野生动物旅游:概念、类型与研究框架

野生动物旅游源于欧美地区的野生动物猎杀和观赏活动,已经历了上百年的发展历史。近年来,野生动物旅游发展迅速,受到国外学界和业界的广泛关注。文章分析和总结了野生动物旅游的概念,依据不同的标准划分了野生动物旅游的类型;构建了野生动物旅游研究的内容框架,认为其由野生动物旅游内涵研究、野生动物旅游供给研究、野生动物旅游者研究、野生动物旅游影响研究、野生动物旅游地可持续发展研究等五个既相互独立、又相互关联的子系统构成。

Wildlife Tourism: Concept, Types and Study Framework

Wildlife tourism stems from some kinds of wildlife-based activities in the European and American area,which have experienced a quite long history of more than one hundred years.Wildlife tourism in recent years develops very quickly and arouses widespread concerns among overseas academic circle and industries.This paper makes an analysis on the concept and classification of wildlife according to different standards.Furthermore,this paper constructs a study framework including five aspects as followed: the concept of wildlife tourism,tourism products and supplies,wildlife tourists,economic,social,environmental impacts of wildlife tourism,and the sustainable development of wildlife tourism destination.