What's the difference between tourism planning and traditional planning?

Fundamentally speaking, all planning involving land use is to think and plan the development direction and results of land resources from two aspects: space and time. However, unlike traditional land and resources planning (such as urban planning and village planning), tourism planning must seek the best contribution of tourism to human welfare and environmental quality on the basis of investigation, research and evaluation.

Therefore, tourism planning first serves the tourism industry and tourism system. Because of the characteristics of tourism itself, the process of solving the optimal result of its development is often not aimed at maximizing the independent benefits of the industry, but at maximizing the social benefits. This makes tourism planning not only serve the tourism industry. In China, this feature is reflected in the formulation and implementation of government-led tourism planning projects.