Red tourism is an innovative way to strengthen and improve patriotism education, revolutionary traditional education, civic moral education, ideological and moral construction of minors, and ideological and political education of college students in the new era. Red tourism, red is connotation, resources, characteristics, brand, Tourism is the essence, that is, red tourism is essentially a tourism activity, and it cannot be directly equated with patriotic education, revolutionary traditional education. What does this text tell us? ['Red tourism has strong political, economic, and cultural functions.', 'Red tourism has become an important political project, cultural project.', 'Red tourism has a strong political function, but the most important feature is its tourism function.', 'Red tourism can closely integrate tourism with economic development.']