海洋与海岸带旅游已成为国外旅游研究最重要的领域之一。论文在国外相关文献的基础上,从海洋与海岸带旅游发展的环境问题、经济问题、社会文化问题、海洋与海岸带旅游资源评价、规划管理与可持续旅游发展、小岛屿发展中国家或地区旅游开发等方面对国外海洋与海岸带旅游主要研究进展进行综述和评价,并为我国海洋与海岸带旅游资源开发和管理的理论研究与实践应用提供参考。

Ocean and coastal tourism is one of the fastest growing areas within the world's largest industry.The development of beach resort and the increasing popularity of ocean and coastal tourism has exerted increasingly great pressure on the coastal areas,and has resulted in and will continues to have negative impacts on the ocean and costal environment.Foreign studies of o-cean and coastal tourism published from the early1990s on are reviewed,with specifical focuses on the spects of society,economy ,environment,evaluation of tourism resources,planning and man agement and sustainable tourism.Meanwhile,the development of small island tourism has been giv en more con cern.The paper aims at promoting theoretical research and product deve-lopment of ocean and coastal tourism in China.