Brief introduction of tourism resources

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." (National Tourism Administration, Institute of Geography, China Academy of Sciences, "China Tourism Resources Census Standard (Trial Draft)" 1. The core of tourism resources theory is attraction.

2. There are both tangible material resources, such as mountains and rivers, and intangible intangible 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. 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;

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

Tourism resources can be defined as: all raw materials with natural and human factors 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.