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Tourism

travel for pleasure or business

Tourism is the travel for recreation, leisure, religious, family business purposes, usually of a limited duration. Tourism is commonly associated with trans-national travel, but may also refer to travel to another location within 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.


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David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and seen different bits, because most of what we saw in the couple of days we were there sorting out our travel arrangements was awful... ~ Douglas Adams.
 
Business tourism is rising in Africa. Demand from international civil servants and businessman is growing strongly. - Mossadeck Bally
 
Island tourism contributes a significant proportion of Australia’s share of the World tourism market, mainly as a result of the attraction of the islands in and adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef, one of the seven natural wonders of the world.... ~ Jack Carlsen, Richard Butler.
 
Over the next fifty years, thousands of people will travel to Earth's orbit—and then to the Moon and beyond. Space travel and space tourism—will one day become almost as commonplace as flying to exotic destinations on our own planet. ~ Arthur C. Clarke.
 
What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf. ~Alice Cooper.
 
First, the intertwined global discourses of ecology, heritage, and conservation circulate through tourist sites, focusing on specific attractions that have been assigned global importance. Indeed the significance of a site as the Taj has been partially disembodied from its local encoding and has become a symbol of globality. It is not merely a symbol of India now, but belongs to the world– as many commentators have noted – and accordingly is the responsibility of the world. ~ Tim Edensor
  • David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and seen different bits, because most of what we saw in the couple of days we were there sorting out our travel arrangements was awful. It was just the tourist area, i.e., that part of Bali which has been made almost exactly the same as everywhere else in the world for the sake of people who have come all this way to see Bali.
  • China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They're very self-contained.
  • I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place.
  • A single tourist must hurry, that he may not recoil upon himself: he must, from economy of time, money and temper, be ever upon the move and tire himself, that he may not tire of himself.
    • John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington, Rides Round Britain, ed. Donald Adamson, pub. Folio Society, 1996, in "A Tour to the North", p. 301
  • First, the intertwined global discourses of ecology, heritage, and conservation circulate through tourist sites, focusing on specific attractions that have been assigned global importance. Indeed the significance of a site as the Taj has been partially disembodied from its local encoding and has become a symbol of globality. It is not merely a symbol of India now, but belongs to the world– as many commentators have noted – and accordingly is the responsibility of the world.
  • The explorer seeks the undiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history, the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity. The genuine traveler is, or used to be, in the middle between the two extremes. If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates, retaining all he can of the excitement of the unpredictable attaching to exploration and fusing with the pleasure of knowing where one is belonging to tourism. ~

G - L

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I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... - John Galliano.
  • At the moment, money from Gombe tourism goes into one pot for Tanzania National Parks and it has to pay for the whole infrastructure of everything. But through our TACARE [community development] programme, we’ve benefited local people hugely.
The thing is about tourism and research is that they can both focus attention on the place and help to preserve it. It’s tourism involvement with the mountain gorillas that saved them.
During the genocide in Rwanda in the 1990s, people on both sides were being told, “Don’t touch the gorillas”, as it was the second biggest foreign exchange earner after tea in the country. So both sides hoped to win and continue exploiting gorillas.
So the government can see the value of tourism, but the danger is they over-exploit it. They say, “We’re getting all this money for [gorilla-tracking groups of] six people, now we’ll let it be 12”, and they get more money for tours, so they make it 20. That’s the danger; that they end up killing what people have come to see.
  • Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
  • A "tour" is like a cocktail party. One "meets" everybody and knows no one. I doubt that what is ordinarily called "travel" really does broaden the mind any more than a cocktail party cultivates the soul. Perhaps the old-fashioned tourist who used to check off items in his Baedeker lest he forget that he had seen them was not legitimately so much a figure of fun as he was commonly made. At best, more sophisticated travelers usually know only the fact that they have seen something, not anything worth keeping which they got from the sight itself. Chartres is where the lunch was good; Lake Leman where we couldn't get a porter. To have lived in three places, perhaps to have lived in only one, is better than to have seen a hundred. I am a part, said Ulysses, of all that I have known—not of all that I have visited or "viewed."
  • The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
  • Sustainable tourism development cannot be understood in isolation from the socio-political context in which it was born or from the spatial context in which it is adopted as a managerial philosophy.
    • Liburd (2010) in: Jack Carlsen, Richard Butler “Island Tourism: Sustainable Perspectives” , p. 103
 
That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen – fly me! Or Shakespeare or T.S. Elliot, or Hazlitt. All tickets to ride. To ride the jumbo jets. ~ David Lodge.

