The tourism industry, internationally known as the tourism industry, is by virtue of tourism resources and facilities, specializing in or mainly engaged in soliciting and receiving tourists, providing them with transportation, excursions, lodging, food and beverage, shopping, recreation, and other six segments of the integrated industry. Tourism business should be composed of three parts: tourism, transportation and accommodation represented by hotels. They are the three pillars of tourism.
The catering industry refers to the catering service organizations for the purpose of commercial profit. In China, according to the definition of the National Economic Industry Classification Notes, catering refers to the service activities in a certain place where food is cooked and prepared on site and sold to customers mainly for on-site consumption.