What is tourism?

Relying on tourism resources and based on tourism facilities, it provides tourism products and services to meet the various tourism needs of consumers. Therefore, tourism is not only an economic industry with strong culture, but also an economic cultural industry. According to this definition, we can see that the cultural industry and the tourism industry are mutually integrated, in which the tourism industry can be incorporated into the content of the cultural industry, including the development and construction of cultural tourist attractions for tourists, the tour guide explanation service in tourism activities, the production and sales of tourist souvenirs, handicrafts and consumer goods, and the tourism and entertainment industry. Cultural industry can be included in the tourism industry, including cultural tourism, cultural performances, exhibition tourism, online travel services, tourism education and training, etc. Tourism has the characteristics of culture, economy, comprehensiveness and relative independence. The cultural nature of tourism means that the process and content of tourism activities are related to culture, so there must be culture in tourism activities, and culture is the important foundation and soul of tourism development; Tourism economy means that tourism activities are market economic activities based on tourism products, with tourists and tour operators as the main body and currency as the exchange medium; The comprehensiveness of tourism means that tourism is a comprehensive economic and social activity with the purpose of meeting tourists' consumption needs, providing tourism services as the main body and tourism economic activities as the basis; The independence of tourism means that tourism has gradually formed a relatively independent economic system and industrial structure in the long-term development process, which has different development laws and characteristics from other industries. According to the direct or indirect differences in providing tourism products, tourism is divided into three categories: the first category is the industry that directly faces tourists and provides them with various material products and services; The second category is indirectly oriented to tourists and supports the provision of services for tourists; The third category is the tourism planning and development institutions that indirectly affect tourists and directly affect the first two types of enterprises.