Briefly describe social tourism resources?

The concept of social tourism resources. "Society", "tourism", "tourism resources" and related "humanities" and "humanistic resources" are a group of concepts with wide scope and great controversy in the fields of sociology and tourism. Many scholars have defined social tourism resources from different angles.

Peng Yiwan (199 1) put forward that "social tourism resources refer to things and activities closely related to human social life" [3]; Wang Keqi (1998) emphasized that social tourism resources are "people in specific areas" [4]; Zheng Xiaoqi (2000) thinks that "social tourism resources are created by modern society" [5]. Ding Jihua (1999) thinks that "social tourism resources also include meetings, businesses and urban landscapes" [6]; Others, Ma Xiaodong and others (2004) think that "social tourism resources are based on abstract cultural attractions [7]; Wang Wencai and others (1994) think that "compared with social tourism resources, humanistic tourism resources are all kinds of buildings with long-term and sustainable value created by human beings" [8], and so on.

The author thinks that the connotation of (1) social tourism resources "things and activities closely related to human social life" is too broad and must be clearly defined. (2) According to the classification of resource attributes, unnatural is humanistic, and social tourism resources cannot be juxtaposed with natural tourism resources and humanistic tourism resources. (3) The category of tourism resources is constantly changing and developing, and it is inevitable to define it by enumeration. (4) Classifying "people with tourist attraction" as social tourism resources conforms to the humanistic characteristics of "society", but "people" must take a certain time and space as a carrier to be transformed into tourism resources. (5) There is great innovation in the definition of time scale, but the scope of "created by modern society" is still too large. Moreover, there is a lack of explanation for the classification reasons, and the classification significance is not obvious enough.

The definition of social tourism resources should be deeply analyzed from three aspects: its humanistic attribute, functional embodiment and time scale. First, from the perspective of humanistic attributes. Social resources generally include the status and distribution of population and labor force as well as people's social production and living facilities. Humanistic resources are artificial products, including material products and spiritual products produced by human activities. Social resources focus on people and people-related events and activities, while humanistic resources focus on people's creation, all of which have humanistic attributes. But no matter what kind of resources, only when they can become tourist attractions (or elements) can they be transformed into tourist resources. Conceptually speaking, human beings, as social resources, can't become tourism resources themselves. Only by combining with certain space, events and activities can they become tourism resources. At the same time, once the natural resources related to human beings are used by human beings, they have humanistic attributes. Therefore, from the classification of tourism resources, unnatural is humanistic, and social tourism resources should be subordinate to humanistic tourism resources. Secondly, from the time scale. Social resources are regional, collective and historic. To understand social resources, we must give it a certain time scale. Many western scholars study social resources from the perspective of social capital. 1980, the Frenchman Pierre Boudinaud thought that social capital was a collection of present and potential resources [9]. It can be seen that historical and social tourism resources can be classified as humanistic tourism resources, and the time scale of grasping social tourism resources should be contemporary. Finally, from the perspective of functional embodiment. The main difference between social tourism resources and contemporary humanistic tourism resources lies in "what is its main function?" . Social tourism resources have their own main social functions, such as modern engineering, modern architecture, exhibition activities, sports events and so on. But because they have both experience and landscape, they extend the tourism function beyond the main function; The main function of contemporary humanistic tourism resources is to meet people's tourism needs.

The author believes that social tourism resources are highly compatible with the sociality of people, the expansion of resource categories and the diversity of tourism needs, and are the most dynamic and potential types of tourism resources. It refers to the contemporary human beings who take a certain time and space as the carrier and have tourist attraction, as well as the things, phenomena and activities created by contemporary human beings that are closely related to people's production and life without taking tourism as the main function. It constitutes humanistic tourism resources together with existing humanistic tourism resources and contemporary humanistic tourism resources.