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Chapter 2 Tourism Concepts Tourism System * Learning Objectives To identify important terminologies. To explain why economists don’t think of tourism as being an industry. To explain the reasons for using a systems approach for tourism. To describe the parts of The Tourism System the Tourism System model. * Contents Some fundamental concepts Tourism Tourism Industry Visitor, tourist, excursionist Why use a system approach The parts of Tourism System Model * FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTSWhat is Tourism There is no single definition of tourism that is universally accepted. WTO , Madrid, Spain, is a specialized agency of the United Nations. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism as “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.” * Branches of tourism Inbound international tourism: visits to a country by nonresidents of that country. Outbound international tourism: visits by the residents of a country to other countries. Domestic tourism: visits by residents within their own country. Internal tourism: domestic + inbound international Visits by residents and non-residents within a country. National tourism: domestic + outbound international Visits by the residents of a country within their own country and to other countries. E.g.. China: Inbound-domestic-outbound * AIEST definition AIEST stands for International Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism. Hunziker and Krapf, in 1942, defined tourism as the totality of the relationship and phenomenon arising from the travel and stay of strangers, provided that the stay does not imply the establishment of a permanent residence and is not connected with a remunerative activities. Above definition was then accepted by AIEST as below: Tourism is the sum of phenomena a