Author(s)

Huimin Wang¹, Yunxin Fu²

¹Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
²Department of Tourism Management, School of Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

With the increase of people’s income and the various demands for leisure, the preference of Chinese travelers has gradually shifted from traditional sightseeing to more distinctive forms of tourism. Industrial tourism, as one of the forms which curious tourists are fond of, has been rapidly developed throughout the country. Cities are the main carriers of industrialization, also are the important places for Industrial tourism. This paper selects Shanghai and Huangshi as sample cities for research, comparing the two cities and showing the difference between the development stages, development types and development models of industrial tourism in the two cities.

Industrial Tourism, Industrial Heritage, Company Tours

Wang, H. and Fu, Y. (2019) A Comparative Study of Industrial Tourism of Cities in China. Chinese Studies, 8, 13-26. doi: 10.4236/chnstd.2019.81002.