(tour•ism) n. – the business of providing services for tourists, including organizing their travel, hotels, entertainment, etc.
The concept of all the features used for traveling for whatever reasons and the travel industry components as a whole.
The temporary short-term movement of people to destinations outside the places where they normally live and work and the activities during their stay at these destinations.
(noun): the practice of traveling for recreation
the all-embracing term for the movement of people to destinations away from their place of residence for any reason other than following an occupation, remunerated from within the country visited, for a period of 24 hours or more
the business of providing services to tourists; "Tourism is a major business in Bermuda"
The practice of traveling for pleasure
The short term movement of people away from their normal place of residence or work (English Tourist Board definition).
generally avoided in this study, this can be used to refer to pleasure or personal travel, a subset of travel
The set of activities of a person travelling to a place outside his or her usual environment for at least one night and for less than 12 months, and whose main purpose of travel is other than the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited.
The activity of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business or any other purpose. (United Nations approved definition)
People visiting different areas of their home country or foreign countries for holidays.
Comprises the activities of persons traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited.
Occupation of providing local services such as entertainment, accommodation and catering for tourists.
The business of providing and marketing services and facilities for pleasure travellers. Thus, the concept or tourism is of direct concern to governments, carriers, and the lodging, restaurant and entertainment industries and of indirect concern to virtually every industry and business in the world.
Tourism is the act of travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes, and also refers to the provision of services in support of this act. According to the World Tourism Organization, tourists are people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited".
