TOURISM SYSTEM AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH TOURISM PLANNING

The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept, component, construction, function and characteristic of the tourism system using the syntactic mode of tourism system and discusses the relationship between tourism system and tourism planning. The paper is divided into four parts concerning the five aspects of the tourism system respectively. Using the syntactic model of tourism system, Part one introduces the construction, the function, the contents and the definition of tourism system in the view of system theory. Part two establishes the spatial structure of tourism system. Part three discusses on the nature of tourism system in details. Part four considers the relationship between tourism system and tourism planning. The paper shows that tourism system is a subsystem of the nature economic society system composed with origin, destination and medium. Its crucial to study on the tourism system for tourism planning and tourism industry development because tourism system is the basis of tourism industry and its subsystem the destination system is the object of tourism planning.