Tourism is defined as travel for recreation, leisure, religious, or family business purposes of a limited duration, whether transnationally or within one's own country. The World Tourism Organization defines a tourist as someone who travels to and stays in places outside their usual environment for no more than one year for leisure, business, or other purposes.

2. Tourism is the travel for recreation, leisure, religious, family
business purposes, usually of a limited duration. Tourism is
commonly associated with trans-national travel, but may
also refer to travel to another location within the same
country. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as
people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual
environment for not more than one consecutive year for
leisure, business and other purposes.