我国旅游地学及其学科专业发展现状与对策

旅游地学是运用地质学、地理学、旅游学、规划学、美学等知识，为地质旅游资源的调查、评价、规划、开发与保护工作服务的一门新兴交叉学科。旅游地学作为一个专门学科在中国已经历了20多年的发展历史，旅游地学的发展促进了地质遗迹的保护、开发与可持续发展，尤其是近年来中国地质公园的建立。旅游地学的发展，客观上要求其学科专业建设的同步乃至先行发展。对旅游地学发展意义，以及其学科专业建设对地学与旅游学发展的意义进行了探讨。在国内外旅游地学研究现状分析的基础上，从课程开设、教材内容与旅游地学教育层次等方面对目前我国旅游地学学科专业发展的现状进行了分析。对旅游地学及其学科建设存在的问题进行了剖析，并提出了几点建议与对策。

STATUS AND APPROACHES TO CHINA' S TOURISM EARTH SCIENCE

Tourism earth science is a new and compound subject that applies geology, geography, tourism, planning and aesthetics to provide services in surveying, assessing, planning, developing and protecting geological tourism resources. It has over 20 year’s history in China and promotes the protection and sustainable development of geological heritages. Geoparks are a good example. Its development requires a synchronous or prior development of its subjects. This paper discusses the sense of its subject to earth science and tourism, and studies the status from subject setting, textbook contents and education hierarchy, and analyzes the issues in subject setting and presents approaches and suggestions.