What conditions should a person have to become a realistic tourist? What is the practical significance of understanding these conditions?

There are two basic objective conditions for a person to become a realistic tourist. First, there is enough disposable income; The second is to have enough leisure time.

Adequate disposable income

Not all the income of a person or family can be used for traveling. Therefore, in the study of tourism demand conditions, people often use the concept of income including:

(1) Disposable income: refers to the remaining part of personal household income after deducting the income tax payable.

(2) Disposable income: also known as disposable income, refers to the remaining part of personal or family income after deducting the income tax payable, social security consumption and the part that must be consumed in daily life. It can be seen that disposable income is the part of income that can really be used for tourism.

The level of disposable income means the ability to pay for travel. Therefore, the level of disposable income not only determines whether a person can become a tourist, but also affects his level of tourism consumption, the composition of tourism consumption and the choice of tourism destination.

(2) Sufficient leisure time

Although some people have enough ability to pay, they can't travel abroad. One of the main reasons is that there is no time to get away. Therefore, having enough leisure time has become another necessary objective condition for individuals to realize their travel needs.

Although people usually say that leisure time is non-working time other than 8 hours, this statement is not correct. Leisure time belongs to non-working time, but non-working time is not all leisure time. Leisure time: also known as free time, or disposable time, that is, the time that is arbitrarily controlled by individuals and can be used to engage in any other activities that they are willing to engage in, except for daily work, life and other necessary time.

Of course, not all leisure time can be used for traveling. Only those relatively concentrated and continuous leisure time can be used to carry out tourism activities, such as weekend holidays, public holidays, paid holidays and so on.