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What conditions must things and phenomena that can attract tourists have to become tourism resources?

It is also necessary to develop and utilize tourism, because tourism can produce economic, social and environmental benefits.

Various things, phenomena and factors in nature and human society that can attract tourists, develop and utilize 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)

Conceptual analysis

1. The core of tourism resources theory is attraction.

2. Existential form

intangible resources

There are both tangible material resources, such as mountains and rivers, and intangible non-material resources, such as myths and legends. More is the combination of tangible material resources and intangible non-material resources. For example, the Great Wall and Meng Jiangnu cry for the Great Wall, the story of the Forbidden City and dynasties, the story of Mount Tai and emperors of past dynasties, the story of Leifeng Tower in Hangzhou, and the story of Xu Xian and White Snake.

3. Development and change

Tourism resources are not static; They are developmental concepts. It shows that some things did not exist as tourism resources at the beginning, but became attractive tourism resources with the changes of tourists' needs; or vice versa, Dallas to the auditorium

1. stage: Some things that are not tourism resources may become tourism resources in the future. Such as the remains of the Cultural Revolution.

That is, the so-called untapped potential tourism resources and the developed real tourism resources.

2. The attraction of tourism resources has the tendency of group or attraction. For example, rural pastoral scenery and high-rise buildings in cities are very attractive tourism resources for urban people.

Main connotation

The essential attribute of tourism resources-attraction function;

The object of tourism resources-tourists;

The content of tourism resources-the sum of natural and human factors;

Exploitability of tourism resources-tourism value and tourism raw materials.

Tourism resources can be defined as: all raw materials that can attract tourists and have certain tourism functions and values are collectively called tourism resources. It is the basic material condition for developing tourism and belongs to the category of social resources.