The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to tourism:
Tourism – travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.[1] Tourism may be international, or within the traveller's country. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", 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".[2]
What type of thing is tourism?[edit]
Tourism can be described as all of the following:
- A form of recreation
- An economic sector
Types of tourism[edit]
- Accessible tourism
- Adventure travel
- Agritourism
- Alternative tourism
- Atomic tourism
- Birth tourism
- Business tourism
- Culinary tourism
- Cultural tourism
- Dark tourism
- Disaster tourism
- Domestic tourism
- Drug tourism
- Ecotourism
- Extreme tourism
- Factory tour
- Garden tourism
- Genealogy tourism
- Geotourism
- Heritage tourism
- Honeymoon
- Jihadi tourism
- Jungle tourism
- Justice tourism
- LGBT tourism
- Literary tourism
- Medical tourism
- Tourism on the Moon
- Nautical tourism
- Lists of named passenger trains
- Religious tourism
- Rural tourism
- Sacred travel
- Safaris
- Sex tourism
- Slum tourism
- Space tourism
- Sports tourism
- Stag party tourism
- Suicide tourism
- Sustainable tourism
- Vacation
- Volunteer travel
- War tourism
- Water tourism
- Wellness tourism
- Wildlife tourism
History of tourism[edit]
Tourism support services[edit]
Hospitality industry[edit]
- Bed and breakfast
- Boutique hotel
- Conference and resort hotels
- Convention center
- Destination spa
- Receptionist
- General manager
- Homestay
- Hospitality management studies
- Hostel
- Hotel
- Hotel manager
- Inn
- Resort island
- Motel
- Referral chain
- Resort
- Resort town
- Restaurant
- Seaside resort
- Ski resort
General tourism concepts[edit]
- Campus tour
- Convention (meeting)
- Gift shop
- Grand Tour
- Holiday (vacation)
- Hypermobility
- Package tour
- Passport
- Perpetual traveler
- Road trip
- Roadside attraction
- Souvenir
- Staycation
- Sunday drive
- Tour guide
- Tour operator
- Tourism geography
- Tourism minister
- Tourism region
- Tourist attraction
- Tourist gateway
- Tourist trap
- Touron
- Transport
- Travel
- Travel agency
- Travel behavior
- Travel document
- Travel insurance
- Travel medicine
- Travel survey
- Travel technology
- Travel warning
- Travel website
- Trip planner
- Visa
- Visitor center
Tourism organizations[edit]
- Trade associations
- American Bus Association
- American Hotel and Lodging Association
- American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute
- BEST Education Network
- Caribbean Tourism Organization
- Destination marketing organization
- European Travel Commission
- South-East Asian Tourism Organisation
- World Tourism Organization
- World Travel and Tourism Council
Tourism media[edit]
Tourism publications[edit]
Persons influential in tourism[edit]
- Gérard Blitz (entrepreneur)
- George Bradshaw
- Thomas Cook
- Paul Dubrule and Gérard Pelisson
- Arthur Frommer
- Stelios Haji-Ioannou
- Conrad Hilton
- Michael O'Leary (businessman)
- Henry Lunn
- Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
- Juan Trippe
- Maureen Wheeler and Tony Wheeler
See also[edit]
- Lists
- Adjectival tourisms
- Attractions
- Bibliography
- Casino hotels
- Casinos
- Convention and exhibition centers
- Hotels
- Largest hotels in the world
- Motels
- Travel magazines
- UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists
- World Heritage Sites by country
References[edit]
- ^ "tourism". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ "UNWTO technical manual: Collection of Tourism Expenditure Statistics" (PDF). World Tourism Organization. 1995. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 September 2010. Retrieved 26 March 2009.
External links[edit]
- Wikivoyage — The free, worldwide travel guide that anyone can edit.
- Recreation and Leisure Studies at Curlie