Researches of the Industrial Wasteland Tourism in China

Industrial wasteland tourism has rapidly developed in China. In this review, we discussed the progress in tourism resources and tourism planning, including value evaluation of tourism resources, resources and products development, development orientation of tourism, tourism landscape planning method and technology, and the international successful cases. The results show that in contrast to other tourism fields, industrial wasteland tourism is late-formed, with deficiencies for instance the application of mathematical method and the comprehensive development plan of tourism products. It should pay more attention to the following aspects in future studies: quantitative evaluation of tourism resources, the economic and sociological research of industrial wasteland tourism, and the application of landscape ecology and ecology, landscape planning and structure-controlling.