旅游业急速发展的现实充当了中国旅游人类学发展最强大的推动力,旅游人类学在国外四十多年的成长也为其提供了良好的基础和借鉴。中国旅游人类学在这双重合力的推动下,学术活动频繁、专业刊物搭建平台、基金资助力度加大、学科建设初见成效。在旅游的社会文化影响、旅游真实性理论、社区参与旅游发展等领域的研究进展显著。但是,仍存在不少问题,既需要深入发掘人类学本身的理论和方法优势,也还要扎根中国现实。
With the support of 40 years’ development of tourism anthropology overseas, rapid development of tourism industry in China has been the strongest accelerator for the development of tourism anthropology. These composite forces have been prospering the academic activities of tourism anthropology, building up platform for professional journals, strengthening financial support and achieving progress in discipline construction. In the research areas of socio-cultural impact of tourism, theory of tourism authenticity, community participation of tourism development, great progress has been made in anthropology of tourism. There are still some issues that we need to study with advantageous methods of anthropology and on the basis of China's reality.