Tourism

Wikipedia said "Tourism is travel for recreation, leisure, religious, family or business purposes, usually for a limited duration. Tourism is commonly associated with international travel, but may also refer to travel to another place within the same country. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes

►Tourism is the travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. It is the industry of travel, hotels, transportation that serves the needs and wants of travelers. It is the process, activities, and outcomes arising from the relationships and the interactions among tourists, tourism suppliers, host governments, host communities and surrounding environments that are involved in the attracting and hosting of visitors -Goeldner &Brent Richie, 2006

►Created a good working definition of tourism as "the temporary movement of people to destinations outside their normal places of work and residence, the activities undertaken during their stay in those destinations, and the facilities created to cater to their needs" -Mathieson and Wall (1982)

 

►Tourism is "the sum of the phenomena and relationships arising from the interaction of tourists, business suppliers, host governments and host communities in the process of attracting and hosting these tourists and other visitors." -
Macintosh

►Any person visiting a country, other than that in which he/she usually resides, for a period of at least 24 hours Committee of Statistical Experts of the League of Nations -Goeldne