旅游与文化的关系英文

期末论文

旅游英语

2011年12月27日

On the relationship of Travel and Culture

摘要：通过对文化与旅游之间的作用和影响来简单地分析文化与旅游的关系。文化是旅游资源的源泉，旅游则又有利于挖掘文化，文化与旅游相辅相成，密不可分

Abstract: This paper briefly represents the relationship of travel and culture by analyzing the interdependent and interactive relationship between travel and culture. Culture is source of tourist resources and travel is helpful to explore and discover culture, so travel has an impartible contact with culture, they are interdependent and mutually reinforced.

Key words: travel culture interaction interrelation

一，Introduction

Travel as the consequence of promotion of culture, that is to say, without culture,

without change of perception, so without motivation of travel, and one of the core elements of sustainable travel development is culture-oriented development. Or，to put it another way: culture as the core element of travel development is spread by the activity of travel, and travel as the carrier of culture transmits and carries forward culture. Thus it can be seen, the relationship of travel and culture is interrelation interaction and mutual influence.

二，Their relationship will be discussed from two aspects.

1 , The influence of culture on travel

Culture offers a possibility for people to travel. Culture is a creation of mankind, not a natural, also it throughout the process of human evolution and development, which is the fruit of labouring people and is showed in human social activities, so culture has the ability of attracting people. For example, Huangshan that are natural mountains have become a popular scenic spot that everyone has the right to access to them for people modifying them; another example, Beijing’s Bird Nest is not only a gymnasium, but also a tourist attraction because it shows people the culture of modern architectural.

The form of travel bases on the type of culture. There are three types of culture, （1 material culture, like historical relic and site, people go travel to touch the substance; （2 spiritual culture, like religious temples and churches, people go travel to learn new culture; （3 behavioral culture, like ethnic customs, people go travel to experience unique customs of other lands.

Culture diversity is one of the important tourist resources. Most tourist resources contain culture connotation. Religious with different culture, such as Yunna Dali temple, Potala Palace in Tibet; Historical remains with different history, like Forbidden city in Beijing and Petra Jordan; Natural landscape , Guilin scenery, National minorities customs, Dai nationality’Water-Splashing festival or Zhuang nationality’ March 3rd festival, and so on. There are so many scenic spots including various culture that travel has become more attractive. Therefore, culture became an inexhaustible source and help tourism develop continuously.

2 ，The effect of travel on culture

Travel can boost the preservation and transmission of culture. With thousands of tourists flow into, the demand of culture become increasing large, which can revive the traditional culture what are on the verge of losing , As a result of resuscitating and then joining into market, traditional culture gains reconstitution and rebirth. Also, because people come and go, traditional culture spread widely. For example, Datong is an ancient civilized city has Yungang Grottoes only, which is not enough for Datong develop itself, so Tourist Administration announce that they have to maximize the value of travel resource.

Travel help to explore and discover culture. By nature, travel is an activity that experiencing different culture. In term of tourists, travel is a process of cultural consumption, they go travel to meet the demand of culture. It drives people explore