What are the basic characteristics of tourism resources?

Tourism resources are the premise and foundation of tourism development. Tourism resources mainly include natural landscape tourism resources and human landscape tourism resources. Natural scenic tourism resources include mountains, canyons, forests, volcanoes, rivers, lakes, beaches, hot springs, wildlife and climate, which can be summarized into four categories: landform, hydrology, climate and biology. Cultural landscape tourism resources include historical and cultural sites, ancient buildings, ethnic customs, new achievements in modern construction, food, shopping, culture and art, sports and entertainment, etc., which can be summarized into four categories: cultural scenery, cultural traditions, people's feelings and customs, sports and entertainment.

① regional differentiation characteristics: tourism resources are the most basic factors that cause tourism activities. Without the regional differentiation of landscape, it is impossible to attract tourists with different needs. The regional differentiation of tourism resources is controlled by physical geography and the law of human social activities, while the former is more direct and obvious, such as the zonal distribution of latitude caused by climate differences; Longitude zonal distribution characteristics influenced by climate dryness and wetness; Vertical zonal distribution characteristics caused by the change of air temperature and heat with height; The concentration distribution characteristics formed by the comprehensive action of internal and external factors include the concentration of size range, lumpy concentration and banded concentration.

② the characteristics of scene combination, including: similar combination and comprehensive combination in terms of species; From the spatial group combination and off-site combination; From the scale, there are combinations of different sizes, local or near-earth group combinations, and long-distance off-site combinations.

③ Similar appearance features, the similar appearance of natural and cultural scenes, which brings convenience to tourists to travel near the earth, but also causes some problems to the development of tourism. For similar scenic spots, it is not easy to revisit them many times and strengthen their special publicity. In addition, there are potential resource characteristics, seasonal variation characteristics and property variation characteristics.