国内外地质旅游研究现状与展望

从地质旅游的概念、主体、客体、媒介等方面，对国内外已有地质旅游研究成果进行分析和总结。在研究内容上，国内外研究都注重应用性问题的研究，侧重研究地质旅游活动的客体——地质旅游资源以及主要空间载体——地质公园，国内对地质旅游基础理论的研究与国外还存在差距；在研究视角上，多运用地学的理论与方法分析问题；在研究方法上，以定性分析为主，定量分析逐渐增多。在此基础上，对国内未来地质旅游研究方向和重点提出见解，认为未来相关研究应加强对地质旅游基础理论的研究，倡导多学科综合交叉研究、重视技术的应用，强化对地质旅游空间实体的研究。

Current Situation and Prospects of Studies on Geotourism

Geotourism is an important part of natural tourism and ecotourism. Since the 1970’s, Geotourism has attracted the attention from various countries all over the world and has become an important new type of tourism. This paper tries to make an analysis and summary of the concept, subjects, object, medium, geopark of geotourism as well as the study of existing geotourism. In the research content, the researchers have paid more attention to the application problem and focused on geological tourism resource and geopark at home and abroad. There is a gap on basic theory of geotourism between domestic research and foreign research. As for the research perspective, the researchers mostly analyze issues with the theories and methods of earth science. The research method is generally based on qualitative analysis, while quantitative analysis is gradually increasing. The authors of this paper hold the view that we should strengthen the research on basic theory of geotourism, advocate multidisciplinary crossover study, pay attention to the application of technology, and enhance research of geotourism spatial entity.