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Tourism – travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. [1] Tourism may be international, or within the traveller's country.
Tourists at the Temple of Apollo, Delphi, Greece. Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. [1] UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more ...
Tourists at Niagara Falls.. Tourism geography is the study of travel and tourism, as an industry and as a social and cultural activity. Tourism geography covers a wide range of interests including the environmental impact of tourism, the geographies of tourism and leisure economies, answering tourism industry and management concerns and the sociology of tourism and locations of tourism.
For example, both the plan of a business trip and the route of a road trip, or the proposed outline of one, are travel itineraries. The construction of a travel itinerary may be assisted by the use of travel literature , including travel journals and diaries, a guide book containing information for visitors or tourists about the destination, or ...
Overcrowded tourists at Maya beach, Thailand, in 2013. Tourism carrying capacity (TCC) is an imperfect [1] but useful approach to managing visitors in vulnerable areas. [2] The TCC concept evolved out of the fields of range, habitat and wildlife management.
Smart tourism is an important component of a smart city. [1] [2] Tourism is one of the major components of economic growth for communities worldwide.A key requirement of tourism has been to attract more and more tourists from different parts of the world.
Heritage tourism is a branch of tourism centered around the exploration and appreciation of a region's cultural, historical and environmental heritage. [1] This form of tourism includes both tangible elements, such as historically significant sites , monuments , and artifacts , as well as intangible aspects, such as traditions , customs , and ...
Meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions tourism (MICE tourism) is a type of tourism in which large groups, usually planned well in advance, are brought together. Recently there has been an industry trend toward using the term "meetings industry" to avoid confusion from the acronym. [ 1 ]