How to understand that tourism is the product of the development of social productive forces to a certain stage?

Tourism activity is a kind of high-level consumption activity that exceeds the needs of human survival. It needs a highly developed social and economic level. The development of productive forces leads to the reduction of people's working hours and good economic conditions, which leads to tourism activities. Therefore, tourism activities are the product of the development of human society to a certain stage. In modern society, the subject of tourism activities has changed, and people have become the main participants in tourism activities, so the essence and social significance of tourism activities are fundamentally different from those in the past. First of all, tourism is a high-level consumption activity, which is developing into a basic demand in people's lives. Secondly, tourism is an active and healthy social interaction of human beings. Thirdly, as far as leisure tourism, which is the main component of modern tourism, is concerned, in essence, tourism is a leisure activity characterized by aesthetics and a comprehensive aesthetic practice.

(2) Social attributes of modern tourism:

① The relationship between tourism and social economy. The emergence and development of tourism is related to the level of social and economic development, and it is the product of social and economic development to a certain stage. The development level of social productive forces determines the scale, content and mode of tourism in each era.

② The relationship between tourism and social politics and culture. Tourism, as a common social communication activity between people, not only helps to enhance mutual understanding and friendship between people of all countries, but also helps to strengthen friendly relations between countries. Tourism is called "civil diplomacy". As a supplement to official diplomacy, it often plays a role that official diplomacy cannot play.

③ The relationship between tourism and daily life. With the development of social productive forces, the improvement of working conditions and the improvement of people's living standards, tourism has increasingly become a basic part of people's material life and spiritual life. Some countries have listed tourism as the third largest living demand after people meet food and shelter. In China, tourism has developed from the activities of a few people to a wide range of mass activities.