“在新的世纪,一些优势产业将成为经济发展的主力军,旅游业就是其中之一。对地处中国中部的湖北来说,旅游业同样将成为全省经济的支柱产业。”日前,湖北省旅游局局长杜云生在接受本刊记者专访时,开门见山地亮出了自己的这一观点。旅游业已成为全球第一大支柱产业杜云生曾长期在地方工作,去年9月方由仙桃市市长调任省旅游局局长。虽然到任时间不长,但由于以前有过分管旅游的经历,加上几个月的深入调研,杜云生对旅游作为一个产业的发展历程和巨大潜力已了然于胸。他和记者首先从这个话题谈起——现代旅游业崛起于“二战”后,很快就成为工业化社会发展最快的产业之一,90年代以来成为与汽车、石油业并驾齐驱的三大支柱产业,目前已跃升为全球第一大产业。旅游业与其他行业相比具有明显的优势:其一,市场需求旺盛。国际研究资料表明,在当代,旅游是消费者仅次于食品和住房的第三大消费项目; “In the new century, some dominant industries will become the main force of economic development, and tourism will be one of them. For Hubei, located in central China, tourism will also become the pillar industry of the province’s economy.” , Hubei Province Tourism Bureau Director Du Yunsheng in an interview with our correspondents, straight to the point of their own point of view. Tourism has become the world’s largest pillar industry Du Yusheng had long-term work in place last September by the mayor of Xiantao transferred to the Provincial Tourism Bureau. Although his term of office was not long, his understanding of tourism as an industry and great potential has come to his knowledge because of the past experience of traveling in excess and in-depth investigations for several months. He and reporters first talked about this topic - the rise of modern tourism after World War II quickly became one of the fastest-growing industries in the industrialized society and became the top three places for the automotive and petroleum industries since the 1990s Pillar industry, has now jumped to the world’s largest industry. Compared with other industries, tourism has obvious advantages: First, the market demand is strong. International research shows that in the contemporary era, tourism is the second largest consumer spending item after food and housing.