What is tourism?

It's simple. The focus of tourism is to play.

"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, a trip to achieve these goals. 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.

Tourism has many names in the history of our country, and different people have different names for tourism. For example, the emperor's patrol and inauguration patrol are called "patrol" or "patrol"; Eunuchs take office and visit relatives and friends, which is called "official tour". The so-called "official promotion and demotion" is also called this. A poet, a man of letters, is called "roaming" when he seeks ancient secluded places and travels in all directions. Monks and Taoists travel abroad to seek dharma, which is called "cloud tour". In addition, there are names derived from roaming, heroic travel, smelting travel, tourism, Chen You, Xianyou, fugue and night tour. For example, The Journey to the West said for the third time that "he relaxed his mind, traveled around the world every day and enjoyed himself in Qian Shan." This is a trip. The preface of Du Fu's Zhuang You is "Recalling the past trip, how heroic!" He is a man of insight and travels far with great ambitions. Li Shangyin's Untitled says, "Seeing that I am ashamed to take photos frequently, I don't know that I am a prodigal son", which means that men and women go out for leisure activities together in spring and festivals. Traveling around refers to four trips, such as "Guan Zi Xiao Kuang", which says, "Let's travel around the world and summon the wise men in the world." Chen You also refers to the travel of ancient emperors and members of the royal family. For example, Wang Wei's "Wind and Prosperity" and "Here is our emperor ready-don't waste the wandering season when the sun is the spirit" and "Dream of Red Mansions" are all eighteen times "the style of writing is exhausted, and filial piety should be restored to the province". Wandering immortals refers to the journey of seeking immortals and visiting Taoism, such as the cloud in Li Bai's "Feeling Xing", "Wandering immortals for fifteen years has not stopped". Night tour refers to night tour, such as Li Bai's sentence "The ancients walked by candlelight at night". Fugue refers to wandering in spirit or dreams. All the above titles, except fugue, can belong to the category of tourism. It can be seen that tourism is a broad concept in meaning.

In modern times, with the expansion of tourism scale and the rise of tourism, different understandings of the meaning of tourism have emerged, so technical definitions expressed in different contents and ways have been born. Among them, tourism in a narrow sense has the following definitions: ① Tourism is considered as a pastime. take for example

The above narrow definitions, * * * all have the same feature, that is, only one or several factors in tourism are highlighted.

It belongs to a broad definition, and there are also several viewpoints. For example, the institute of Vienna University of Economics believes that "tourism can be understood as people temporarily staying in different places in their spare time, mainly for rest, secondly for education, expanding knowledge and exchange, and secondly for participating in one kind or another of organizational activities and changing related relationships and functions."

The book Introduction to Tourism published by China Tourism Publishing House defines tourism as "tourism is a socio-economic phenomenon under certain socio-economic conditions, and it is the sum of all phenomena and relationships caused by people's non-settled travel with sightseeing as the main purpose and temporary residence as the purpose."

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