旅游作为社会发展阶段的一个重要指标的思考

社会发展的更高阶段是人追求生存质量为特征，以闲暇时间的充裕为衡量尺度的。从本质上讲，旅游正是一种高质量的生存方式，它以自由时间为基础，通过广泛的自由交征来体验人的生存意义和价值，它体现为一种新的世界文化所以，它应该成为社会发展阶段的一个重要指标，在衡量标准上，可以从群体参与规模，旅游者的发生频率，消费对旅游的依赖程度等方面来把握，需要注意的是，在衡量中要严格区分旅游学与旅游经营学对相似指标的不同理

Thought on Tourism as An Important Standard of a Higher Stage of Society Development

, A higher stage of society development characterized by seeking high quality existence with the measurement of how much free time we can spare.In fact,tourism is right the high quality existence means.It gives every tourist an opportunity to observe and learn from real life by widespread contact with different people and different culture in his free time.It is a kind of new world culture,so it can serve as an important standard in measuring a higher stage of society development,and it can be measured in three index:colony scope of tourist,action frequency of tourist and dependence degree on tourism.More attention should be paid to the different understanding between Tourism and Tourism Management in the same index.