What are the basic characteristics of tourism?

Tourism is a comprehensive large-scale industry integrating travel, accommodation, catering, shopping, entertainment and other services. The fundamental purpose of developing tourism is to obtain economic benefits. Tourism itself is composed of many profit-making economic organizations such as travel agency, accommodation represented by hotels, transportation and passenger transport.

The labor service provided by tourism for tourists is a special commodity that can be exchanged. This special commodity has the same use value as general commodities, and the process of producing this special commodity is service.

It is a sensitive and fragile industry, and it is also an industry with certain risks. If a country or region regards it as the only economic pillar, once there is a huge fluctuation, the consequences will be unimaginable.

The seasonality of tourism in a country or region is closely related to the tourism activities in that country or region and is determined by the seasonality of tourism activities. However, visiting cultural tourism resources is generally not limited by seasons.

Tourism is also a sensitive, fragile and high-risk industry. If a country or region regards it as the only economic pillar, once there is a huge fluctuation, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Extended data:

Tourism has the characteristics of cross-industry comprehensive complexity and multi-link service consumption, and tourism products are highly interdependent, which needs the promotion and quality assurance of all links in the service chain. Therefore, the tourism industry is more manifested as a pan-tourism industrial structure based on the industries contained in the tourism industry itself, and related industries such as health sports, culture and art, finance and public services in the primary industry, secondary industry and tertiary industry are linked.

The economic essence of tourism is the economic effect of tourists' terminal consumption in different places (or different residential areas) on the premise of "tourists handling" This move moved the "market" to the destination, to the scenic spot, to the commercial area, to the leisure area, to the holiday area, to the suburbs and to the countryside.

Tourism is a labor-intensive industry with many levels of employment, wide coverage and broad market, which greatly promotes the employment of the whole society. Globally, the number of people employed in tourism reached 200 million in 2009, accounting for 8% of the total employment. From the perspective of China, in 200 1 year, there were 6.98 million people directly employed in tourism, and the total number of people directly employed in tourism was 35.78 million. During the 11th Five-Year Plan period, the tourism industry created about 3 million direct jobs, which led to about170,000 indirect jobs.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Tourism Industry