Briefly describe the characteristics of tourism.

The tourism industry has the following characteristics

1. Comprehensive characteristics

Tourism activities to visit as the central content, people in order to achieve the purpose of the visit must also be in the food, housing, transportation, shopping, entertainment and other aspects of consumption. So tourism activities is a comprehensive consumption. Tourism as a bridge between the main body of tourism and the object, to provide, including food, accommodation, transportation, travel, shopping, entertainment and other aspects of the integration of services, to provide a variety of tourism products to meet the diversified tourism needs of tourists. This determines the product of tourism is the product of many enterprises **** with the role of the product. These different types of enterprises, according to the traditional industrial division standard belongs to a number of relatively independent industries, but for tourists to provide products and services business ties will link them together, the formation of the tourism industry within the horizontal links between enterprises. As tourism activities continue to further develop in depth and breadth, the comprehensive characteristics of tourism will become more and more significant.

2. Service characteristics

The tourism industry is characterized by the sale of services as a service industry, which provides tourists with fixed tangible facilities and intangible services, so that tourists get the material enjoyment and spiritual satisfaction, which is based on intangible service products, tangible facilities and products are the tourism industry for the tourists to rely on and means of service. The various components of the tourism industry are scattered in different locations, in different ways, with the help of different service carriers to provide tourists with different content services.

3. Outward-looking characteristics

Tourism activities have the characteristics of heterogeneity, mobility, tourism is cross-regional, cross-border extensive interpersonal activities for tourism activities in the tourism industry to serve the tourism industry produces products are provided to tourists from all countries and places. The process of carrying out various businesses in the tourism industry requires participation in the competition in the domestic and international tourism markets. In the course of its operation, tourism not only has to fulfill the task of generating income and foreign exchange, but also has to promote mutual exchanges among people from different countries and regions, and enhance friendship and understanding among people. The outward-looking nature of the tourism industry requires that it must be based on market demand for the production of tourism products, organization and marketing activities, to carry out cross-regional and cross-border cooperation, respect for the religious beliefs and customs of all countries and nationalities, especially in the work of the international tourism to maintain the country's reputation, and to promote friendly exchanges between the international community.

4. The characteristics of linkage

The tourism industry by meeting the needs of tourists in the process of tourism activities in various aspects, multi-level needs to achieve the purpose of profitability, must involve many related industries, which determines the linkage of the tourism industry to meet the multiple needs of tourists as a link between the many different types of enterprises linked together, each to provide products to meet one aspect of the needs of tourists. The link of satisfying the multiple needs of tourists connects many different types of enterprises, each offering products that satisfy one aspect of the needs of tourists. With the increase in the socialization of tourism, there has been a trend towards the concentration of linkages among tourism-related enterprises, which has been manifested in the form of horizontal and vertical alliances. Horizontal alliance refers to the tourism industry of the same type of enterprise cooperation between different business units.

5. Sensitive characteristics

The development history of tourism activities and the various characteristics of the tourism industry show that the development of the tourism industry is bound to be affected and constrained by a variety of internal and external factors. Internal factors refer to the harmonization of proportionality between the components of the industry and between the various sectors of the industry concerned. External factors refer to a variety of natural, political, economic and social factors. The impact of these factors makes the tourism industry highly volatile within a given period or region, and small changes in both the source and the receiving destinations can have a large impact on tourism demand, thus increasing the instability of the tourism industry's operations. This makes the micro-operation and overall development of the tourism industry has a greater risk, the tourism industry, the various components of the enterprise should continue to improve the operation, adjust the product, innovative business, enhance the basis of risk resistance and resilience.

6. Social Characteristics of Tourism

Into the modern society, tourism is no longer a minority of elite tourism, but the mass of the people's tourism, like eating, clothing, tourism has become part of people's lives, with a wide range of social nature.

7. Tourism is both a labor-intensive industry and capital-intensive

To determine whether an enterprise or industry is labor-intensive or technology-intensive, is to look at the proportion of its wage costs in its total operating costs. A high proportion is labor-intensive and a low proportion is technology-intensive. As the product of tourism is to provide labor-based tourism services, compared with other industries, there is no cost of goods sold or less cost of goods sold, so that the wage cost in the total operating costs accounted for a larger proportion. That is why tourism is known as a labor-intensive industry, which is internationally recognized. In general the tourism sector every additional service personnel, the community must increase five indirect service personnel to match, so the tourism industry has become an important industry to absorb the labor force in various countries.

8. Tourism's foreign characteristics

Tourism's foreign nature of the tourism industry to our tourism practitioners pushed to the forefront of diplomacy, which requires that our tourism practitioners have the quality of diplomats, master the necessary knowledge of foreign affairs, especially their own speech and demeanor, pay attention to the maintenance of the country and the image and dignity of the nation.

9. Seasonal Characteristics of Tourism

The tourism reception capacity is insufficient during the peak season, while the tourism reception capacity is idle during the off-season. How to solve these problems: generally take two methods: one is the use of tourism differential prices to regulate the off-peak season, the peak season to adjust the price, so that some tourists to miss the peak period of tourism, the off-season to adjust the price, so that there is leisure time for tourists, make full use of tourism reception capacity. For example, the price during the Golden Week is one quarter higher than the usual price. The second is to hire more temporary workers, such as hotel service staff, part-time tour guides, etc. during the peak season.

10. Vulnerability characteristics of tourism

War or disaster and other reasons will stagnate the development of tourism, such as the 911 incident, the United States and the West's tourism industry has been hit hard; fought for eight years in the Iran-Iraq war, so that the tourism industry in Iran and Iraq based on a devastating loss.