Tourism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article focuses on travel. For other uses of Tourism and Tourism, see Tourist (disambiguation). Modern tourists take pictures from a open top bus tour. Backpackers
Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure, family or business, usually for a limited time. Tourism is often associated with trans-national travel, but can also refer to travel to another location in the same country. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists 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." [1]
Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. Tourism can be national or international, and international tourism has both incoming and outgoing consequences on the balance of payments of the country. Today, tourism is a major source of income for many countries and affects the economies of both the source and the host, in some cases, it is of vital importance.
Tourism suffered as a result of a severe economic downturn of the late 2000s recession, between the second half of 2008 and the end of 2009 and the outbreak of H1N1 flu. [2] [3] He then recovered slowly, with international tourist arrivals have surpassed the 1 billion tourists in the world for the first time in history in 2012 [4] International tourism receipts (the element Travel in the balance of payments) amounted to (€ 740 billion) $ 1.03 trillion in 2011, corresponding to a rise in real terms by 3.8% compared to 2010 [5] In 2012, the China has become the largest international tourism spender in the world with $ 102 billion, surpassing Germany and the United States. China and emerging markets significantly increase spending during the past decade, with Russia and Brazil as notable examples. [6]
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