A Preliminary Study on the Regional Types of Tourism Culture in China Zheng: Ren Yun's paper points out that the regional study of tourism culture in China still lacks an overall theoretical expression, and points out that the previous studies mainly interpreted the regional nature of tourism culture as a general spatial feature, lacking pertinence, or historical and cultural scholars classified it as a historical and cultural category, lacking spatial form. This paper focuses on the concept and indicators of regional types of tourism culture, including the similarity of geographical environment, the similarity of tourism landscape, the unity of tourism resource structure, the identity of social and economic development level and the comprehensive level of tourism. According to our field investigation, this paper puts forward a theoretical classification, and then preliminarily analyzes the regional types of tourism culture in China. Author: Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade Tourism Management 20 1620 (Zheng); Hainan University Tourism College 570228 (Ren Yun) Keywords: tourism culture; Regional type; Indicators; China classification number: f592doi: CNKI: Sun: xxjk.0.2007-23-088 Text snapshot: 1 Introduction Tourism culture consists of natural factors and human factors involved in tourism phenomena, including a part of nature, as well as social, economic, historical, cultural heritage, architecture, art, science and technology, information and so on. The natural part of tourism culture is the natural landscape endowed with aesthetic value and the basic natural carrier of social, economic, historical and artistic things. Influenced by geographical factors, the phenomenon of tourism culture shows regional characteristics to some extent. The natural part, historical part, humanistic traditional culture and other factors in tourism culture are relatively regional compared with economic and technical factors. However, all these factors are interrelated in the modern tourism material and cultural system [1], forming an overall movement and change, with the same regional characteristics. There is no way for human tourism activities. ki.com.cn/Article/CJFDTotal-XXJK200723088.htm, visited this website.