旅游业的蓬勃发展对旅游规划提出了更高的要求 ,必须寻找一些新的有效形式和方法使规划过程具有可持续性和可操作性。旅游系统规划途径即是朝这一方向所做的努力。本文指出旅游规划实质上是旅游系统规划 :规划必须考虑整个旅游系统的运行 ,着眼于规划对象的整体优化 ,要从社会、经济和自然的各层面和整体上来考虑。文章以宁夏回族自治区为例 ,简要阐述了旅游系统规划的总体思想模型、系统规划要素和实施途径。

That tourism planning is essential and urgent for the rapid growth of in ensuring economic benefit and sustainability is now widely recognized. China has practiced much in the field of tourism planning, but there are still some problems and lack of systematic research on theory. The paper introduces a new concept of tourism planning——Systematic Tourism Planning. The paper advances the theory that tourism planning is actually a systematic one. An underlying concept in Systematic Tourism Planning is that tourism should be viewed as an inter-related system of demand, supply, promotion and support factors. It is important that systematic tourism planning must integrate all these parts of the system, optimize and balance the economic, environmental and social-cultural factors in achieving sustainable development, and must be monitored to ensure that it is accomplishing the objectives and achieving the recommended policy. The paper takes the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region as an example, inquires into its basic contents, process and methodologies for the purpose of establishing and perfecting the theoretical and methodological system of tourism planning. In the end, the author concludes four characteristics of Systematical Tourism Planning.