What is Tourism ? II Introduction to Tourism

Tourism is concerned with pleasure, holidays, travel and going or arriving somewhere. These are the motivations that makes people leave their "normal" place of work and residence for short -term temporary visits to *'other" places

Tourism, as significant social phenomena, involves a temporary break with normal routine to engage with experiences that contrast with everyday life, with the mundane

Tourism is concerned with consuming goods and services. For example, you need &me mode of transport, soma form of accommodation to stay and so on. However, the only reason for the consumption of such services and goods is that we have a pleasurable expedieme or that we enjoy ourselves. A part of the enjoyment is in the fact that thew goods and smces are different from what we typically consume every day.

According to WTO

According to the W.T.O. tourism is the movement of people away from their normal place of residence and work for a period of not less than 24 hours and not more than 1 year.

According to Hunziker and Krapf

According to Hunziker and Krapf tourism is "the sum of the phenomena and relationships arising from the travel and stay of non-residents, in so far as it do not lead to permanent residence and is not connected to any earning activity". This definition emphasizes travel and stay, but excludes day trips, business trips etc. and the overlapping of these boundaries with other practices.

The Tourism Society of Britain

The Tourism Society of Britain in 1976 proposed to clarify the concept of tourism by saying that "Tourism is the temporary, short-term movement of people to destinations outside the places where they normally live and work and their activities during their stay at these destinations, including day visits and excursions."