| With over 20 years rapid development, the overall scale of Chinese tourism industry has developed to considerable extents. The market demands, which promote tourism economy, have gradually presented characteristics of diversification and subdivision. The organic combination of compound traveling demands, such as sightseeing, vacation, commercial conference, ecology adventure as well as folks and custom develop vigorously, requiring tourism products with increasing innovation and multiplication. Under this background, island traveling as a kind of charming special tourism product receives universal popularity. Geographic isolation and distinctive resources of islands have decided its irreplaceable status in tourism industry. However, natural and historical conditions of islands also determine its distinguishing development path compared with other tourism products.This paper firstly analyzes the specialty of island-tourism contrasting to continental tourism, and then points out issues that should be paid attention to in the process of developing island-tourism. Then, abased on considering geographic location and development characters of China's offshore islands, this article has analyzed advantages, disadvantages and resource conditions in four islands regional tourism development. On this foundation, through vertical and horizontal comparison of the development conditions and the barriers, this paper proposes three island-tourism economy development modes, and search for the related countermeasures in order to seek the characteristic path of islands tourism development. |