High-quality development is essential to Chinese modernization. As a strategic pillar industry, tourism plays a key role in the Chinese national economy and in people’s livelihoods. It is, therefore, imperative to promote high-quality tourism development. This paper focuses on such important issues as theoretical connotation, opportunities and challenges, strategic priorities, and logical approaches to high-quality tourism development from the perspective of Chinese modernization. The core insights are as follows: (1) The theoretical connotation of high-quality tourism development from the perspective of Chinese modernization should be understood with a view to satisfying public needs with higher-quality services, promoting common prosperity, continuously boosting the in-depth integration of culture and tourism, promoting the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, and serving as a bridge of peace; (2) To promote high-quality development of cultural tourism from the perspective of Chinese modernization, it is necessary to clarify the realistic, academic, and promotional rationales for the development of high-quality modernized Chinese tourism; (3) A new method of high-quality tourism development can be explored with a focus on high-quality tourism supply, coordinated development of the tourism industry, in-depth integration of culture and tourism, and green transformation of the tourism industry; (4) High-quality tourism development will help create a new variety of Chinese modernization through establishing a more resilient cultural and tourism supply, activating and guiding inclusive cultural tourism consumption, comprehensively promoting the in-depth integration and innovation of cultural tourism, and establishing a higher-quality cultural tourism service system; (5) Promoting high-quality rural tourism development and opening up the transformational channel of “turning lucid waters and lush mountains into invaluable assets” are conducive to revitalizing rural areas, gradually realizing common prosperity, and expediting Chinese modernization.

Amenities and scenes are the products of specific times and have an intrinsic relation with mainstream values. With the change in social values, the understanding of amenities is also changing and being replaced with new ideas. To dissect social dynamics and the process of value formation, this paper deconstructs the generative characteristics of amenities as a form of culture, analyzing the trends of returning to natural amenities, prevalence of consumer amenities, and scenes and amenities in the post-industrial age as amenities transform in response to changing demand. The primary aim of this paper is to provide insights and advice for the development of scenes and national amenities in the Chinese context. The upcoming post-industrial era will witness the joint efforts of planners, designers, and creative workers in their endeavor to inject cultural creativity and artistic aesthetics into people’s daily lives. Creating scenes and amenities should not be limited merely to the construction of a combination of infrastructures, and elements such as aesthetics and culture should also be incorporated, with importance being attached to aesthetics as a part of human integrity.