A Study On The Orientation And Strategies Of The Tourism Development In Tibet

Tourism is now the first industry over the world, and China is becoming one of the fastest tourism developing counties in the world. Tourism organizations have estimated that China will be the first tourism destination country within the coming 20 years globally. However, the western part of China is of vast area and with unique rich tourism resources, and will be the main staying power of developing tourism in the new century. In the recent years, tourism has been developing at a fast speed in the western region; the average speed of tourism development of the western region has surpassed that of the national level. However, at the meantime of a speedy tourism development, there are still some problems existed such as unchecked exploration of tourism resources without consideration of local economic conditions, with a wrong understanding of"omnipotent tourism or universal tourism", some provinces have tried to promote the other industries to develop buy means of the single-tourism development, in some places, every county applies for tourism projects and exploits tourism resources which lead to a serious consequences of destroying and waste of tourism resources, it has also wasted a great amount of money, human resources and material resources.Tibet is located in southwest part of the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau, the uniqueness and richness of tourism resources of Tibet is incomparable all over the world; its novelty, mysteriousness, roughness and primitiveness have always been attracting more and more tourists form home and abroad. Even so, compare with other regions, tourism development in Tibet is still facing many problems and shortcomings. Under the reality that the general economic level of Tibet is still lagged behind, the only way to realize the over-lapped development of Tibet economy is to uphold the development of the pillar industry and industries with local characteristics, in particular, the cost advantage of Tibet tourism economy needs to be fully brought into play and used in order to obtain comparative benefits.In Tibet, the regional economic conditions are comparatively poor, although the tourism resources are high-graded with great richness, the scale and degree of tourism development is restricted by the undeveloped regional economy. Especially, the unique ecological environment of Tibet demands even more requirements for the tourism development. In developing tourism in Tibet, the regional economy and regional conditions should be put in the first place, the grade value of tourism resources should be the secondary in consideration. In the thesis, it holds that the environmental protection has become a common issue of our human being along with the implementation of the sustainable development strategy over the world. As is known to all, because of its unique geographical location, environmental protection is especially important in Tibet. Tibet is the adjustment region of climate changes of the Northern Hemisphere, the changes of climate here will influence the climate changes of our country and even the Northern Hemisphere. Tibet is also a huge natural solid reservoir and the source of many Asian rivers. Meantime, Tibet has the richest biological species, including many kinds of wild animals and plants from the Frigid Zone to the Torrid Zone. The state of environment in Tibet will have not only a bearing to its own development, but also to the sustainable development of the whole country and even other regions of the world. Tourism development will inevitably lead to the contradiction of resource exploitation and protection. In the process of resolving this problem, we should give first priority to the environmental benefit with the economical benefit in the secondary place, under the circumstance of economical development, we should strengthen the environmental protection to realize a sustainable development of tourism in Tibet.This thesis tries to analyze the current situation of Tibet tourism, especially the promotive role of tourism development to the economy and the society; this thesis combines the cost and benefit analysis in order to explain theoretically and analyze practically the concept of Tibet eco-tourism, on that basis, some advices and ideas are put forward for the future development of Tibet eco-tourism.