Talk about your understanding of tourism.

(1) Tourism is an interdisciplinary comprehensive science.

Intersection and synthesis are two major trends in the development of science in the world at present, and they are effective means to produce new disciplines through collision. Interdisciplinary crossing refers to the crossing between different disciplines such as natural science, social science and natural and social science, which embodies the objective law of scientific development and is independent of human will. Subject synthesis means that on the basis of more and more specialties and branches, there are more and more links between branches, which penetrate and combine with each other in various ways, and then show a comprehensive trend. Taking tourism as an example, this discipline has spawned dozens of related disciplines such as tourism geography, tourism economics, tourism resources, tourism psychology, tourism marketing and tourism aesthetics.

(b) Tourism is fundamentally subordinate to soft science.

Soft science refers to the interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary comprehensive research on human, nature and society based on some systematic scientific theories, modern scientific knowledge and technical means. Tourism is an interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary study of the tourism system with the connotation of people, things and things, which effectively combines quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis to serve the development and utilization of tourism resources and improve the relationship between tourism and other related industries. According to the function of tourism, tourism should belong to soft science.

Tourism also has many characteristics consistent with soft science. For example, it integrates many disciplines, and its research scope is very wide, including not only tourism-related disciplines and issues, but also some important environmental issues and major decisions related to human development; The theoretical basis of tourism is not only geography and economics, but also culture and psychology, which is diverse and comprehensive. The development of tourism depends not only on its own discipline development, but also on the social background and surrounding human environment. All these show that tourism is actually a soft science.

The research object of tourism [1]

Different scholars have put forward different views on the research object of tourism, which can be summarized into two main views: one view holds that tourism takes three elements of tourism, namely tourists (tourism subject), tourism resources (tourism object) and tourism (tourism media) as the research object; Another point of view is that the research object of tourism science is tourism phenomenon, including the emergence, development and the movement law of its internal relations. The author thinks that the research object of tourism science is tourism system, which includes not only the elements, nature, characteristics, structure and movement law of tourism system, but also the detailed relations within the system. To study tourism, we must first study the internal relations of the tourism system. All the tourism-related workers in the tourism system, including tourists, tourism workers and all kinds of related personnel, the relationship and state between these people is the premise to maintain the benign operation of the tourism system. All the staff of the tourism system should be classified according to specific standards, and different requirements and guidance methods should be given according to different categories to promote the benign operation of the whole system.

Second, tourism should study the relationship between the tourism system and the outside world. The benign development of tourism system can not only rely on internal adjustment and operation, but also need the positive influence and mutual restriction of external objective environment. As an open system, tourism system constantly exchanges people, things, energy and other elements with the external environment, including positive exchange and inhibitory exchange. Once the active communication stops, the whole tourism system will cease to exist.

(B) the purpose and task of tourism research

The purpose of scientific research mainly includes understanding and application. Tourism emphasizes application and the combination of cognition and application. The purpose and task of tourism research is to analyze the ways and methods, optimize the tourism system and put forward constructive suggestions on the basis of theoretical research on the elements of tourism, the relationship and function of each element, and the relationship between tourism system and external environment.

Characteristics of tourism [1]

First of all, tourism is comprehensive. The research object of tourism science is systematic and has many components, and the relationship between them is complex, which determines that the research content of tourism science is comprehensive.

Second, tourism is an interdisciplinary subject. Tourism is a science formed by interdisciplinary synthesis. This feature determines that when studying and discussing tourism-related issues, we should start from different disciplines, focus on the whole, and combine all related disciplines for comprehensive research.

Third, tourism is systematic. Tourism is interdisciplinary, but it also has certain regularity and systematicness, and it is not chaotic. Every tiny part of it has its existence value, and every part is an indispensable element of tourism. Tourism has its own level and unique classification according to its content characteristics, and all contents exist systematically.

Finally, tourism is very practical. The research content of tourism is closely related to social needs, and integrating theory with practice is the best means for tourism to serve social and economic development. Studying tourism is not only to understand its laws, but more importantly, to apply it to practice and create certain economic benefits.