Its gives a simple introduction of the Concept of Tourism

3. Basic definitions
• Travel refers to the activity of travelers. A traveler is
someone who moves between different geographic
locations, for any purpose and any duration.
• A visitor is a traveler taking a trip 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. These
trips taken by visitors qualify as tourism trips. Tourism
refers to the activity of visitors.

4. DEFINING TOURISM
1910, Herman V . Schullard, defined it
as, ”Tourism is the sum total of operators,
mainly of an economic nature which
directly relate to the
Entry, Stay and Movement of
foreigners inside and outside a certain
country, city or region”.

5. According to WTO, tourism is the
movement of people away from their normal
place of residence and work for a period of not
less than 24 hrs and not more than 1year and
whose main purpose of travel is other
than the exercise of an activity remunerated fro
m within the places visited.

6. WHAT IS TOURISM ?
Tourism is a socio-economic phenomenon
Tourism accounts for the single largest Peaceful
movement of people across cultural boundaries
of the world.
Dictionary says:
The activity of visiting places for pleasure is
tourism

7. CONCEPT
Tourism as a phenomenon involves the movement of
people with in their own country or across the national
borders.
It is composed of three elements namely
Man (the human element as the creator of the act of
tourism)
Space (the physical element to be necessarily covered by
the act itself)
Time (the temporal element which is composed by the
trip itself and the stay at the destination).
These elements constitute the essential conditions for the
existence of the phenomenon of tourism. There could be no
tourism act without them.

8. Elements of Tourism
• Travel between a tourist home area and a
destination
• Temporary and short term visit
• Use variety of tourist facilities
• Will undertake activities associated with
tourism including visit for business
• Results in positive or negative impacts.

9. ELEMENTS OFTRAVEL
1. Distance – distance traveled on a trip by the
traveler. Trip is defined as each time a person goes to a
place more than 100 miles away from home.
2. Length of stay at destination – tourists make at
least one overnight stay; excursionists do not stay over
night in the place that they visit.
3. Residence of the traveler – origin of the visitors
4. Purpose of travel – visiting friends and relatives,
conventions and seminars, business, outdoor recreation,
entertainment, medical, funeral, wedding and others.

10. Why define Tourism?
First,
Travel research requires a standard definition in
order to establish parameters for research content
Second,
without standard definitions, there can be no
agreement on the measurement of tourism as an
economic activity or its impact on the local, state,
national or world economy. It was found that there are
forty- three definitions for the three terms
TRAVELLER,TOURIST AND VISITOR.

11. Purpose of Tourism
• Physical Motives: Many people travel due to physical
consciousness. Their tour is connected with their bodily
health, well being and physical relaxation.
• Pleasure: Many people travel to be free from the
monotonous daily routine life. They need pleasure for
some time.
• Relaxation, Rest and Recreation: People travel in
order to get relaxed, rest their mind and body, and to get
recreation and rejoice.
• Heath: Many people travel to get fresh breath and body
for good health. The development of spas during the
Roman period was result of people to seek good health.

12. • Curiosity and Culture: Man always loves travelling
and is curious in order to know other’s culture, tradition
and religion.
• Ethnicity and Family: A large no. of people travel to
visit their family, friends and relatives, and also new
people.
• Participation in Events/Festivals: Many people travel
to take part in meeting, conferences and conventions.
Some travel to celebrate festivals and ceremonies.
• Spiritual and Religious Motives: Visiting religious
places, pilgrimages etc have been one of the most
important motives of people.

13. Types of Tourism
1. Recreational tourism: Tourism is an often activity for recreational
purpose. Most tourism took for a change and rest; this is the reason why
package tours have become so popular.
2. Environmental tourism: Rich and affluent tourist are preferred to
spend more visits to remote places where they get pollution free airs to
breath.
3. Historical tourism: Tourist is interested to know how our forefather
lived and administered in a particular area. They visit heritage locations,
temples, churches, museums, forts etc.
4. Ethnic tourism: This refers to people traveling to distance places
looking to their routes and attending to family obligations. Marriage
and death bring people together to their native places. Persons who are
settled overseas during later part of life visit place of their birth for
giving boost to ethnic tourism.

14. 5. Cultural tourism: Some people are interested to know how
other people or communities stay, survive and prosper. The kind
of culture they practice their art and music is different from ours.
So in order to acquire knowledge, understands culture well, to
become familiar with the culture, they undertake journey.
6. Adventure tourism: There is a trend among the youth to take
adventure tour. They go for trekking,
rock climbing, river rafting etc. They organized camp fire and
stay under the blue sky. This tourism is meant for people with
strong nerves who can tolerate stress.
7. Health tourism: In recent years, health tourism has become
highly popular. People visit nature cure centers and hospitals
providing specialist treatment. Many foreigners visit India for
treatment because similar services in their country are costly.

15. 8. Religious tourism: India represents multi-religious
composition of population. Various package tours are
organized to enable people to attend the religious duties
and visit places of religious importance.
9. Music tourism: It can be part of pleasure tourism as
it includes moment of people to sing and listen music
and enjoy it.
10. Village tourism: It involves traveling and arranging
tours in order to popularize various village destinations.
11. Wild life tourism: It can be an Eco and animal
friendly tourism. Wild life tourism means watching
wild animals in their natural habitat.