In China， tourism is the core of tertiary industry, the important component of modern service industry. Tourism has great contribution to many other domestic industries such as lodging industry, civil aviation, and rail way transport and cultural entertainment industry and catering industry. In a word, tourism has contributed a lot to the GDP growth of our nation.

   In addition, the impact of tourism on environment is also considerable. Unfortunately, quite many impacts are adverse. Many tourism areas have suffered from pollution caused by tourists. These pollutions mainly are pollution of water, air and the damage to local eco-environment, etc.

    To conclude, tourism has really advantages and disadvantages over our society as a whole. To generate more value for our society, we should take better advantage of our tourism resource.