What is the Tourisme

Tourisme

Touristes devant les portes de la salle de prière de la Grande Mosquée de Kairouan.

tourism
Tourists in front of the doors of the prayer hall of the Great Mosque of Kairouan.
Maurice Prendergast, Visitors Summer 1897

Tourism is the act of traveling into or browse for fun, a place other than where it normally lives, which may involve the use of an overnight stay at a hotel and possibly the book title transport.

Initially attached to leisure and health, tourism now also encompasses all economic activities in which the person uses during an unusual move (transport, hotels, restaurants, bars, etc.).

It may be, for example, a business trip (this is called "business tourism") or a religious pilgrimage ("cultural tourism") or to travel in order to have sex with indigenous ("sex tourism"). One can also seek treatment in another country than where you live, it is called medical tourism.

Practicing tourism also allows pausing in his schedule utility imposed by the need to earn a living time.

Tourists are generally interested in culture or landscapes he visits. This practice has long been the preserve of the wealthy who could afford to travel, to see the remarkable buildings, works of art or taste other cuisines.

Tourism has spawned an industry where the middle classes in Western countries (Europe and North America) could start traveling. This is a general improvement in living standards that allowed people to spend more time on leisure activities, including tourism, not to mention the considerable progress in transportation (marine, rail and especially air).

Four international organizations (Statistical Commission of the United Nations (in), World Tourism Organization, Eurostat and OECD) defined this term. "'Tourism' includes the activities of people during their journeys to and staying in places outside their usual environment for a consecutive period not exceeding one year, for leisure, for business and other reasons not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited. "1

 

 

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