A Literature Review of Social Value of Tourism

Qian Wang

Tourism Management Department, School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China

Abstract: Tourism is an industry involving many aspects and fields. It plays different roles in society and individual tourists. By sorting out the literature about the social value of tourism in recent years, this paper explores the aesthetic value, comfortable physical and mental value, cultural value, spiritual value, educational value and social development value of tourism. It is found that there are some problems in the existing research, such as the monotony of research methods and the lack of interdisciplinary research.

Keywords: Tourism; Social value