M - R

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Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in did not bother them at all. They untied the door, opened the flap, and barged right in, touching our things, poking through our bedrolls, inspecting everything. It boggles my mind that tourists feel they have the god-given right to intrude everywhere. - Russell Means
 
... These areas were notorious because of this type of modern tourism, which has become known as "sex tourism". - Sheik Al-Qaradhawi.
 
...In the [past] early sight seeing, the seven wonders of the world were built with an eye to attracting tourists, particularly with those of an aristocratic, scholastic or artistic bent....The early sightseeing tourists also went to Egypt and Greece to baths, shrines and seaside resorts and to see where Alexander the Great slept, Socrates lived, Ajax committed suicide and Achilles was buried, and to see the Pyramids, the Sphinx, and the valley of the Kings. - A. K. Raina.
  • Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in did not bother them at all. They untied the door, opened the flap, and barged right in, touching our things, poking through our bedrolls, inspecting everything. It boggles my mind that tourists feel they have the god-given right to intrude everywhere.
  • The sheep like nature of travel - being on a beach with thousands of other people is not my idea of fun. I also don't like being a tourist because you don't know what's really going on in a country.
  • I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our western Nature in her majesty.

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Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That's always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat - Curtis Stone.
 
Herodotus’s book made Giza famous in ancient Greece. When a list of the Seven Wonders of the World was created, ancient historians included the Great Pyramid.... Michael Woods.
  • To opt for being a tourist is to choose the easiest but most contemptible path; ultimately it’s the most dangerous one, too, in a certain sense. You have to accept the built-in epithets that go with the part: they will think of you as a foolish tourist, an ignorant tourist, a vulgar tourist, a mere tourist. Do you want to be considered mere? Around you able to accept that? Is that really your preferred self-image—baffled, bewildered, led about by the nose? You'll sign up for packaged tours, you'll carry guidebooks and cameras, you'll go to the cathedral and the museums and the marketplace, and you'll remain always on the outside of things, seeing a great deal, experiencing nothing. What a waste! You will be diminished by the very traveling that you thought would expand you. Tourism hollows and parches you. All places become one: a hotel, a smiling, swarthy, sunglassed guide, a bus, a plaza, a fountain, a marketplace, a museum, a cathedral. You are transformed into a feeble shriveled thing made out of glued-together travel folders; you are naked but for your visas; the sum of your life’s adventures is a box of leftover small change from many indistinguishable lands.
  • Our wanderings were wide and in many directions; and now I could give the reader a vivid description of the Big Trees and the marvels of the Yosemite—but what has the reader done to me that I should persecute him? I will deliver him into the hands of less conscientious tourists and take his blessing. Let me be charitable, though I fail in all virtues else.
  • Herodotus’s book made Giza famous in ancient Greece. When a list of the Seven Wonders of the World was created, ancient historians included the Great Pyramid.... Thousands of tourists from all over the world visit the Great Pyramid each year. It is the only one of the original Seven Wonders of the World that still exists. Tourism and time have taken a toll on the buildings at Giza.

Managing Natural World Heritage

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However, most tourism [in some national parks] is managed by entrepreneurs based in the regional capital, with few benefits accruing to local people. At the request of park authorities, in the mid-1990s The Mountain Institute (TMI) helped local people to share in tourism benefits sustainably by developing village based, small scale accommodation, guiding and food services adjoining the park.

UNESCO, ICOMOS, IUCN, ICCROM Managing Natural World Heritage, UNESCO, 30 June 2012

