铸牢中华民族共同体意识的旅游发展路径.

Tourism is not only an economic activity, but also a social and cultural activity. These attributes are the foundation for tourism to forge a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation. Tourism narrows the economic gap, promotes prosperity for all, enhances tourists'sense of pride of being a Chinese, helps tourists get the essence of Chinese culture, and facilitates cultural assimilation of different ethnic groups. These functions make it possible to forge a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation through tourism. Tourism is supposed to make people of all ethnic groups, especially those from underdeveloped areas, to feel a sense of gain, to promote and spread positive philosophy and good people's ideas, and to advance migration of people of ethnic groups and build of inter-embedded social structure so as to achieve the goal of forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]