The overall aim of this report is to investigate how the physical geography (location, climate, biosphere and landscape) and human geography (cultural, transportation, economic, political and urban development) of Inner Mongolia affect its tourism industry.
Our objectives are divided into three parts. First, we are going to see whether the local government is confident to develop its tourism or not. Second, we want to find the strengths and weaknesses of Inner Mongolia’s tourism development. Third, we want to know how the local government ameliorates its weaknesses or how it reverses the disadvantages to advantages.
After our investigation, we found that the Inner Mongolia government is very confident to develop its tourism. It has some strengths like on the physical geography side, it has locational advantage and generous fauna and flora in biosphere; on the human geography side, it has its unique traditional culture, the well-developed transportation network, the thriving and robust economic development and modern urban development with cultural heritages. However, there are also some weaknesses, for instance, the unfavorable climatic conditions and plateau landscape on physical geography side; the political factor on human geography side. The local government has done a lot to ameliorate its weaknesses say it not only introduces grassland tourism but also cultural and heritage, leisure, and eco tourism to attract different type of tourists.
To sum up, although there are physical as well as human hindrances affecting Inner Mongolia’s tourism development, the local government knows how to better utilize its own ups and improve its downs. Therefore we can foresee that there is a bright future of Inner Mongolia’s tourism development.
2. Introduction
Inner Mongolia, which was established in 1947, is an autonomous region of China. It locates in the northern region of the country and shares an international border with Russian Federation and