Tourism
What is Tourism?
Tourism includes several social practices. All these have the small common characteristic that they are different and they are a 'departure ' from normal life. These characteristics help us to define tourism, which according to the W.T.O (World Trade Organization) is the movement of people away from their normal routine of residence and work for a period of not less than 24 hours and not more than 1 year.
Tourism is a free time activity because it gets along with its opposite, that is adjusted and organized work. This shows us that in modem communities work and leisure are organized as separate and regulated areas of social practice. They are located in particular places and periods of time. Tourism involves the people activities, and the destinations they stop at. This involves a journey and services like transport, accommodation, catering and viewing etc. The trip to and stay at a place which is outside the normal place of work and residence for a period time. There is a clear objective when "going away" to "return borne". Tourism places are not connected with paid work and they preferably offer some compare with places where a person 's work and residence are located.
A substantial rate of the population engages in going away on holiday. Hence, new socialized forms of the provision for goods and services are built in order to cater to the mass character of tourism practices. The tourism is different from the traveler, because travel has an individual character where as tourism has, a mass character. Tourism is directed at places chosen for the anticipation (often built on day-dreaming and fantasy) of strong pleasure because such places are different to what we normally encounter. Such anticipation is supported through a variety of experiences which influence our daily lives like film, T.V, fiction, magazines, records, video etc. which build and reinforce our image of a tourist destination.
The tourist 's expectation is directed towards
Tourism includes several social practices. All these have the small common characteristic that they are different and they are a 'departure ' from normal life. These characteristics help us to define tourism, which according to the W.T.O (World Trade Organization) is the movement of people away from their normal routine of residence and work for a period of not less than 24 hours and not more than 1 year.
Tourism is a free time activity because it gets along with its opposite, that is adjusted and organized work. This shows us that in modem communities work and leisure are organized as separate and regulated areas of social practice. They are located in particular places and periods of time. Tourism involves the people activities, and the destinations they stop at. This involves a journey and services like transport, accommodation, catering and viewing etc. The trip to and stay at a place which is outside the normal place of work and residence for a period time. There is a clear objective when "going away" to "return borne". Tourism places are not connected with paid work and they preferably offer some compare with places where a person 's work and residence are located.
A substantial rate of the population engages in going away on holiday. Hence, new socialized forms of the provision for goods and services are built in order to cater to the mass character of tourism practices. The tourism is different from the traveler, because travel has an individual character where as tourism has, a mass character. Tourism is directed at places chosen for the anticipation (often built on day-dreaming and fantasy) of strong pleasure because such places are different to what we normally encounter. Such anticipation is supported through a variety of experiences which influence our daily lives like film, T.V, fiction, magazines, records, video etc. which build and reinforce our image of a tourist destination.
The tourist 's expectation is directed towards
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