What are the characteristics of tourism?

The characteristics of tourism are dependence, comprehensiveness, fragility, fluctuation, seasonality, driving and foreign-related.

Tourism, known internationally as tourism industry, is a comprehensive industry that relies on tourism resources and facilities to attract or receive tourists and provide them with transportation, sightseeing, accommodation, catering, shopping and entertainment. The basic characteristics are dependence, comprehensiveness, fragility, volatility, seasonality, driving and foreign-related. Tourism business consists of tourism, transportation, passenger transportation and accommodation represented by hotels, and is the three pillars of tourism.

Because tourism mainly provides intangible utility to the society through the form of labor services, that is, special use value to meet the consumption needs of tourists for sightseeing. The basic feature of its industry is unproductive, so it is also called smokeless industry. On the whole, tourism is not an economic sector to realize commodity circulation, but relies on tourism resources and facilities to provide services such as food, housing, transportation, entertainment and shopping to meet the needs of tourists' travel and consumption.

The importance of tourism

Tourism includes international tourism and domestic tourism. Tourism in economically developed countries generally starts from domestic tourism and gradually develops into international tourism. Because of economic backwardness, some developing countries need foreign exchange for economic construction, and most of them start from international tourism. Domestic tourism and international tourism are closely related. Overall planning and reasonable arrangement can promote each other, complement each other and develop together.

Tourism can meet people's growing material and cultural needs. Through tourism, people can rest physically and mentally, improve their health, broaden their horizons, increase their knowledge and promote the development of social production. The development of tourism is based on and restricted by the development level of the whole national economy. At the same time, it directly and indirectly promotes the development of relevant departments of the national economy, and urges these departments to continuously improve and perfect various facilities, increase service items and improve service quality.