What conditions should a person have to become a tourist?

Objective conditions:

Sufficient disposable income

Sufficient leisure time

Also, the society of the tourist destination Conditions, accessibility, tourists’ physical condition and family demographic structure

Subjective conditions:

Motivation and needs of tourism

Details:

1. Objective conditions

(1) Sufficient discretionary income

A person’s income level, or the income level and wealth of his family, determines his ability to Whether outbound travel can be realized and the level of outbound travel consumption are important material foundations for the realization of outbound travel activities. The reason is simple. Tourism is a consumption activity, and tourists must pay a certain amount of currency to complete the trip. However, it is impossible for a person or a family to spend all of their income on tourism. Therefore, the factor that most directly determines whether a person can become a tourist and implement tourism activities is discretionary income.

The so-called discretionary income refers to all income within a certain period (usually 1 year) minus taxes, social expenses (health and life insurance, old age pensions and unemployment benefits advances, etc.) , the necessary consumption in daily life (food, clothing, housing, transportation, etc.) and the remainder after saving to prevent unexpected expenses.

A family's discretionary income can be measured relatively by the Engel coefficient. The lower the Engel coefficient, the higher the level of discretionary income. At the same time, the amount of discretionary income determines tourists’ consumption level, consumption structure, and their choice of travel destinations and travel methods. The more discretionary income a tourist has, the farther the travel activities that tourists may choose, and the more room they have to choose comfortable and fast transportation methods; the more they spend on food, accommodation, travel, shopping, and entertainment, the more travel activities they may choose. The proportion of expenditures is relatively lower; the more discretionary income, the higher the tourism consumption. On the contrary, it will change in the opposite direction

(2) Sufficient leisure time

1. Leisure time

Even if a person has strong economic strength and sufficient disposable income, it does not mean that he can become a tourist. Because tourists' travel activities are all in different places, tourists must leave their usual place of residence to visit other places, which requires tourists to have enough leisure time to participate in tourism activities. Sufficient leisure time is another necessary objective condition for a person to travel and become a tourist.

So, what is leisure time? To understand and understand leisure time, we first need to start with the time composition of life. Generally speaking, life time can be divided into three parts: working time, life time and leisure time. Working time refers to the necessary working time for people to maintain personal and family survival, including statutory employment working time and necessary additional working time. For students, it refers to study time; life time refers to meeting people’s physiological needs (such as eating, sleeping) ) and the time spent dealing with daily chores (such as family affairs, necessary social activities), etc.

It can be seen that leisure time refers to the time that people can freely use to engage in entertainment, recreation, socializing or other activities of their own interest, except for work and life time. It is also called free time or free time. Spend your time freely.

2. Leisure time distribution in tourism

Leisure time is part of people's non-working time. In modern society, it has four distribution situations:

Daily leisure, weekly leisure and public leisure ***Holidays and paid holidays.

Daily leisure is the leisure time after work (study) and life every day. Its characteristics are scattered in several periods of the day. Although it can be used for rest or entertainment, it is difficult to Used for tourism activities.

Weekly leisure usually refers to weekend rest days or weekly rest days. At present, our country and most other countries in the world have implemented a five-day work system with two days off on weekends. (my country has implemented a five-day work week since May 1, 1995). Although this leisure time is relatively concentrated, due to its short time, it is generally only suitable for carrying out some close-range tourism activities.

Public holidays are commonly referred to as legal holidays. Due to different historical, cultural and religious reasons in different countries, the distribution of public holidays is also different. The most typical public holidays in Western countries are Christmas and Easter. At present, the public holidays in our country include New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Qingming, "May 1st Labor Day", Dragon Boat Festival, "National Day" and Mid-Autumn Festival. Public holidays usually last for multiple days, which makes it easier for people to go out to visit relatives. It provides a good opportunity for friends or tourists to vacation, and public holidays form the peak period of tourism.

Paid vacation is a preferential paid vacation system for employed employees stipulated by law in some economically developed countries. This kind of holiday is long, such as 6 weeks in Sweden, 4 weeks in Western Europe, 2 to 4 weeks in the United States, and the average annual duration in Europe is about 22 to 25 working days. It is an excellent opportunity for people to carry out tourism activities. , most tourists in Western countries use paid holidays to travel internationally. The my country National Tourism Administration has recommended to the government the implementation of paid holidays, which will also become an opportunity for people to travel for vacation.

(3) Other objective spare parts

Having enough discretionary income and enough leisure time are two important basic conditions for a person to realize tourism activities. But this does not mean that a person can definitely become a tourist as long as he meets these two conditions. In fact, whether a person can become a real tourist is affected and restricted by many factors. These factors can be divided into two categories.

1. Personal factors

In terms of personal factors, age, gender, race, education, etc. may affect the realization of a person's tourism activities. But two factors are most important. One is personal physical condition. A person must have a certain amount of physical strength to travel, otherwise it may be difficult to make the trip. The majority of tourists are able-bodied young and middle-aged people. According to statistics from the National Tourism Administration on international tourists to China, tourists under the age of 50 account for about 80% of the total number of tourists. Although many elderly people have retirement income and sufficient free time, their proportion of traveling is still low. The reason is that they are older and less physically fit. From this point of view, the tourism industry must launch some tourism products suitable for the elderly market that are suitable for their physical conditions; the second is family conditions. Many surveys show that families with infants and young children under 4 years old are very unlikely to travel because of the burden of the children.

2. Social factors

Social factors include many aspects, but they mainly refer to social political and economic systems, social security environment, scientific and technological levels, etc. The foreign policy of a country's government often determines the possibility of tourism; countries and regions with a stable social environment and similar political views can attract tourists, while regions with unstable politics, economy, social security and other aspects will attract tourists. Will be discouraged. For example, the Middle East and the Gulf region are originally very attractive areas for tourism. However, due to the constant war in recent years, tourists have not dared to go there. The development of technological level, especially transportation technology, can greatly promote the development of tourism. There are many more similar factors, and there is no need to list them all, because here, we mainly talk about the objective influencing factors based on the necessary conditions for tourists themselves.

2. Subjective conditions

(1) Tourism motivation and its generation mechanism

Just because a person has the objective conditions for the formation of a tourist does not mean that he or she is a tourist. To become a tourist, if he does not have the subjective intention to travel, he still cannot become a tourist. In other words, in addition to objective conditions, the formation of a tourist also requires subjective conditions, and this subjective condition is the motivation to travel.

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