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The medium of tourism activities is

The medium of tourism activities is tourism.

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. Tourism business should be composed of tourism, transportation, passenger transportation and accommodation represented by hotels, which are the three pillars of tourism. Tourism is a sunrise industry with strong comprehensiveness, multiple levels and full functions.

In a narrow sense, tourism in China mainly refers to travel agencies, hotels, travel companies and tourism enterprises that specialize in selling tourism commodities. Tourism in a broad sense includes all walks of life related to tourism, in addition to departments specializing in tourism business. As a new and advanced form of social consumption, tourism often organically combines material life consumption with cultural life consumption.

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Tourism includes international tourism and domestic tourism, which are different for different audiences, but their nature and functions are basically the same. 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.