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What is the purpose of traveling?

"Tourism" is easy to understand in meaning. "Travel" is the process of traveling and going out, that is, to travel from place A to place B in space in order to achieve a certain goal; "Tour" means going out for sightseeing, sightseeing and entertainment, that is, traveling for these purposes. Together, it is tourism. Therefore, travel focuses on travel, which has not only the meaning of "travel", but also the meaning of sightseeing and entertainment. 1927, German Meng Gen Rhodes defined tourism. In a narrow sense, tourism is a communication in which people temporarily leave their place of residence to meet the needs of life and culture or various desires, and stay in different places as consumers of economic and cultural goods. Tourism is a social activity. In 1950s, the Institute of Tourism of Vienna University of Economics in Austria defined tourism as an activity that people temporarily stay in different places in their spare time, mainly for self-cultivation. Secondly, travel for reasons of education, knowledge expansion and communication.