【内容提要】旅行社运行的制度环境是一个国家的社会、政治、经济、文化特征所决定的政府行为在旅行社领域中的现实反映，是制约旅行社生长与发展的重要因素。本文从政府对旅行社业的宏观干预与微观规制、监管体系与运作机制等方面对中外旅行社发展的制度环境进行了系统的比较研究，并在此基础上对市场开放条件下中国旅行社制度环境的建设提出了对策与建议。
【英文摘要】The regulatory environments of the travel agency industryin a country,which is a reflection of the country's social,political,economic and cultural characteristics, bears muchinfluence on the growth and development of the travelagencies in the country.By analyzing the systems of macro-control and micro- regulation as well as the supervisorysystems and operational mechanisms at the governmental levelin both China and foreign countries,this thesis has tried tocompare systematically the regulatory environments in whichtravel agencies survive and develop.Some countermeasures andsuggestions are t……