Definition
of tourism
Theobald (1994) suggested that "etymologically, the
word tour is derived from the Latin, 'tornare' and the Greek, 'tornos',
meaning 'a lathe or circle; the movement around a central point or axis'. This
meaning changed in modern English to represent 'one's turn'. The suffix –ism
is defined as 'an action or process; typical behaviour or quality', while the
suffix, –ist denotes 'one that performs a given action'. When the word tour
and the suffixes –ism and –ist are combined, they suggest the
action of movement around a circle. One can argue that a circle represents a
starting point, which ultimately returns back to its beginning. Therefore, like
a circle, a tour represents a journey in that it is a round-trip, i.e., the act
of leaving and then returning to the original starting point, and therefore,
one who takes such a journey can be called a tourist.
Tourism:
general definition
Tourism
comprises the activities of persons travelling to and staying 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.
Tourism is different from travel. In order for tourism to
happen, there must be a displacement: an individual has to travel, using any
type of means of transportation (he might even travel on foot: nowadays, it is
often the case for poorer societies, and happens even in more developed ones,
and concerns pilgrims, hikers …). But all travel is not tourism. Tourism has a
direct impact on the national revenue for all touristic countries, it creates
work opportunities, industries, and several investments to serve and raise
nations performance and cultures, also distributes their history, civilization,
and traditions
Tourism is important, and in some cases, vital for
many countries.
It was recognized in the Manila Declaration on World Tourism of 1980 as
"an activity essential to the life of nations because of its direct
effects on the social, cultural, educational and economic sectors of national
societies and on their international relations.
Three
criteria are used simultaneously in order to characterize a trip as belonging
to tourism. The displacement must be such that:
·
It
involves a displacement outside the usual environment: this
term is of
utmost
importance and will be discussed later on;
·
Type
of purpose: the travel must occur for any purpose different from
being
remunerated
from within the place visited: the previous limits, where tourism
was
restricted to recreation and visiting family and friends are now expanded
to
include a vast array of purposes;
·
Duration:
only a maximal duration is mentioned, not a minimal. Tourism
displacement
can be with or without an overnight stay. We shall discuss the
particularity of in transit visits, from a
conceptual and statistical point of view.
http://torc.linkbc.ca/torc/downs1/WTOdefinitiontourism.pdf
Tourism is
an activity done by an individual or a group of individuals, which leads to a
motion from a place to another. From a country to another for performing a
specific task, or it is a visit to a place or several places in the purpose of
entertaining which leads to an awareness of other civilizations and cultures,
also increasing the knowledge of countries, cultures, and history
Tourism
has a direct impact on the national revenue for all touristic countries, it
creates work opportunities, industries, and several investments to serve and
raise nations performance and cultures, also distributes their history,
civilization, and traditions
Tourism is
an important industry that depends on culture and science
Tourism
industry in Alexandria is reviving an ingrained past where Alexandria was the
hub of East-West commerce, achieving a present that possesses all tourism
industry assets, and orienting a future where touristic development,
environmental and urban development, and touristic investments are essential
posts of Alexandria touristic future
http://www.discoveralex.com/GeneralDepart_EN/Description.asp
Since
tourism is traditionally studied and examined in relation to geographic places
or space, it is understandable that some tourism marketing organizations lack
confidence in and basic understandings ofhow avirtual community can be used as a marketing tool. However, we
cannot afford to ignore the revolutionary changes information technology brings
us, which inherently affect the ways we think oflinkin g up to each other and
our notion about place and space. Fortunately, human beings always react,
consciously and unconsciously, to the places where we live and work, in ways we
scarcely notice or that are only now becoming known to us. As places around us
change both the communities that ‘shelter’ us and the large social environments
that support them will all undergo changes. Since people now can surmount time
and space and ‘be’ anywhere, marketing organizations should adapt accordingly
and embrace this new space as a marketing tool capable oforganiz ing people’s
knowledge about, and desires for, the places they may wish to visit.
http://old.geog.psu.edu/courses/geog497b/Readings/Wang_etal_Virtual%20Tourism.pdf
CONCLUSION
from
many source i can conlude that tourim is vital for many countries especialy in
economy sector because from this a country can take benefit of money for
businesses with their goods and services and the opportunity for employment in
the service industries associated with tourism. and we can definite tourism is
traveling activity that doing some strangers to visit or stay in a place to
refresh or bussiness activity eventhought not all traveling activity called
tourism.
