Brief answer to Introduction to Tourism: In what sense can tourism become an industry? Talk about your understanding.

The formation process of tourism concept is the process of its emergence, development and gradual maturity. As mentioned earlier, tourism is not produced at the same time as tourism activities. Tourism is after the modern industrial revolution, mass tourism has become a world trend, and mass tourism consumption has promoted the formation and development of tourism.

1. Tourism is different from ordinary industries.

Some people used to equate tourism with the travel agency industry. In China, it was once thought that only tourism bureaus and travel agencies could be regarded as tourism departments. Some people think that the products of tourism are provided by a series of interrelated industries, which embodies the comprehensive characteristics of tourism. However, this definition of supply orientation does not answer the question in what sense tourism constitutes an industry.

In order to fully understand the concept of tourism, we need to understand the word "industry".

"Industry" refers to "the general name of enterprise categories whose main business or products are basically the same". This explanation shows that an industry is composed of similar enterprises. These enterprises belong to the same category because they all run the same business or produce the same products. Because of this, whether from the micro-enterprise point of view or macro-point of view, their input and output in operating such businesses or producing such products can be accurately measured and determined. Therefore, traditionally, people have always regarded these conditions as the standard for delineating industries.

Obviously, the tourism industry is far from meeting these standards. This is because:

First, tourism is a comprehensive industry. Her industry boundaries are very unclear. Tourism is not composed of similar enterprises, and their businesses or products are naturally different. It covers all aspects of life such as "food, shelter, transportation, shopping and entertainment". The industry involves catering, accommodation, transportation, banking, communication, culture, processing, postal services, cultural relics, religion, agriculture and forestry, public security, municipal administration, sanitation and so on. The business of hotels is different from that of airlines, and the business of travel agencies is also different from that of hotels. This situation can be seen everywhere in the tourism industry.

Second, the input and output of tourism are digested by related industries (Liu Cong 2003). Many tourism enterprises are not limited to serving customers.

Tourists or tourists? Therefore, in addition to the investment in tourism business, there are actually some non-tourism business investments. For example, in addition to tourists, there are a large number of people who go out to live and work. In addition to mainly receiving tourists, the hotel also receives local people's meetings, social entertainment and even accommodation. Don't say to calculate the ratio of these two inputs, it is very difficult to distinguish them. Therefore, in addition to the investment in tourism business, there are actually some non-tourism business investments. Don't say to calculate the ratio of these two inputs, it is very difficult to distinguish them. Similarly, it is almost impossible to accurately measure the output of tourism enterprises due to their tourism business (rather than the output of all their businesses). From a macro perspective, tourism is not a well-defined industry, and its products are provided by many related industries or industries. Therefore, when calculating and determining the input and output of tourism, people can only estimate the input and output of tourism by investigating, analyzing and synthesizing the input and output of transportation, accommodation, catering, travel agencies and other industries.

Third, tourism is the reorganization of related industries, resulting in new benefits. For example, hotel enterprises belong to the long-term independent accommodation industry, and aviation belongs to the transportation industry. The vast majority of tourism enterprises actually belong to a traditional standard industry.

Perhaps it is for these reasons that tourism is not listed as a separate project industry in the standard industrial classification promulgated by most countries in the world, even in the international standard industrial classification promulgated by the United Nations. There is no word "tourism" in China's national economic industry classification standards, but related activities are classified as "residential, public utilities and residents' living services". Therefore, economists generally believe that in theory, tourism cannot constitute a standard industry.

However, in fact, tourism is a real industry. Although every country establishes tourism as an industry in its own industrial division standard, tourism is regarded as one of the important contents in its own economic development plan. In these countries, such as Spain, Greece and Italy, tourism has actually become a decisive force in the national economy. These facts show that tourism, as an industry, actually exists objectively. Tourism is not as clearly defined as other industries, which is also a reflection of its characteristics. Although the main business or products of these industries are different, when it comes to tourism, they all have one thing in common, that is, by providing their own products and services to facilitate tourism activities, meet the needs of the same tourists, and unify their different products on the premise of overall tourism products.