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INTRODUCTION: TOURISM STUDIES
AND TOURISM
Definitions of TOURISM - some examples
Etymological: tour - tornare (Latin) tornos (Greek)
- Lathe, Circle,
movement around an axis
Lathe
Circle
UNWTO United Nations World Tourism Organisation:
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.
Pearce/Morrison/Rutledge:
Tourism
is the sum of government and private sector activities which shape
and serve the needs and manage the consequences of holiday and business
travel.
Jafari:
Tourism is a study of man
away from his usual habitat, of the industry which responds to his
needs, and of the impacts that both he and the industry have on
the host socio-cultural, economic and physical environment.
Mathieson/Wall:
Tourism is the temporary
movement of people to destinations outside their normal places of
work and residence, the activities undertaken during their stay
in those destinations, and the facilities created to cater for their
needs.
Judd/Fainstein:
Tourism is about
customers away from home.
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