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Tourism is a form of travel motivated by recreational and leisure purposes, including the services associated to such activity. Therefore, tourism, travel and recreation are interrelated concepts, although with different meaning.

Travel is the act or process of displacement from one place to another, through the means of transport, and for a wide diversity of reasons, such as business, commuting, migration, etc.

Recreation can be defined in relation to a variety of activities undertaking during leisure time.

The World Tourism Organization defines tourism 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”.

Hunziker and Krapf (1941) defined tourism as "the sum of the phenomena and relationships arising from the travel and stay of non-residents, insofar as they do not lead to permanent residence and are not connected with any earning activity”.

The Tourism Society of England (1976) defined the tourism as "the temporary, short-term movement of people to destination outside the places where they normally live and work and their activities during the stay at each destination. It includes movements for all purposes".

International Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism (1981) defined tourism in terms of particular activities selected by choice and undertaken outside the home environment.

Mathieson & Wall (1982) defined tourism as “the temporary movement of people to destinations outside their normal places of work and residence, the activities undertaken during their stay in those destinations, and the facilities created to cater to their needs”.

Even the United Nations have approached the definition of tourism, establishing a triple classification in its International Recommendations of Tourism Statistics of 1994: Domestic tourism, which involves residents of a given country traveling within its territory; inbound tourism, involving non-residents traveling in a country; and, finally, outbound tourism, which involves residents traveling to a third country.

Later, this same international organization offered a combination of these three categories, defining internal tourism as the combination of domestic and inbound tourism; national tourism, which includes domestic and outbound tourism; and international tourism, consisting of inbound and outbound tourism.

The tourism industry is complex, fragmented and comprising elements of other sectors that, considered together, constitute what is commonly referred to as the tourism and travel industry, which includes public and private transportation services (automobiles, buses, airlines and maritime lines), lodging and accommodation services, food services, amusement parks and resorts, entertainment venues, stores and gift-shop specialists, and tourist organization, infrastructure and activities.

Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity with a very diversified offer of services, a wide range of cultural and sociopolitical effects, and a considerable influence on local and international economy, supporting many million jobs directly and indirectly in the world.

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