What are the main functions of tourism?

1, increase the country's foreign exchange income and balance the balance of payments. With the development of international political, economic and cultural exchanges, foreign exchange, as a means of national payment, plays an increasingly significant role. As a foreign exchange income, tourism has played an important role in earning foreign exchange and balancing international payments, which has been proved by the practice of various countries and recognized by people.

2. Paying back the money to accumulate funds Another important part of tourism income is domestic tourism income. Domestic tourism revenue has a positive effect on the country's withdrawal of money and accumulation of funds.

3. Increasing Employment Opportunities Because tourism has promoted the development of many industries, it has increased employment opportunities for the whole society. Tourism is a comprehensive industry, which can not only provide employment opportunities for the society directly, but also indirectly.

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For a long time, China's tourism economic industry engaged in international tourism business has been highly protected by the state, and domestic tourism wholesale operators lack various facilities and well-trained professionals, resulting in generally low service quality and poor quality of tour guides. In order to improve the quality of tourism and related services in an all-round way, we should strengthen macro-management and strict discipline, and improve the quality of enterprises and related personnel. Among them, especially for state-owned tourism enterprises, we should first change the operating mechanism, separate government from enterprises, and then push the enterprises to the market, abolish privileges and protection, so that enterprises can truly become independent and self-financing operators under the market mechanism, improve their ability to participate in international competition, organize production and operation activities in accordance with international practices and market demand, and promote tourism wholesale operators to improve their service quality.