Tourism involves traveling to places outside one's usual environment for leisure or business for less than a year. Physical geography studies the shape and composition of Earth's surface, including landforms, climate, soils and hydrology. Geography is important to the study of tourism because tourism occurs in specific places, involves movement between places, and both the places and identities of tourists are formed through their relationships with landscapes and people in different locations.

1. tourism
Tourism is the activities of persons traveling 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.
Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.
"To provide accurate, orderly, and rational description and interpretation of the variable character of
the earth surface." - Richard Hartshorne, 1959
Geography is divided into two main branches: human geography and physical geography.
Physical geography (or physiography) focuses on geography as an Earth science. It aims to
understand the physical problems and issues of : lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere,
pedosphere, and global flora and fauna patterns (biosphere).
Physical geography can be divided into many following categories, including:
Climatology & Hydrology &
Ecology Pedology
Meteorology Hydrography
Geomorphology

2. Physical geography, or geomorphology, is the study of the shape and composition of the upper surface
of the earth (Fairbridge 1968, McIntyre 1991). Geomorphology encompasses earth processes such as
changes in sea level, erosion, formation of rivers and flood plains, coastal dynamics of wind, water, and
sediments, and island formation, as well as other processes.
Geography is fundamental to the study of tourism, because tourism is geographical in nature. Tourism
occurs in places, it involves movement and activities between places and it is an activity in which both
place characteristics and personal self-identities are formed, through the relationships that are created
among places, landscapes and people. Physical geography provides the essential background, against
which tourism places are created and environmental impacts and concerns are major issues, that must
be considered in managing the development of tourism places.