Analysis On Tourism Research Development Mode And Rules From Domestic And Overseas

In the past decades, tourism research has developed rapidly along with tourism industry. Nowadays, tourism academy has formed a series of achievements. Researchers from different education background look into tourism from various angles and make great contributions to the development of tourism research. The various ideologies enrich tourism study and bring boom to the academy. However, tourism research is not mature enough to cope with the fast developing tourism industry, the increasingly complicated tourism phenomena and their negative effects, especially for the young tourism research in China. Thus, it is necessary to take other achievements for reference to open our mind and broaden our vision. This study is an attempt to compare tourism research from domestic and oversears by analyzing research trend, source discipline, main areas and hotspots and explore the development trend and rule of tourism research.With the help of Bibliometrics concept and relative soft wares, this paper conducts quantitative analysis of8,594English and10,243Chinese articles collected respectively from SSCI and CSSCI and also visualizes the results. After references reading and investigation, it is found that the number of tourism articles increases both in the globe and China; as to the source discipline, tourism research is heavily influenced by other disciplines like economics, geography and sociology, which is partly ascribed to researchers’ diverse education background; the main areas of tourism research concentrate on tourism economics, tourism geography, ecology and tourism management but international research takes on interdisciplinary trend; in terms of time, international research are more consistent and continuous than China.According to the above results, it can be concluded that tourism research are at the multidisciplinary age. As tourism researchers grow, different disciplines interact with each other and knowledge is accumulating, tourism research could become an independent discipline with its unique paradigm and methodology.