Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Travel guide - What is the purpose of the tour?

What is the purpose of the tour?

Including entertainment, vacation, research trip, collecting information, visiting people, moving to other places to start life, religious pilgrimage, missionary trip, business trip, trade and so on.

Tourist location

1. Outdoor tourism: a new tourism mode organized and spread by travelers in recent years, which mostly exists in outdoor exploration, mountaineering, self-driving, hiking and self-help tourism. The process is more free, more difficult and dangerous, and you can experience the fun of traveling.

2. Outdoor travel: for leisure or business, go sightseeing where they live and work. (Stay for at least 24 hours, but not including transit passengers)

3. Cross-border tourism: People from country A go to country B for sightseeing.

4. Outbound tourism: For a certain country or region, its nationals or residents travel to other countries or regions, which is called outbound tourism.

5. Inbound tourism: For a certain country or region, nationals (residents) from other countries (regions) travel to their own country or region, which is called inbound tourism.

6. Local/local tourism, domestic tourism, domestic tourism: leave your place of residence and travel to other places in China (for example, Beijingers travel to Shanghai).

The importance of tourism

Tourism has become an important source of income in many countries and regions. At the World Tourism Organization 1980 meeting, the Manila Declaration held that tourism is a necessary activity in national life because it directly affects social, cultural, educational and economic fields.

Tourism can earn a lot of money by providing tourists with goods and services. Since 20 1 1, it has accounted for 30% of the world service trade and 6% of the total export trade of goods and services. At the same time, it also provides employment opportunities for the tertiary industry.

Services benefiting from tourism include transportation (aviation, cruise ships, railway trains and taxis), hotel industry (accommodation, including hotels and resorts) and entertainment places (amusement parks, restaurants, casinos, shopping centers, music performance places and theaters). Of course, there are also goods sold to tourists, including souvenirs.