Synopsis

This textbook is written by adapting to China's tourism industry development in the 14th Five-Year-Plan，meeting the education and teaching reform demands and the textbook construction goals from the Ministry of Education.This textbook consists ofseven chapters：General Introduction of International Tourism，the Asia Tourism Region，the Europe Tourism Region，the North America Tourism Region，the South America Tourism Region，the Africa Tourism Region and the Oceania Tourism Region.This textbook systematically describes the territory，natural features，population，nationality，brief history of development，politics，economy，tourism market，tourism resources and other basic situations of the 23 major tourist source and destination countries.In each country，the first part is written in Chinese while the second part is mainly in English，which is conducive in developing the reader's English reading skill.This textbook can be used not only as a teaching material for tourism management majors in colleges and universities，but also as a reference textbook for tourism workers.It is especially useful for inbound and outbound tourists.