tourism
n.
practice of traveling for recreation; promotion of tourism; management of tourists
Tourism
Tourism is
travel for predominantly
recreational or
leisure purposes or the provision of services to support this leisure travel. The
World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay 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". Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. In 2006, there were over 842 million international tourist arrivals.
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tourism
Noun
1. the business of providing services to tourists; "Tourism is a major business in Bermuda"
(synonym) touristry
(hypernym) commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business
(hyponym) ecotourism
tourism
Synonyms and related words:
commutation, course, crossing, globe-trotting, going, journeying, locomotion, motion, movement, moving, passage, progress, touristry, traject, trajet, transit, travel, traveling
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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