What are tourism resources?

Tourism resources refer to all natural resources and ancient and modern human resources that can be used to develop tourism.

Tourism resources are the premise and foundation of tourism development. Tourism resources mainly include natural landscape tourism resources and human landscape tourism resources. Natural scenic tourism resources include mountains, canyons, forests, volcanoes, rivers, lakes, beaches, hot springs, wildlife and climate, which can be summarized into four categories: landform, hydrology, climate and biology.

Cultural landscape tourism resources include historical and cultural sites, ancient buildings, ethnic customs, new achievements in modern construction, food, shopping, culture and art, sports and entertainment. , can be summarized into four categories: cultural scenery, cultural traditions, customs, sports and entertainment.

brief introduction

1. All kinds of things, phenomena and factors in nature and human society that can attract tourists, develop tourism and produce economic, social and environmental benefits are called tourism resources. (General Principles of Tourism Planning promulgated by the National Tourism Administration in 2003)

2. Tourism resources refer to natural existence and historical and cultural heritage that are attractive to tourists, as well as artificial creation directly used for tourism purposes. (Bao Jigang, 1993)

3. All natural and social factors that can attract tourists, that is, tourist objects or destinations, are tourism resources. (Deng Guanli's Introduction to Tourism, Tianjin People's Publishing House, 1983)

4. From the perspective of modern tourism, all the factors and conditions that can stimulate tourists' travel motivation and be used by the tourism industry, thus generating economic value, are tourism resources. (Xing Daolong, Talking about Tourism Resources)

5. All phenomena and things that can stimulate tourists' travel motivation, be used by the tourism industry, and thus produce economic and social benefits are called tourism resources. (The highly educated version is basically the same as above)

6. The definition of tourism resources is more accurate and standardized: "The so-called tourism resources refer to all things and factors that can attract tourists, stimulate tourists' travel motivation, have certain tourism functions and values, can be exploited for tourism, and can produce economic, social and environmental benefits. "