What makes tourism difficult to define?
There is no real definition for tourism, tourism can be defined in many different ways. Britannica defines tourism as “the act and process of spending time away from home in pursuit of recreation, relaxation, and pleasure” (Walton, 2024).
Another way of defining tourism, comes from OECD who define it “as 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 purpose not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited” (OCED, 2001)
This tells us that tourism is one of many things that are hard to explain and will never have a true definition as no one truly knows how to define it
Walton, JK. (2024) Tourism. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/topic/tourism (Accessed: 05/12/24).