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The word tourism comes from Latin "tornare" and Greek "tornos", which means "lathe or circle; The meaning of movement around a central point or axis has evolved into "order" in modern English. Suffix -—ism is defined as "an action or process; And the suffix -ist stands for "people who engage in specific activities". Root tour is connected by suffix-—ism and-—ist, which refers to the movement of circular trajectory, so tourism refers to the reciprocating travel, that is, the activity of returning to the starting point after leaving; People who complete this trip are also called tourists.

In the dictionary of Webster University, tourism is: "Travel for the purpose of entertainment; An industry that provides journeys and services to tourists. "

There are two different definitions of "tourism":

Concept definition: It aims to provide a theoretical framework to determine the basic characteristics of tourism and distinguish it from other similar and sometimes related but different activities.

Technical definition (techno 010 giaid finitjon): used to provide tourism information for statistics and legislation. The meanings or limitations provided by various definitions of tourism technology have been widely used at home and abroad. The latter method, that is, adopting technical definitions, helps to standardize the collection of comparable international tourism data.

2\ Tourism resources generally refer to the objects and services that can attract tourists after development. It refers to all kinds of things and factors in nature and human society that can attract tourists, develop and utilize tourism, and produce economic, social and environmental benefits. Constitute to attract and meet the requirements of tourists, and produce economic value to tourism, including natural and historical landscapes that have been developed and to be developed. As far as its object attribute is concerned, it can be divided into two categories: natural tourism resources and humanistic tourism resources. The former mainly refers to scenic spots and natural scenery, such as scenic spots, precious animal and plant habitats and special geological structures. The latter mainly refers to historical sites, cultural relics, as well as culture and art, ethnic customs, urban and rural construction and so on.

3\ Industries that provide tourism services for tourists based on tourism resources and facilities. Also known as smokeless industry and invisible trade. Tourism resources, tourism facilities and tourism services are the three major elements for the survival and development of tourism. Tourism resources, including natural scenery, historical sites, revolutionary sites, construction achievements, ethnic customs and so on. , is the attractive ability to operate tourism; Tourist facilities, including tourist transportation facilities, tourist accommodation facilities, tourist catering facilities, tourist amusement facilities, etc. , combined with tourism services, including all kinds of labor and management behavior, is the reception capacity of tourism management. In a narrow sense, tourism in China mainly refers to travel agencies, hotels, travel companies and tourism enterprises that specialize in selling tourism commodities. Tourism in a broad sense includes all walks of life related to tourism, in addition to departments specializing in tourism business. As a new and advanced form of social consumption, tourism often organically combines material life consumption with cultural life consumption. From the perspective of business types, there are three main types of tourism: ① organizing domestic tourists to travel and visit in their own countries. ② Organize domestic tourists to travel abroad. (3) to receive or attract foreigners to visit their own countries. The latter two kinds of tourism business activities are both foreign-related businesses. Because tourism mainly provides intangible utility to the society through the form of labor services, that is, special use value to meet the consumption needs of tourists for sightseeing. The basic feature of its industry is unproductive, so it is also called smokeless industry. On the whole, tourism is not an economic sector to realize commodity circulation, but relies on tourism resources and facilities to provide services such as food, housing, transportation, entertainment and shopping to meet the needs of tourists' travel and consumption. So it is also called invisible trade.

4\ The so-called disposable income refers to the residual income after deducting the basic living costs such as housing, food and taxes from the total income.

5\ The definition of tourism market, from an economic point of view, is the sum of the exchange relations between the supply and demand sides of tourism products, that is, various economic phenomena and economic ties arising from the exchange of tourism products.

Geographically speaking, the tourism market is the center of tourism economic activities. It belongs to the category of general commodity market and has the basic characteristics of commodity market, including tourist supply places (that is, tourist destinations) and tourists (that is, tourists), as well as the economic relationship between tourism operators and consumers. The difference between the tourism market and the general commodity market is that it sells not specific material products, but a package of routes characterized by labor services. At the same time, the process of tourism supply and consumption is synchronous and has strong seasonality. For any country, region or tourism enterprise, the share of tourism market is directly related to the benefits of tourism management, so it is very important to investigate, divide, develop and predict the tourism market in the process of development and construction of tourist areas and tourism management. According to the needs of tourism management, there are many classification methods of tourism market, such as the classification of tourist source market by tourism consumers; Divided into international and domestic tourism markets according to geographical scope; According to the age and gender characteristics of tourists, it is divided into old, middle, young, children and women's tourism markets; It can also be divided according to the social status, education level and economic payment ability of tourists. According to the types of tourism activities, it is divided into sightseeing, vacation, conference, shopping, sports, exploration and scientific investigation of the tourism market; According to the tourist reception volume and regional distribution, it is divided into primary market, secondary market and opportunity market. Through the study of tourism market, we can determine the current situation and changing trend of tourism demand, including estimating the general trend of international and domestic tourism market development, supply and demand situation and competition situation, and accordingly determining the target market in this region and making market planning; Study various factors that affect the market, make tourism management adapt to the changing market, and achieve the purpose of attracting tourists.