Tourism geography, which emerged during the great development of applied geography in the 1980s, cannot now sufficiently support the rapid development of tourist industry due to its short period of development and insufficient theoretical and methodological systems. Therefore, the development of tourist industry urgently needs the knowledge of related more developed disciplines. Phenology is a branch of geography that has an intersection with tourism geography, and it has a very close relationship with tourist industry. The paper systematically reviews the role of phenology in supporting the tourism system, its applications in five specific industrial fields, the role in promoting six dimensions of the high-quality development of tourism, and the influence of climate change on phenological tourism resources and related industries. The analysis shows that: (1) The concept of phenology can help to integrate the tourism resources of natural, human, and social elements in the tourism system. The application of phenology in the tourism industry can effectively improve the service support sub-systems, transportation sub-systems, and medical and health sub-system. (2) The practical application of phenology in the tourist industry mainly involves plant landscape design, determination of ornamental tourism season, ornamental phenology forecasting, time planning for eco-tourism activities, pollen concentration forecasting, ice and snow disaster warning, and tourist route design. (3) Phenology supports six dimensions of high-quality development of tourism, including element, industry, process, time and space, direction, and participating sector. (4) Phenological tourism resources and related industrial links are sensitive to climate change. In the future, studies should focus on the risks of climate change in different climate scenarios and in-depth analysis of the influences on the perceptions and behavior of tourists. Phenological change should be integrated into medium and long-term industrial development plans and industry reports. From the perspectives of disciplinary development and industrial application, phenology can provide theoretical basis for tourism research, as well as practical guidance for the sustainable development of tourism in the context of climate change.

This study uses logical analysis and literature review methods to sort out overseas sport tourism research, focusing on the definition, classification, research fields, research methods, and research theories of sport tourism, and proposes a prospect for future sport tourism research. Findings show that: (1) In terms of sport tourism definition, foreign scholars have not reached an agreement on the definition of sport tourism. The divergence between "genus concept" and "species concept" of sport tourism contributes to the differences in definitions. (2)In the research on the classification of sport tourism, foreign scholars have obtained different results based on different classification standards. At present, scholars mainly use activity types, consumer needs, consumer intention, and willingness as classification standards, which has great limitations. (3) In the field of sport tourism research, popular fields can be categorized into six dimensions: sports, events, development process, space, influence, and stakeholders; emerging fields attracted attention on China and sustainable development. In terms of the future of sport tourism research, scholars need to conduct more problem-oriented interdisciplinary research, expand sport tourism research fields, and further apply the overseas sport tourism experience to the development of sport tourism in China.

Festivals are not only cultural activities but also important tourist attractions, which possess both objective and symbolic properties. The purpose of this paper is to explore the production process of the symbolization of festival tourist attractions from the perspective of organizers based on semiotic theory. The meeting minutes and interview data of the organizers were collected. The data were analyzed using a grounded theory approach, which includes three steps to explore tourism symbolization production: open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. Findings show festival attractiveness, festival organization and management, festival planning concept, and festivalscape respectively constitute the basis, path, idea, and content of symbolization production of festival tourist attractions. More specifically, festival organizers, based on their understanding of festival attractiveness, motivate multiple departments, establish a clear organizational structure, and uphold the planning concepts, including promoting traditional culture, focusing on cultural innovation, keeping up with national strategies, conforming to the trend of the times, etc. In addition, they create a festivalscape composed of security, program performance, creative interaction, gourmet snacks, trade fairs, personnel services, auxiliary facilities, and festival atmosphere. This festivalscape is flexible, diverse, and highly creative, which condenses the cultural connotation of the festival. The organizer can continuously adjust it to reflect the uniqueness of the festival culture to enhance the experience of tourists.

Linear cultural heritage is a special type of heritage. Along with the improved understanding of heritage integrity and growing awareness of heritage reuse and utilization, linear cultural heritage tourism is becoming increasingly important. Therefore, promoting the awareness of linear cultural heritage and grasping the characteristics of linear cultural heritage become key issues in encouraging linear cultural heritage utilization and sustainable linear cultural heritage tourism development. World heritage sites are unique tourism resources that can meet multiple tourism demands. Using the linear cultural heritage data from the World Heritage List, this study analyzed the linear cultural heritage characteristics including category and inclusion criteria, resource combination patterns, and core zones and buffer zones. This study also analyzed the influences of linear cultural heritage characteristics on tourism utilization from the aspects of spatial evolution and tourism reuse. The results show that the development of tourism spatial structure followed the rule of “growth pole.” Moreover, there were different paths for reutilization and activation in terms of cultural stratification of heritage.