| The subject of tourism is rather a new discipline in China, although our country enjoys a very long history of tourist culture. Along with the development of our society, more attention is paid to the tourism, which, in turn, developed rapidly due to the stable social order and the favorable national policy. At present, based on the substantive data concerning the subject of tourism, the predominant means of tourism research in China is the qualitative study, mainly on such aspects as tourism theory, tourism development, tourist resources, tourist culture, tourist enterprises and tourist psychology. However, there is relatively less research on the subject of tourism by means of the quantitative study.Having analysed a great deal of theses on the subject of tourism in China, this article makes use of this quantizer and evaluates the corresponding importance and activity of every research fields in the subject of tourism so as to illustrate its research status and the tendency of development.By way of the bibliometrics analysis, this article, based on the Price's Law, the Bradford's Law and the Lotka's Law, analyses the significant periodicals and productive authors on the subject of tourism, making very use of the Chinese Science Citation Database. This article also conducts a statistical analysis of the published periodicals, the authors and their working units concerning the subject of tourism and makes a study of the relationship among the numbers, the resources of the research literature, the authors and their citation. Therefore, this study will help the researchers comprehend the research status and existing problems therein and learn the tendency of development thereof so as to improve the comprehensive study of the system in the subject of tourism and promote its construction. |
