Outline of tourism

Overview and topical guide of tourism
The Old City of Zamość (Poland), built as an ideal city, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to tourism:

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. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", 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".[2]

What type of thing is tourism?

Tourism can be described as all of the following:

  • A form of recreation
  • An economic sector

Types of tourism

History of tourism

History of tourism

Tourism support services

Hospitality industry

Hospitality industry

General tourism concepts

Tourism organizations

Tourism media

Tourism publications

Persons influential in tourism

See also

Lists

References

  1. ^ "tourism". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
  2. ^ "UNWTO technical manual: Collection of Tourism Expenditure Statistics" (PDF). World Tourism Organization. 1995. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 September 2010. Retrieved 26 March 2009.

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