Due to the integration feature of tourism activities and destinations,
tourism destination has been studied with multi-disciplines.Evolutionary
economics,an increasingly active research field,concentrates on complex economic phenomena.This approach understands social economic phenomena with dynamic evolutionary perspective,emphasizing interactant between micro and macro levels and regarding novelty as the dynamics.Nowadays,innovation has become the crucial factor in destination competition.Therefore,it's necessary to introduce
evolutionary economics thoughts into
tourism destination research.This paper reviews the destination development and the theoretical research on tourism firstly;introduces the origin and characteristics of evolutionary economics theory secondly;and then analyses some core concepts of evolutionary economics and their implication on tourism development,these concepts including evolution,novelty,routine,path-dependency;lastly,this paper provides some advises on destination development based on evolutionary economics thoughts:to build and improve tourism innovation system,to avoid the lock-in phenomenon and developing tourism in unsuitable region,to set up tourism destination production network and to enhance external linkages.