沙漠旅游是一项具有地域性、综合性的新兴旅游产品.在分析我国沙漠旅游发展现状的基础上,总结了所具有的特点,即:资源丰富,景观独特;景区档次高,类型多样;旅游产品多元化,旅游项目注重参与体验;和生态旅游有机结合,注重环保教育等.为促进沙漠旅游的可持续发展,实现沙漠旅游的环境效益、经济效益和社会效益的统一,提出了发展沙漠生态旅游,实施沙漠知识经济战略,发挥沙漠旅游的社会教育功能等发展思路.
Desert tourism is a regional and integrated emerging tourism product. Based on the analysis of the status quo of Chinese desert tourism, this paper summarized the characteristics of desert tourism, which including rich resources, unique landscape, high-grade scenic, multiplicity type, diversify desert tourism products, participial tourism projects, educational function combined with the ecological tourism organic. In order to promote the sustainable development of desert tourism, to realize the coincide of environmental benefits, economic benefits and social benefits of desert tourism , this paper presents the ideas of the desert eco-tourism development, the implementation of desert knowledge economy strategy , and the social function of desert tourism.