It is a common sense that the new technologies, especially the internet, have impact almost any corners of the human society, including the tourism. While the author hold the point that the emerge op the internet and television will drive the tourism out of the history stage, I hold the contrary view. I believe the internet and the television will contribute to the development of the tourism.
To begin with, the program introducing the hot point of the world will encourage people to have a tour to the very locate. From the beautiful image of the Hawaii showed in the screen of the television or the computers, every one may have an impulse to go there for a vocation; from the great image and introduce of the Great Wall, all average people will have a desire to have a touch of the famous historical work. As a result the emerging of the internet and the television will not undermine the tourism but contribute to the prosperity of this industry.
Besides the programs of the television and the websites can provide some knowledge to the common people, as a result, they can get the back ground of the tour destination, which contributed to the better understand of the landscape. In this condition the tourists can be informed what to focus on in their tourism.
Further more we should consider that the tour is an experience from which people can get pleasure. As a result, it can not be replaced by the program of the television as well as the introduction in the web sites. Form the programs of the television and the web sites we can only get the image of a particular corner of the hot places but not the whole one. What is more, the programs can not give an ambience of the very locate. In some tour destinations, one of the important parts of the activities is the mete hold in the night. In this condition no matter how vivid those programs are, people can not be involved in the activities of this kind. Many cases of this kind can be illustrated: you can not get the feeling of inhale the fresh air of the Bousting in the Australian unless you come there; you can not touch the wonderful feeling of the Grand Canyon until you come to the bottom of it. So in this concern, watching in the screen and touching in the very point are absolutely two different conceptions.
For all aspects mentioned above, the emergence of the internet and the television contribute to the further development of the tourism. In this progress they act as lure and guide for the tourists.