Abstract:
Based on the perspective of supply and demand,the progress of tourism coupling research in domestic and abroad is reviewed. The study showed there exist similarities and differences between in domestic and international tourism coupling research. The similarities are as follows: research perspectives mainly focus on supply aspect, integrate research based on the supply and demand is less; research themes overlap in part,and research methods focus on empirical analysis. The differences are as follows: theoretical study and empirical analysis are equally stressed in foreign countries, whereas the empirical analysis is emphasized and theory research is relatively few in domestic. Abroad research theme are abundant from microscopic perspective, macroeconomic research is few, but domestic research mainly focuses on macro-research; foreign research methods is diversity, domestic research methods are relatively single and focus on coordination degree model of coupling.Based on the research progress it is proposed that the research on the ‘tourism coupling’ concept, connotation and denotation should be studied deeply; ‘Tourism coupling’ ideological and theoretical system should be strnagthened;The ‘travel coupling control’ thought should be highlighted;and ‘tourism coupling’ research should be integrated with systems theory, self-organization theory , the coordinated development of the theory and cybernetics and the width and depth of the ‘tourism coupling’ should be expanded.
