What is tourism?

Tourism refers to the activities that people leave their usual environment for leisure, business or other purposes and stay in some places for less than one year. This kind of activity is not to get paid for where they go.

Tourism, from the human point of view, is to visit some special places such as scenery, geology and weather. The left half of the brigade is a square character, and the right half is an ancient ascetic monk. Together, it means that you can travel around the world at will. The word "wanderer" can be interpreted as "Guan daren plays the world". Tourism is important to play and enjoy, and its significance lies in relaxing, experiencing, approaching and feeling nature. The ancients also talked about being connected with nature, which is also the meaning.

The purpose of tourism is to go to nature and cultivate sentiment. Enjoy the scenery and increase your knowledge. Tourism includes weather, geography, nature, archaeology, architecture, gardens, animals and plants, dialects, local customs, food culture, local specialties and so on.

Characteristics of tourism

1. Tourism is a complex and comprehensive activity, including food, shelter, transportation, shopping and entertainment. In tourism activities, people are not only browsing, but more importantly, they want to experience the novel cultural environment of the tourist destination, taste the delicious food and buy local products.

This series of activities can not be completed by a single tourism department, but need the support of different departments. For example, the hotel industry should provide tourists with a comfortable rest environment, and the transportation industry should provide tourists with convenient transportation. Tourism closely links catering, health, architecture, culture and education, transportation, agriculture and forestry. Accordingly, with the development of tourism, these departments have also developed.

2. Tourism activities are composed of different tourism projects, and their types are comprehensive. Modern tourism types are divided by geographical regions, including international tourism and domestic tourism; According to the organizational forms, there are group tours, individual tours, package tours and self-help tours. According to the mode of travel, there are air travel, railway travel, car travel, sea cruise and so on.

According to the activities, there are cultural tourism, religious tourism, sightseeing tourism, recuperation tourism, adventure tourism and so on. According to the source of expenses, there are self-funded tourism, public tourism and social tourism.