Tourism Learning Resources and Development Strategies in China: A Review and Conceptual Framework
Tourism learning resources refer to tourism attractions that carry learning content or stimulate learning behaviors for tourists, thereby determining the quality and effectiveness of tourists’ learning experiences. Actively developing tourism learning resources and manifesting tourism learning funct...
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| description | Tourism learning resources refer to tourism attractions that carry learning content or stimulate learning behaviors for tourists, thereby determining the quality and effectiveness of tourists’ learning experiences. Actively developing tourism learning resources and manifesting tourism learning functions serves as an innovative practical path for cultivating new quality productivity in tourism and bears the contemporary mission of constructing a national lifelong learning system in the context of Chinese-style modernization. However, at the present stage, Chinese tourists, tourism enterprises, and government functional departments still lack a clear and systematic understanding of the connotations and characteristics of tourism learning resources. This knowledge gap restricts the depth and breadth of resource development. To address the identified gaps, this study begins by exploring the relationship between tourism and learning. Through a systematic literature review, it aims to develop a conceptual framework for tourism learning resources to promote lifelong learning and support sustainable tourism development. Taking this framework as a tool, this paper first explains the connotation and characteristics of tourism learning resources; secondly, classifies them into knowledge popularization, natural observation, skill experience, inspirational development, and cultural recreation types; thirdly, identifies their functional manifestations as acquiring experience, knowledge, skills, and wisdom; and finally, proposes development strategies for tourism learning resources. The most critical strategies identified are (1) enhancing tourism learning literacy, (2) optimizing learning-oriented products, and (3) constructing regionally integrated learning destinations. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-82f4d7d2fca54edebe8c89cfb50827052025-08-20T02:45:43ZengMDPI AGLand2073-445X2025-07-01147142110.3390/land14071421Tourism Learning Resources and Development Strategies in China: A Review and Conceptual FrameworkSimeng Zhang0Jia Liu1Yuxuan Li2Management College, Ocean University of China, 238 Songling Road, Qingdao 266100, ChinaManagement College, Ocean University of China, 238 Songling Road, Qingdao 266100, ChinaManagement College, Ocean University of China, 238 Songling Road, Qingdao 266100, ChinaTourism learning resources refer to tourism attractions that carry learning content or stimulate learning behaviors for tourists, thereby determining the quality and effectiveness of tourists’ learning experiences. Actively developing tourism learning resources and manifesting tourism learning functions serves as an innovative practical path for cultivating new quality productivity in tourism and bears the contemporary mission of constructing a national lifelong learning system in the context of Chinese-style modernization. However, at the present stage, Chinese tourists, tourism enterprises, and government functional departments still lack a clear and systematic understanding of the connotations and characteristics of tourism learning resources. This knowledge gap restricts the depth and breadth of resource development. To address the identified gaps, this study begins by exploring the relationship between tourism and learning. Through a systematic literature review, it aims to develop a conceptual framework for tourism learning resources to promote lifelong learning and support sustainable tourism development. Taking this framework as a tool, this paper first explains the connotation and characteristics of tourism learning resources; secondly, classifies them into knowledge popularization, natural observation, skill experience, inspirational development, and cultural recreation types; thirdly, identifies their functional manifestations as acquiring experience, knowledge, skills, and wisdom; and finally, proposes development strategies for tourism learning resources. The most critical strategies identified are (1) enhancing tourism learning literacy, (2) optimizing learning-oriented products, and (3) constructing regionally integrated learning destinations.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/7/1421educational attractionstourism learning productslearning-oriented destinationstourism learning competencestrategies |
| spellingShingle | Simeng Zhang Jia Liu Yuxuan Li Tourism Learning Resources and Development Strategies in China: A Review and Conceptual Framework Land educational attractions tourism learning products learning-oriented destinations tourism learning competence strategies |
| title | Tourism Learning Resources and Development Strategies in China: A Review and Conceptual Framework |
| title_full | Tourism Learning Resources and Development Strategies in China: A Review and Conceptual Framework |
| title_fullStr | Tourism Learning Resources and Development Strategies in China: A Review and Conceptual Framework |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tourism Learning Resources and Development Strategies in China: A Review and Conceptual Framework |
| title_short | Tourism Learning Resources and Development Strategies in China: A Review and Conceptual Framework |
| title_sort | tourism learning resources and development strategies in china a review and conceptual framework |
| topic | educational attractions tourism learning products learning-oriented destinations tourism learning competence strategies |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/7/1421 |
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