  • The value of World Heritage as a brand can be maximized to attract tourism, resulting in increased national income.
    • In: P.7
  • However, most tourism [in some national parks] is managed by entrepreneurs based in the regional capital, with few benefits accruing to local people. At the request of park authorities, in the mid-1990s The Mountain Institute (TMI) helped local people to share in tourism benefits sustainably by developing village based, small scale accommodation, guiding and food services adjoining the park.
    • In: P.32
  • Some countries have established special laws enhancing the protection afforded to World Heritage. For example, the relationship between managing agency and the tourism sector is often crucial. An defective partnership can bring mutual benefits whereas a poor relationship can result in misunderstanding and negative impact.
    • In: P.55
  • The global growth in tourism is well documented and today tourism is often described as the world's 'largest' industry. An increasing and significant proportion of this industry is centred on nature and associated cultural heritage.
    • In: P.67
  • At its best tourism can provide an outstanding opportunity to increase the understanding of natural and cultural heritage, as envisaged by the World Cultural Heritage Convention while providing long term financial support to site management, local communities and tourism providers.
    • In: P.67
  • The starting point for any tourism-related planning should always be consistent with the overall management system and the management plan.
    • In: P.68
  • Contribution to World Heritage objectives, Tourism development and visitor activities associated with World Heritage properties must contribute to and must not damage the protection, conservation, presentation and transmission of their heritage values. Tourism should also generate sustainable socio-economic development and equitably contribute tangible as well as intangible benefits to local and regional communities in ways that are consistent with the conservation of the properties.
    • In: P.94
  • Site management capacity Management systems for World Heritage properties should have sufficient skills, capacities and resources available when planning tourism infrastructure and managing visitor activity to ensure the .protection and presentation of their identified heritage values and respect for local communities.
  • Relevant public agencies and site management should apply a sufficient proportion of the revenue derived from r tourism and visitor activity to ensure the protection, conservation and management of their heritage values.
    • In: P.95
  • Tourism infrastructure development and visitor activity associated with World Heritage properties should contribute to local community empowerment and socio-economic development in an effective and equitable manner.
    • In: P.95

Evaluative Study of Tourism Industry in Puducherry, U.T. Of India

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Tourism is a major social phenomenon motivated by the natural urge of every human being for new experience, adventure, education and entertainment. The motivations for tourism also include social, religious and business interests.
 
...Over 382 million domestic tourists visiting different parts of the country every year return with a better understanding of the people living in different regions of the country. They have a better appreciation of the cultural diversity of India. It also encourages preservation of monuments and heritage properties and helps the survival of art forms, crafts and culture.
 
Tourism has gained importance as the fastest growing industry in the world, particularly because of multifarious benefits, it ensures to the destinations, to the tourists themselves to the global geo-political environment as a whole. During the past a number of studies have been conducted to evaluate the role and performance of tourism.

Dr. R.Uma Devi, in Evaluative Study of Tourism Industry in Puducherry, U.T. Of India, International Journal of Innovative Research & Development

  • The word “Tourism” is derived from the term ‘TOUR’ means “a journey from place to place or time to be spent at a station or rambling excursion.
    • In: p. 81
  • The term [Tourism] [used] for all those inter-connected processes, especially economic ones that come in play through influx, temporary residence and dispersal of strangers into within and from a certain district, country or state.
    • Herman V.S.S. Hoffen, p. 81
  • Tourism is one of the important components of service sector. It considered as a significant and vital instrument for economic development and employment generation, particularly in remote and backward areas. It is the largest service industry globally in terms of gross revenue as well as Foreign Exchange Earnings (FEE)
    • In: p. 81
  • Tourism stimulates other economic sectors through its backward and forward linkages and cross-sectoral synergies with other sectors such as agriculture, horticulture, poultry, handicrafts, transport, construction, etc. It leads to additional income, employment generation and poverty alleviation. It enhances the national and state revenues, business receipts, employment, wages and salary income; buoyancy in Central, State and local tax receipts can contribute towards overall socio-economic improvement and accelerated growth in the economy. It is multi-sectoral activity characterized by multiple services provided by a range of suppliers include airlines, surface transport, hotels, basic infrastructure and facilitation systems, etc. Thus, the growth of tourism cannot be attained unless the related sectors are addressed simultaneously.
    • In: p. 81
  • An important feature of Indian tourism industry is its contribution to national integration and preservation of natural as well as cultural environments and enrichment of the social and cultural lives of people. Over 382 million domestic tourists visiting different parts of the country every year return with a better understanding of the people living in different regions of the country. They have a better appreciation of the cultural diversity of India. It also encourages preservation of monuments and heritage properties and helps the survival of art forms, crafts and culture.
    • In: p. 81-82
  • Tourism has gained importance as the fastest growing industry in the world, particularly because of multifarious benefits, it ensures to the destinations, to the tourists themselves to the global geo-political environment as a whole. During the past a number of studies have been conducted to evaluate the role and performance of tourism.
    • In: p. 83
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