Advance in the Research of Wetland Tourism in China

The wetland tourism in China has been one of the most popular tourisms as its fast growth in China in recent years. The significance of the wetland tourism research for the local sustainable development was noticed and have summarized this review in 3 aspects: resources, including assessment, resources and products development; planning, including the orientation of wetland tourism, the landscape planning and application of science and technology; and management, including tourism capacity, environmental evaluation, the ecological compensation and the public participation. The wetland tourism research in China is insufficient in the following fields: the depth of extensive studies, the application of mathematics, the objective planning and the evaluation of ecological influence. What should be more noticed in the future research is that it is considered as landscape ecology, landscape planning and the relevant wetland-structure controlling, the environment and landscape pattern change caused by tourism, tourism risk evaluation, the economics and sociology research in wetland tourism.