Who is a real tourist?

The generation and realization of personal travel needs require at least three conditions to be met simultaneously, both objectively and subjectively:

1. Sufficient payment ability is required.

2. You need to have enough leisure time;

3. You must have the motivation to travel.

It cannot be said that people who meet these three conditions at the same time will definitely become real tourists, but if they do not meet these three basic conditions at the same time, they are destined not to become real tourists.

Characteristics of tourists

(1) Foreignness

For tourists, their travel destinations are all foreign places, and it is this foreignness that One feature satisfies tourists’ psychological needs for seeking novelty, novelty, difference and truth, and avoiding “aesthetic fatigue”.

(2) Transient nature

For tourists, visiting a foreign country is temporary and cannot lead to permanent residence (immigration or employment). This is Important differences between tourists and migrants.

(3) Pleasure

This is the ultimate goal of tourists. Whether it is sightseeing and exploring, exposition, increasing knowledge, broadening horizons, or sports, vacations and recuperation, tasting delicious food, cultural exchanges, etc., its most fundamental pursuit is to satisfy a psychological or physiological need, so that the body and mind can benefit from it. The feeling of pleasure is also the fundamental difference between tourists and ordinary travelers.

(4) Consumption

Tourism is a special way of life for people in modern society. Tourists enjoy enjoyment by spending money, which not only requires tourists to have a certain financial affordability, but also requires tourist destinations to provide corresponding tourism services to cater to tourists' consumption requirements. At the same time, the level of consumption also determines the level of tourism.