What is tourism?

The definition of tourism by the World Tourism Organization and the United Nations has the following influences:

-Establish a unified basis for collecting standardized tourism data.

-Most countries adopt these definitions, but not all countries abide by their restrictions.

Tourism is an industry that provides tourists with sightseeing services based on tourism resources and facilities. Also known as smokeless industry and invisible trade. Tourism resources, tourism facilities and tourism services are the three major elements for the survival and development of tourism. Tourism resources, including natural scenery, historical sites, revolutionary sites, construction achievements, ethnic customs and so on. , is the attractive ability to operate tourism; Tourist facilities, including tourist transportation facilities, tourist accommodation facilities, tourist catering facilities, tourist amusement facilities, etc. ; Tourism service, including all kinds of labor service and management behavior, is the reception capacity of tourism management. In a narrow sense, tourism in China mainly refers to travel agencies, hotels, travel companies and tourism enterprises that specialize in selling tourism commodities. Tourism in a broad sense includes all walks of life related to tourism, in addition to departments specializing in tourism business. As a new and advanced form of social consumption, tourism often organically combines material life consumption with cultural life consumption. From the perspective of business types, there are three main types of tourism: ① organizing domestic tourists to travel and visit in their own countries. ② Organize domestic tourists to travel abroad. (3) to receive or attract foreigners to visit their own countries. The latter two kinds of tourism business activities are both foreign-related businesses. Because tourism mainly provides intangible utility to the society through the form of labor services, that is, special use value to meet the consumption needs of tourists for sightseeing. The basic feature of its industry is unproductive, so it is also called smokeless industry. On the whole, tourism is not an economic sector to realize commodity circulation, but relies on tourism resources and facilities to provide services such as food, housing, transportation, entertainment and shopping to meet the needs of tourists' travel and consumption. So it is also called invisible trade.