A Study On Feasibility Of The Development Of Backpacker Tourism In China

The driving force of the development of tourism always comes down to the two aspects of supply and demand: one is the market force formed by the demands of the tourists; the other is the possible tourism products in the practical technology conditions. As a new form of budget tourism, backpacker tourism can satisfy customers' distinguished demands effectively, adopt technological innovations continually, integrate all systematic factors and put forward the sustainable development of tourism, thus, in last 20 years, this tourism form develops quickly in the whole world and a market of considerable scale has already be formed. While in China, at one hand, there are seldom studies on backpacker tourism; at the other hand, backpacker tourism is just starting, the government, tourism destinations and related tourism industries don't pay attention to this new form of tourism.With substantive studies on documents at home and abroad and daily interviews with the backpackers, this paper analysis the current situation, strengths and opportunities of the development of backpacker tourism in China and thus concludes its feasibility comprehensively, that is, the vigorous development of backpacker in China is of great economic, ecological and social significances to tourism destinations of our country, especially the vast regions of middle and west.At last, on the basis of the deep analysis above, the paper tries to put forward some operable suggestions practically to promote the full growth of backpacker tourism in China by drawing the effective experiences of some countries in which the development of backpacker tourism is already very mature, like Australia.