What makes tourism difficult to define? In my opinion, it is difficult to define because tourism is not just one specific passage, it is multifaceted. This is because there are many reasons as to why one would have/want to travel. For example, domestic travelling to work to a different town to internationally travelling to a different country for a leisure based holiday. Essentially, tourism is always evolving based on someone’s circumstances and invention behind the trip. When it moves from person to person, it even modifies its definition. I believe that tourism is always evolving based on the circumstances and intention behind the trip. This modifies its definition.
Therefore, there is no specific meaning for tourism.
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According to (Fennell, 2015), due to its dependence on primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of production and service, along with its close integration into the economic, sociocultural, and environmental aspects of life, tourism has proven to be a challenging concept to describe.
The same challenge appears in a 1991 issue of the Economist:
Every attempt to define the tourism industry faces the danger of overestimating or underestimating economic activity because there is no accepted definition of the industry. In essence, the industry carries out people’s transportation – from one place to another and back – while also giving them lodging and food. You will not get very far with it. For example, the statistic would be artificially boosted by sales to residents if all restaurant sales were classified as travel and tourism. But, that would be just as misleading as excluding all restaurant revenues.
In terms of fundamental characteristics and theoretical underpinnings, tourism and recreation and leisure studies are very similar. According to Jansen – Verbeke and Dietvorst (1987), the phrases ‘leisure’, ‘recreation’, and ‘tourism’ form a loose, harmonious unity that emphasises the experience and the activity – based features that characterise these notions. However, definitions that are technical, statistical, or economic tend to ignore the components of the term that relates to human experience in favour of an approach that centres on the movement of people across political borders and the amount of money that results from that movement. (Fennell, 2015).
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