国内外探险旅游研究进展

国内外探险旅游事业迅速发展,学术研究文献也逐渐增多。本文从探险旅游的发展入手,利用国内外主要学术期刊文献等数据,梳理分析了国内外探险旅游研究的主要成果。其研究内容从最初主要关注基本概念,逐渐向探险旅游的安全问题、产品、市场、影响乃至专题探险旅游研究等深层次深入。研究地域从发达国家的传统探险旅游目的地逐渐扩展到全球视野的新兴探险旅游目的地。研究方法中描述性定性分析越来越少,实证研究、定量分析方法乃至跨学科研究方法的应用逐渐增多。本文提出:①继续加强基本理论问题的探讨,②强化薄弱研究领域,③加强多学科借鉴,④利用面板数据增强动态的研究。

PROGRESS OF ADVENTURE TOURISM RESEARCHES

Adventure tourism activity emerges earlier in the west, and now it has stepped into a superior developement stage. It has drawn the attention of the academy and the relative literature have also been increasing gradually year by year. Beginning with the development of adventure tourism, and based on the data from domestic and overseas academic journals and reports, this paper reviews and analyzes the contents of its researches at home and abroad, and gives some advices to the development of adventure tourism research. First of all, the research content changes grandually from general definitions to adventure tourism risk and safety, product, market, impact and even the thematic adventure tourism. And then, the research regions extend grandually to the rising adventure tourism destinations all around the world, from traditional adventure tourism destinations of developed countries. Further more, in research methods, while qualitative analysis decreases, application of empirical studies, quantitative analysis and interdisciplinary methods increase.
Based on the present situation of adventure tourism research, the paper brings forward several suggestions for future researches:(1) It's necessary to strengthen the discussion on basic theories and definition to get agreement on the comprehension of adventure tourism; (2) Researchers should focus on the weakness of research field, such as adventure tourism destination, production and so on; (3) It's necessary to extend research scopes, deepen traditional research and at the same time absorb more useful theories and methods from other related disciplines; (4) It's important to emphasize on the long term research using panel data to improve long term and dynamic researches on adventure tourism.