Unconventional Development of China’s Tourism Industry and Its Phases of Development

Abstract

As mentioned earlier in Chapter One, China’s tourism industry started with the development of inbound tourism which in turn helped to promote the development of domestic tourism and outbound tourism . This mode of development was unconventional and government-dominated when compared to the tourism development mode of some developed Western countries in history. Judging from the Government’s planning and management of tourism development and the scale of the above-mentioned three forms of tourism, China’s tourism development went through a timely sequence. The inbound tourism was developed as the first priority and was successively followed by domestic tourism and outbound tourism , manifesting an unconventional development sequence.