Tourism is the act of travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes, and also refers to the provision of services in support of this act. According to the World Tourism Organization, tourists are people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited". The distance between a place of origin and a destination is immaterial to this definition. Tourism has become an extremely popular global activity.
As a service industry, tourism has numerous tangible and intangible elements. The major tangible elements include transportation, accommodation, and other components of a hospitality industry. The major intangible elements relate to the purpose or motivation for becoming a tourist, such as rest, relaxation, opportunity to meet new people and experience other cultures, or simply to do something different and have an adventure.
[...] Tourism brings new money and business to an area. Role of hotels in tourism The hospitality sector plays a significant role in the development of tourism because they are indispensable in providing goods and services such as food and shelter in a warm, homely, and secure atmosphere. Hotels are the basic infrastructure for the tourism industry. The absence of hotels at a particular place may deter the tourists from visiting that place. Also, for the tourism industry to be successful, it is necessary that there is accommodation in sufficient quantity and in conformity with the requirements of the various classes of tourists. [...]
[...] Bookstore tourism is a grassroots effort to support independent bookstores by promoting them as a travel destination. Cultural tourism: includes urban tourism, visiting historical or interesting cities, such as Berlin, Lahore, Lima, Buenos Aires, London, Paris, Delhi, Rome, Prague, Dubrovnik, Beijing, Istanbul, Kyoto, Warsaw, and experiencing their cultural heritage. This type of tourism may also include specialized cultural experiences, such as art museum tourism where the tourist visits many art museums during the tour, or opera tourism where the tourist sees many operas or concerts during the tour. [...]
[...] Hobby tourism: tourism alone or with groups to participate in hobby interests, to meet others with similar interests, or to experience something pertinent to the hobby. Examples might be garden tours, amateur radio expeditions, or square dance cruises. Inclusive tourism: tourism marketed to those with functional limits or disabilities. Referred to as "Tourism for All" in some regions. Destinations often employ Universal Design and Universal Destination Development principles. Medical tourism: for what is illegal in one's own country, such as abortion or euthanasia for advanced care that is not available in one's own country in the case that there are long waiting lists in one's own country for use of free or cheap health care organizations Pop-culture tourism: tourism by those that visit a particular location after reading about it or seeing it in a film. [...]
[...] For an all inclusive price of 32.10 holiday makers could sleep under canvas, sample local wines and eat a meal containing meat twice a day - this was especially attractive due to the continuing austerity measures in post-war United Kingdom. Within ten years, his company had started mass tourism to Palma (1952), Lourdes (1953), Costa Brava (1954), Sardinia (1954), Minorca (1955), Porto (1956), Costa Blanca (1957) and Costa del Sol (1959). However it was with cheap air travel in combination with package tours that international mass tourism developed. [...]
[...] But if they were purchased by a tour operator and hidden within the price of an inclusive holiday package, it would be difficult to prove that discounting had taken place - even though it was obvious that it had. This was the origin of the modern mass package tour. These developments coincided with a significant increase in the standard of living in Britain. At the end of the 1950s, Harold Macmillan could say "you've never had it so good." Another significant development also happened at the end of this decade. [...]
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