Glossary:Tourism

From Statistics Explained

Tourism means the activity of visitors taking a trip to a main destination outside their usual environment, for less than a year, for any main purpose, including business, leisure or other personal purpose, other than to be employed by a resident entity in the place visited.

Different types can be distinguished, according to the origin and destination of visitors:

• domestic tourism means visits within a country by visitors who are residents of that country.
• inbound tourism means visits to a country by visitors who are not residents of that country.
• outbound tourism means visits by residents of a country outside that country.
• national tourism means domestic and outbound tourism.
• internal tourism means domestic and inbound tourism.

Further information

• Methodology for tourism statistics and Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA)

Related concepts

• Tourist

Statistical data

• Tourism trends