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An Introduction to Tourism Earth-science (Chinese Version, 1991) is a summary of the research findings of the Chinese Academy of Tourism Earth-science and Geopark Research since its establishment in 2009, as well as that of China’s tourism earth-science circle. It marks a new stage in the development of China’s tourism earth-science research. However, as mentioned in Chap. 1 of that book, tourism earth-science only recently became a discipline in its own right in China and worldwide. It was not until 1985 that the term was used in China. As an emerging discipline, tourism earth-science is still under development. Therefore, it is timely to assess its future and make some suggestions regarding its ongoing development.
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Chen, A., Lu, Y., Ng, Y.C.Y. (2015). Prospects for Tourism Earth-science and Geotourism. In: The Principles of Geotourism. Springer Geography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46697-1_11
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