What are the basic characteristics of the tourism industry?

Basic characteristics of the tourism industry:

The tourism industry is a comprehensive industry integrating travel, tourism, accommodation, food, shopping, entertainment and other services, and the fundamental purpose of developing the tourism industry is to achieve economic benefits, and the tourism industry itself consists of travel agencies, hotels as a representative of the accommodation industry and transportation and passenger transport and other profit-oriented and independent accounting of the economic organization of a large number of people.

The services provided by the tourism industry to tourists are a special commodity that can be exchanged, and this special commodity has the same value of use as the general commodity, and the process of producing this special commodity is the service.

It is a sensitive and fragile industry, and at the same time, it is also an industry with a certain degree of risk. If a country or region regards it as the only pillar of the economy, once a huge fluctuation occurs, the consequences are unimaginable.

The seasonality of a country or region's tourism industry is closely related to the country's or region's tourism activities, and is determined by the seasonality of tourism activities. However, visiting humanities tourism resources is generally not limited by the seasons.

The tourism industry is also a sensitive and fragile industry with a certain degree of risk. If a country or region regards it as the only pillar of the economy, once a huge fluctuation occurs, the consequences are unimaginable.

Expanded Information:

The tourism industry is a cross-sectoral industry. p>The tourism industry has the comprehensive complexity of cross-industry and multi-links with the characteristics of service consumption, tourism products are very strong interdependence, and need to improve and quality assurance of all links in the service chain. Therefore, the tourism industry is more like a "pan-tourism industry structure based on the industry contained in the tourism industry itself, and associated with the primary industry, secondary industry and tertiary industry in the health and sports, culture and art, finance, public **** services and other related industries".

The economic nature of the tourism industry is based on the premise of "transportation of tourists", which produces the economic effect of terminal consumption of tourists in different places (or different residential living areas). This transport, the "market" to the destination, transported to the scenic area, transported to the commercial area, transported to the recreation area, transported to the resort area, transported to the suburbs, transported to the countryside.

Tourism is a labor-intensive industry with many levels of employment, a wide range of aspects, a broad market, and a great role in driving the employment of the whole society. From a global point of view, in 2009, tourism employment reached 200 million people, accounting for 8% of all employment. From China's point of view, in 2001, tourism direct employment of 6.98 million people, the total number of tourism employment of 35.78 million people, the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period, the new tourism direct employment of about 3 million people, driven by indirect employment of about 17 million people.

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Tourism Industry