What are the main characteristics of tourism?

First of all, tourism is comprehensive. Tourism is a comprehensive large-scale industry integrating travel, transportation, housing, eating, shopping and entertainment, and its comprehensiveness is determined by the comprehensiveness of tourism activities. With this comprehensive feature, the same tourist destination must implement industry-wide management of tourism. Secondly, tourism is economical. The fundamental purpose of developing tourism is to obtain economic benefits, and tourism itself is composed of many profit-making and independent accounting economic organizations, such as travel agency industry, accommodation industry represented by hotels, passenger transport industry and so on. Therefore, economy is the most fundamental attribute and the core and essence of tourism. Third, tourism is a service industry. The labor service provided by tourism is a special commodity that can be exchanged. This special commodity has the same use value as general commodities, and the process of producing this special commodity is service. Fourth, tourism dependence. We understand the dependent characteristics of tourism, and we should make it clear that it is a sensitive and fragile industry, and it is also an industry with certain risks. If a country or region regards it as the only economic pillar, once there is a huge fluctuation, the consequences will be unimaginable. Fifth, tourism drives. Only in this way can we promote the development of other industries that directly or indirectly provide services for tourists. So one industry is prosperous and all industries are prosperous. Sixth, tourism is export-oriented. Modern tourism is a cross-regional and cross-border extensive interpersonal activity with obvious extroversion or foreign-related nature. Seventh, tourism is seasonal. The seasonality of tourism in a country or region is closely related to the tourism activities in that country or region and is determined by the seasonality of tourism activities. However, visiting cultural tourism resources is generally not limited by seasons.