The role of modern tourism (1) meets human needs. Modern society has a fast pace and great intensity. People need to use their leisure time to travel, which achieves the purpose of recuperation, making up for consumption and restoring physical and mental strength. This demand is mainly aimed at tourists who participate in social work. We can boil it down to "meeting the compensatory consumption demand of human beings". Moreover, people often accumulate cultural knowledge and improve their scientific level through various forms of study and training. Tourism activities have opened up a vast world for people to get comprehensive and comprehensive development in their leisure time. This shows that tourism activities can also "meet people's development needs". Third, most people travel to enrich their cultural life and exercise. That is, "meet the needs of human entertainment, exercise and so on." (2) promoting economic development 1. Developing imported tourism can increase foreign exchange income. According to statistics, from 1950 to 2000, international tourism revenue soared from 2 1 100 million dollars to more than 400 billion dollars. This shows that international tourism has caused the redistribution of national income in the world, thus greatly increasing the national income of tourist receiving countries. 2. Domestic tourism-Refund money to stabilize the market During May 1, 2000, the average daily consumption of domestic tourists was over 2 billion yuan, and the domestic tourism income reached 654.38+08 billion yuan. At present, the per capita tourism consumption in China is about 142.65 yuan. 3. Expanding employment tourism is basically a labor-intensive service industry that needs a lot of labor. It has the characteristics of less capital demand, greater labor demand, less technical restrictions and short training period for personnel. Therefore, developing tourism is a major way to solve social employment. It has promoted the development of the national economy, and now it has formed a situation of vigorous development of tourism. Tourism is a comprehensive industry, which can not only promote the development of the tertiary industry such as hotels, restaurants, transportation, construction, commodity trade and finance, but also promote the industrial sectors such as agricultural and sideline products processing industry, building materials and transportation machinery, as well as the development of tourism education for training various managers for tourism. (3) Expanding tourism exchanges can enhance people's understanding and expand exchanges. Tourism is a messenger of peace and a bridge of friendship, which can play a unique role in obeying and serving the overall situation of national politics, culture and diplomacy. Tourism is a channel for people-to-people friendly exchanges and friendship, and also an effective way to carry out people-to-people diplomacy. With the rapid development of China citizens' overseas tourism market, becoming the destination of China citizens' overseas tourism is an important content of high-level talks between many countries in the world and China. Tourism is an indispensable part of people's lifestyle in modern society, and it is the product of the development and progress of human society. It is bound to enrich new contents with the development of economy and society. In the process of its development, it also affects the development of social economy and the changes of people's lifestyles and habits.