Where does the word "tourism" come from? Who is willing to help this? Thank you!

Tourism is a kind of travel and sightseeing activity. Also called travel. He is a complicated social phenomenon, and tourism involves politics, economy, culture, history, geography, law and other social fields. Tourism is also an entertainment activity. Internet travel rescue organizations define tourists as people who are at least 55 miles away from home.

It is an activity that people leave their usual place to visit another place for more than 24 hours and not more than one year.

China's tourism industry started in the early 1980s, and started with *97 China Tourism Year, which has gone through more than ten years' development.

1992, the National Tourism Administration and the Civil Aviation Administration of China once again held the *92 China Friendship Tourism Year. The slogan of Tourism Year is: "Visit China and make friends." As the first tourism year to promote China's tourism products overseas as a whole, *92 Friendship Tourism Year has made great achievements in scenic spot construction, route formulation and various activities organization. In order to give full play to the overall attraction of unique tourism resources distributed all over the country, the National Tourism Administration divides the national tourism routes and products into national tourism routes, characteristic tourism routes and provincial tourism routes and scenic spots product systems according to the grades of tourism products, market demand, transportation and accommodation conditions, which makes the local tourism products stand out and form a clear hierarchical structure. During the year of sightseeing, the National Tourism Administration announced the first batch of 249 national-level scenic spots, and the first batch of 14 featured tourist routes were selected, namely, the Great Wall, the Yellow River, the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, the strange mountains and strange waters, the Silk Road, the ice and snow scenery, the root-seeking pilgrimage, the youth study tour, the honeymoon tour, the health care tour, the food kingdom tour, the ethnic customs tour in southwest China and so on. At the same time, as the main body of the' 92 China Friendship Tourism Year, 14 featured large-scale activities in turn, with climax after climax. The biggest promotion activity in the history of China's tourism industry, the' 92 China Tourism Fair, was also a complete success in the year of tourism, which made China's tourism industry enter a higher level and develop steadily.

From the perspective of the long-term development of tourism in China, the National Tourism Administration has formulated a "five-year plan" for tourism promotion from 1993 to 1997, and decided to select tourism products with certain themes year by year from 1993, and gradually and comprehensively display the rich tourism resources such as mountains, rivers, historical sites and folk customs in China until/kloc-0. Therefore, the National Tourism Administration first launched the' 93 China Landscape Tour. "

In addition to strengthening 249 national scenic spots and 14 special lines,' 93 China Landscape Tour' also divided China's beautiful natural scenery into five major tourist markets: Japan, South Korea, Europe, America, Hong Kong and Taiwan Province, each with a meeting point, namely Huangshan, Guilin, Lhasa, Huangguoshu and Changbai Mountain, and other scenic spots were included in these five films. At the above-mentioned five intersections, various tourism departments held various unique and colorful tourism activities in combination with local festivals, which enabled overseas tourists to have a more comprehensive understanding of China's strange peaks and beautiful rivers and mountains.

China is an ancient civilization with a history of 5,000 years. In order to let the world know more about China's long history and culture, China National Tourism Administration and National Cultural Heritage Administration jointly launched the' 94 China Cultural Relics Tour. With the theme of "China, the Temple of Oriental Cultural Relics", this activity has newly launched 14 cultural relics-Confucius' trip to other countries, Qin Shihuang's eastward tour, the Three Kingdoms strategic line, Genghis Khan's battle to the front line, the Tang Priest's pilgrimage line, the Jian Zhen Dongdu line, Princess Wencheng's entry into Tibet, the inscription line of Tang poetry, the Kelpolo tour line and the Xu Xiake tour line.

After focusing on the beautiful scenery and leisure history of foreign tourism resources, the National Tourism Administration held the' 95 China Folk Customs Tour. With the theme of "China is the home of 56 ethnic groups" and "multi-ethnic customs", the' 95 China Folk Tour includes more than ten large-scale folk festivals, such as Hainan International Coconut Festival and March 3rd National Culture Festival, Hunan Yueyang International Dragon Boat Festival, Xinjiang Turpan Grape Festival, Qufu International Confucius Culture Festival, Dai Water Splashing Festival and Fujian Mazu Festival. By the end of 1995, the number of overseas tourists received by the organization increased from 4.25 million to 8.026 million, the foreign exchange income of tourism increased from $2.22 billion to $8.73 billion, and the number of domestic tourists reached 629 million, creating income 13657.

In order to meet the needs of the international tourism market, the National Tourism Administration launched' 96 China-a brand-new holiday and leisure tourism with the theme slogan "96 China-a brand-new holiday world". During this year, the National Tourism Administration and local tourism departments organized large-scale activities after Yalong Bay in Sanya, Golden Stone Beach in Dalian, Taihu Lake in Wuxi, Silver Beach in Beihai and resorts in Qingdao, Suzhou and Yueyang. It fully shows the great development potential of China tourism products.

From 1992, the China Friendship Tourism Year, the colorful images of China's tourism products were gradually fully displayed through a series of continuous and multi-level themes from 1993 to 1996.

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