A tentative study on the world heritage tourism management in China

Due to the economic interests' orientation and the weak enforcement of administrative regulations, China's world heritage is facing the threat of over-exploitation and dislocation. To develop tourism industry, China must handle well the relationship between development and protection, or China's world heritages suffer devastating damage. This article analyzed the domestic and international heritage tourism management and protection methods, and identified ways to improve China's heritage tourism management in an effective way. The author here put out three countermeasures to solve the problem above, that is: first, to Improve laws and regulations system, so that the heritage management has a legal basis; second, to enhance the propaganda of the heritage protection, and raise the awareness of world heritage resource protection; third, To improve the management system and to strengthen the functions of the heritage management institutions, and to realize the scientific centralized management of heritage sites.