Briefly describe the concept and function of urban tourism

Concept: Tourism activities carried out in economically developed big cities for the purpose of business meetings, visiting relatives and friends, cultural studies, sightseeing and shopping, and entertainment and leisure.

Function: Tourism is an important urban function. As tourism becomes an important way of life for people, tourism has become an important industry of global concern. Tourism function has become an eager pursuit of metropolitan areas. Tourism function has also It has become one of the important basis for metropolitan positioning. With the deepening of the new international division of labor and economic integration, the economic strength and radiation diffusion capabilities of my country's metropolitan areas have continued to increase. As a new economic growth point, the proportion of tourism in the metropolitan economic system has increased year by year. The scale and intensity of functions continue to increase, and the realization of metropolitan functions is inseparable from the play of tourism functions. Therefore, the tourism functions of metropolises have attracted more and more attention from governments, enterprises and scholars at all levels in our country, and have also become a major issue in urban geography, Regional geography, tourism geography and other disciplines reveal cutting-edge propositions and important fields for the overall and coordinated development of cities and regions.