Types and Significance of Tourism Resources in China

China's tourism resources are diverse, widely distributed and rich in "reserves", which have great potential for development and utilization. In order to deeply understand and study tourism resources, so as to better develop and utilize them, meet the needs of tourists to a greater extent and obtain good benefits, it is necessary to scientifically classify tourism resources, which is a work with both theoretical and practical significance.

Many scholars have studied the classification of tourism resources from different angles and put forward different classification systems:

(1) According to the nature and causes of the resources, they can be divided into:

1. Natural tourism resources (mountains and rivers, meteorology and climate, animals and plants, etc.)

2. Humanistic tourism resources (cultural relics, historical sites, culture and art, etc.)

(2) It can be divided into:

1. Sightseeing and appreciation type (beautiful natural scenery, famous ancient buildings and gardens, etc.)

2. Knowledge type (cultural relics, natural exhibitions, natural wonders, etc.)

3. Experience type (folk customs, festivals, religious ceremonies, etc.)

4. Recreation type (holiday recuperation, rehabilitation, artificial paradise, etc. It can be divided into:

1. Primary tourism resources

refer to those natural and human landscapes and factors (mountain scenery, biological landscape, climate resources, cultural relics, traditional national customs and customs, traditional flavor specialties) which have relatively stable and unchanging characteristics in origin and distribution.

2. The budding tourism resources

refer to the natural and cultural scenes and factors (modern architectural style, modern sports, culture, science and technology attraction and interest, new social appearance and national fashion, museums and exhibition halls, famous and special new products and gourmet shopping places, relics of new functions of natural forces, artificial transformation of natural landscape) with changing characteristics in origin and distribution.

(4) According to different travel motives, it can be divided into:

1. Psychological aspects (religious shrines, major historical events, visiting relatives, etc.)

2. Spiritual aspects (scientific knowledge, entertainment, art appreciation, etc.)

3. Fitness aspects (sand therapy, hot spring therapy, various sports, etc.)

Various laws, etc.)

(5) According to the structure of tourism resources, it can be divided into two categories:

1. Tourism landscape resources (natural tourism landscape resources, humanistic tourism landscape resources, social folk customs resources)

2. Tourism management resources (tourism supplies industrial resources, tourism edible resources, tourism talent resources, etc.)

(6) Dynamic classification according to tourism resources. It can be divided into:

1. stable tourism resources

long-term stable type (religious shrines, ancient buildings, mountains, rivers and lakes, etc.)

relatively stable type (small-sized landforms, waterfalls, glaciers, etc.)

2. variable tourism resources

regular change type (spring water, migratory birds, clouds, etc.)

irregular change.