The concept, essence and characteristics of tourism! ! !

1. Tourism is a human behavior. According to the viewpoint of Marxist political economy, human beings are the main body of social reproduction, and human behavior belongs to all aspects of social reproduction, so human behavior can be divided into four categories: production behavior, distribution behavior, exchange behavior and consumption behavior.

The subject, object, subjectivity and objectivity of tourism are the four major elements of tourism. The behavior with four elements at the same time is tourism, otherwise it is not tourism, and it can only be called tourism. Meetings, business exchanges, scientific investigations, study tours and adventure activities without sightseeing purposes or behaviors should not be called tourism, but can only be called conference trips, business trips, scientific research trips, investigation trips, adventure trips and so on. At this point, we can give a basic and simple definition of tourism: tourism refers to the behavior of people who reach a certain age to appreciate the natural landscape or human landscape at a certain distance.

The essence of tourism is a spiritual and cultural activity.

Characteristics of tourism

(1) dependence on tourism; (depending on the construction of social infrastructure)

(2) the comprehensiveness of tourism; Tourist hotels, transportation, travel agencies, tourist attractions, etc. )

(3) the fragility of tourism; (vulnerable to socio-economic, political, war and other influences, such as SARS in 2003)

(4) the fluctuation of tourism; (due to its own fragility and seasonality)

(5) seasonality of tourism; (the difference between off-season and peak season)

(6) the foreign nature of tourism; (Receiving foreign tourists)

(7) Tourism is a capital-intensive and labor-intensive industry.

2. Tourists, literally, are tourists, that is, people engaged in tourism activities. Write "tourists" in English. It means that a person travels out of curiosity. However, when counting the number of tourists, a difficult problem arises: who are the tourists? Who is not a tourist? For example, if a person leaves his place of residence for sightseeing in a different place and stays for more than 24 hours, this situation is regarded as a tourist, which seems beyond reproach; But another person left his unit or home, stayed in the city or countryside where he lived for a few hours, and returned to his place of residence that evening. Does this situation count as a tourist? According to our opinion, he is a tourist, but he is not recognized when the number of tourists is counted internationally.

3. Tourism resources: The so-called tourism resources refer to all things and factors that can attract tourists, stimulate tourists' travel motives, have certain tourism functions and values, can be exploited for tourism, and can produce economic, social and environmental benefits. (National Tourism Administration, Institute of Geography, China Academy of Sciences, "China Tourism Resources Census Standard (Trial Draft)".

Main connotation:

The essential attribute of tourism resources-attraction function;

The object of tourism resources-tourists;

The content of tourism resources-the sum of natural and human factors;

Exploitability of tourism resources-tourism value and tourism raw materials.

Tourism resources can be defined as: all raw materials with natural and human factors that can attract tourists and have certain tourism functions and values are collectively called tourism resources. It is the basic material condition for developing tourism and belongs to the category of social resources.

Characteristics of tourism resources

(1) appreciation. (uniqueness) mainly used for viewing or appreciating. This is the main difference between tourism resources and general resources.

(2) Spatial regionality. Regional differences are concentrated in the fact that tourism resources in different regions have different characteristics and tourist landscape charm. To a great extent, it determines whether the tourism industry of a country or region has achieved anything.

(3) seasonality in time. (variability) mainly refers to the best viewing season of natural landscape affected by seasonal climate.

(4) Sustainability in use. Mainly refers to the tourism resources are only for viewing, can not be taken away, and can be used by tourists for a long time. The premise is to protect and manage well.

(5) the comprehensiveness or diversity of the landscape. Refers to the tourism resources are often composed of many factors.