| Acknowledgement | 第1-4页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第4-8页 |
| Chapter One: Introduction | 第8-21页 |
| 1．1 The Purpose of Writing the Thesis | 第8-12页 |
| 1．2 The Importance of Tourism Translation | 第12-14页 |
| 1．3 Translation Study in Tourist Material | 第14-21页 |
| 1．3．1 Conventional Translation Theories | 第14-15页 |
| 1．3．2 The Change in the Concept of Translation | 第15-18页 |
| 1．3．3 A New Approach to Translation Study | 第18-21页 |
| Chapter Two: Information Theory & Translation | 第21-34页 |
| 2．1 A Brief Introduction to Information Theory | 第21-22页 |
| 2．2 Information Transmitting Model | 第22-23页 |
| 2．3 A New Perspective toward Translation | 第23-32页 |
| 2．3．1 The Definition of Translation | 第23-25页 |
| 2．3．2 The Position of Translation | 第25-26页 |
| 2．3．3 Language Communication Model | 第26-29页 |
| 2．3．4 The Structure Model of Discourse Information | 第29-32页 |
| 2．4 The Application of Information Theory in Translation Practice | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter Three: Tourism Translation Practice in China | 第34-44页 |
| 3．1 The Status Quo of the Translation of Tourist Advertising Material | 第34-38页 |
| 3．1．1 The Existing Problems | 第34-36页 |
| 3．1．2 Data of a Survey | 第36-38页 |
| 3．2 Features of Tourist Advertising Material | 第38-40页 |
| 3．3 Translation Standard of Tourist Advertising Material | 第40-41页 |
| 3．4 Information Theory and Translation of Tourist Material | 第41-44页 |
| Chapter Four: Applications and Analysis | 第44-66页 |
| 4．1 Redundant Information Theory | 第44-45页 |
| 4．2 Communication Load in Tourist Material | 第45-48页 |
| 4．3 Translation Methods to Tourist Material | 第48-66页 |
| 4．3．1 Ellipsis and the ”Compression” of Information | 第48-59页 |
| 4．3．2 Addition and ”Decompression” of Information | 第59-64页 |
| 4．3．3 Dispersion of Information and Rewriting and Transferred Translation | 第64-66页 |
| Chapter Five: Conclusions | 第66-72页 |
| 5．1 Conclusions | 第66-69页 |
| 5．2 The Significance of the Study | 第69页 |
| 5．3 Limitations of the Study | 第69-70页 |
| 5．4 Suggestions for Future Research | 第70-72页 |
| Bibliography | 第72-76页 |
| Appendix | 第76-77页 |
