Compared with traditional sightseeing holiday products, what are their characteristics?

Characteristic tourism is a new tourism form, which is an improvement on the basis of conventional tourism such as sightseeing and holiday tourism, and a development and deepening of traditional conventional tourism form, so it is a higher form of characteristic tourism activity products. The concept of "characteristic tourism" is usually called "theme tourism", "special tourism" and "characteristic tourism".

The characteristic tourism mentioned here refers to a characteristic theme tourism activity that is developed and organized in order to meet the special interests and needs of tourists. Judging from the development of characteristic tourism and the nature of practical experience, compared with sightseeing and holiday tourism, it has the following inherent characteristics.

1. On the value orientation of tourism consumption, characteristic tourists pay attention to autonomy, individuality and purpose, sightseeing pays attention to the perception of external landscape, and holiday tourism pays attention to leisure and enjoyment.

2. The experience mode of characteristic tourism emphasizes mental and physical factors. Tourists perceive the outside world in sports and get spiritual satisfaction in taking risks or facing a brand-new environment. Tourists themselves have a high degree of autonomy and initiative in organizing their trips.

3. The means and methods of characteristic tourism are human management (hiking, hunting, mountaineering, camel team and bicycle tourism) and self-driving motor vehicle management (automobiles, motorcycles and other motor vehicles).

4. The routes and regions of characteristic tourism have great particularity. Continuous tourism has a long span and a long time, and the compounding of tourist destinations is a prominent feature of characteristic tourism. The natural environment and human environment of characteristic tourism are very primitive, and the areas that the tourism passes through are usually frontier (frontier), ancient (with a long history of civilization), barren (desert, inaccessible places), strange (with peculiar topography), dangerous (mountains, dangers and poor water) and few (places where ethnic minorities live in compact communities). The resulting tourist routes and projects are fresh, exciting and adventurous for tourists.

5. Tourists who take part in special tourism activities generally have the spirit of adventure and the constitution of enduring hard conditions, and generally choose like-minded people as traveling companions. There are different cultural norms.

6. The product connotation of characteristic tourism will change with the changes of the times, and the special aesthetic taste and characteristics of characteristic tourism will gradually emerge in the development process. Its connotation also varies from country to country. For example, car travel is quite common in Europe.

7. According to China's national conditions, special tourism generally adopts unconventional modes of transportation and sometimes passes through closed areas, so it is a product that needs special approval in policy.

Characteristic tourism, as a form of tourism, not only has the characteristics of providing food, accommodation, transportation and travel services for tourists with sightseeing and holiday tourism, but its main essence is to participate in tourism with tourists, provide services in participation, and guide tourists to achieve their tourism goals with their own professional knowledge. This kind of tourism activities have a wide range, often involving remote and sparsely populated areas, and the way of tourism activities is extraordinary and extremely difficult. As far as China's actual situation is concerned, there are large geographical spans, trips with cars, bicycles and motorcycles as tourist vehicles, and sports trips with non-competitive events such as skiing, rock climbing, rafting, hot air ballooning and gliding. Adventure tourism in mountains, canyons, deserts, caves and inaccessible areas, as well as scientific investigation tourism of natural and human landscapes with short-term viewing, reconnaissance and visiting as the main tourism forms, can all be included in the category of characteristic tourism.