1. WHAT IS TOURISM?

2. TOURISM
“Tourism comprises 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 purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited.”
World Tourism Organization

3. TOURISM
The WTO employs three criteria to determine if a trip is tourism:
Displacement – normally transport is involved
Purpose – you are not going to receive payment
Duration – maximum stay: one year

4. Travel and tourism Lies at the centre of several industries:
Accommodation
Attractions and activities
Catering/Food and Beverage (F&B)
Entertainment/Recreation
Tourist information
Travel agents
Tour operation
Transportation

5. Tourism industry
Gives rise to many jobs that involve a wide range of personal qualities, skills and knowledge:
Tour guide
Receptionist
Hotel manager
Baggage handler
Ski instructor
Waiter
Children’s activity organizer
(…)

6. tourist visitor traveller trip tourism
Vocabulary exercise:
1.Complete the sentences with the words below. The definitions were taken from the UNWTO site:
Travel refers to the activity of travellers. A _______________ is someone who moves between different geographic locations, for any purpose and any duration. The visitor is a particular type of traveller and consequently _________________ is a subset of travel.
A ____________ is a traveller taking a __________ to a main destination outside his/her usual environment, for less than a year, for any main purpose (business, leisure or other personal purpose) other than to be employed by a resident entity in the country or place visited. A visitor (domestic, inbound or outbound) is classified as a _____________ (or overnight visitor), if his/her trip includes an overnight stay, or as a same-day visitor (or excursionist) otherwise.
tourist visitor traveller trip tourism