Tourism

definition :

Tourism includes all the phenomena and relationships connected with leaving the usual place of residence and staying at another destination. This leads to a variety of travel types and actors in tourism. Economic, ecological, intercultural and infrastructural objectives form the core of tourism policy and tourism organizations. The tourism industry is one of the most important economic sectors in many regions and countries due to its positive income, employment and foreign exchange effects. Growth in tourism will continue around the world, but depending on destinations, there will be stagnation and expansion.

term
Tourism (tourism, tourist travel) includes all the phenomena and relationships connected with leaving the usual center of life and staying at another destination or traveling to another region. The criterion of movement outside the usual working and living environment is the sole determinant of the term.

species
The concrete manifestations of tourist behavior lead to typologies of travel types. For national tourism policy and statistical reasons, the travel flows are divided into domestic tourism, incomingtourism and outgoingtourism.

demarcation
In contrast to tourism, tourism is the institutional industry term. That tourism refers to the totality of commercial and non-profit organizations (NPO) that produce tourism services.

Tourism economic and tourism policy goals
For companies operating in the tourism industry, their goal of acquisition is usually the decisive motive of their actions. In contrast, tourism policy goals of supranational organizations, states, states, regions and municipalities are to promote income, to pursue structural and labor market issues as well as regional policy concerns and, overall, to raise the standard of living of the population.

Development of the term
In principle, tourism is as old as the history of humanity. As is well known, travel in the early days of history have u.a. for spiritual or religious motives as well as for the purpose of exploring more remote regions and / or researching more attractive environmental conditions. The first documented holiday packages in the modern sense were organized from 1841 by the British Thomas Cook. Decisive determinants of the development of world tourism are v.a. the increase in labor productivity achieved by technical progress, and the associated increase in individual incomes as well as increased leisure time. Furthermore, the increased life expectancy, the higher standard of living and, as a consequence, the increased level of education of large parts of the world population, which are increasingly concentrated in urban agglomerations, deserve special mention. In addition, the development of transport on land, water and air, the development of information technology, as well as the elimination or permeability of previously existing political borders, provide crucial impetus for the ever-increasing economic importance of tourism.

Representation of the underlying tourism model
As an example of a holistic or modular tourism model, the schematic diagram developed by W. Freyer is presented here.