trend and the influence of holiday system on tourism system, holiday tourism market and tourism flow researches have gradually increased in recent years. On the research methods, qualitative research papers inclined to reduce gradually while quantitative research papers increased gradually. Some of the qualitative research papers adopted normative analysis by establishing correlation index or theoretical model. In quantitative research, the main ways to collect data were the official channels and the questionnaire survey, and the Internet and the stock market also became the data source; the main analysis methods were index analysis, mathematical statistics analysis and model building. From the aspect of spatial scale, the case of empirical research was given priority to cities and scenic spots, followed by the national, provincial scale or multi-city regional scale; and the research emphasis also differed with different spatial scales. Overall, the results of this study can objectively reflect the current state of the research achievements of China’s golden week holiday tourism and has certain enlightening significance to such studies in China. In the future, it can be further explored from the following contents and points of view: the system design and improvement of holiday system; golden week holiday tourism research from the social, cultural and environmental aspects; strengthen the various types and all levels of tourism destination research; strengthen the research on the characteristics and prediction of holiday tourism flow; the research on outbound tourism flow in holiday,etc.

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