About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: Tourist attraction, List of heritage railways, Travel, Camping, Equitable Tourism Options, Virar, Heritage commodification, Tourism region, Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report, Tourism carrying capacity, Overlanding, Nature park, Tourist landscape, Camping coach, Hippie trail, Artisans of Leisure, European Youth Card, Travel technology, Leakage effect, Tourism Concern, Duck tour, Souvenir, Health tourism provider, Tourist trap, Online Booking System, Tourism technology, Scenic route, Suitcase, Tourist trolley, Club of the Most Beautiful Bays of the World, Tour operator, Allotment, Samoa Tourism Authority, Free Independent Traveler, Honeypot, Welcome sign, Travel to Teach, Wine route, Rural crafts, Semi submarine, Nature center, Tourism with a Hand Lens, Taiwan This Month, Destination marketing, Opaque travel inventory, Destination alliance, Mount Elephant, Albergo diffuso, Green Key, Serbia 4u, Gringo Trail, Vanilla Islands, Apung 1, Tourist destination, Justice tourism, Luftkurort. Excerpt: Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than twenty-four (24) hours and 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." Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. In 2010, there were over 940 million international tourist arrivals, with a growth of 6.6% as compared to 2009. International tourism receipts grew to US$919 billion (euro 693 billion) in 2010, corresponding to an increase in real terms of 4.7%. As a result of the late-2000s recession, international travel demand suffered a strong slowdown beginning in June 2008, with growth in inter...
