Understanding Tourism: Basic Glossary

Tourism is a social cultural and economic phenomenon, which involves the movement of people to countries or places outside their usual for personal or business purposes or business environment. These people are called visitors (and may be tourists or excursionists, residents or non-residents) and tourism refers to activities that involve some travel expenses.

Tourism therefore has an impact on the economy, on the natural and built environment, the local population of the destination and the tourists themselves. Because of these multiple impacts, the range and variety of inputs required to produce these goods and services purchased by visitors, and the range of stakeholders and affected by tourism agents, it should be adopt an integrated approach to development, management and control of tourism. This approach is highly recommended for the formulation and implementation of national and local tourism policies, as well as international agreements or other mechanisms affecting tourism.


economic Analysis:
Tourism directly and indirectly generates an increase in economic activity in the places visited (and beyond), mainly due to the demand for goods and services that must be produced and delivered.

In the economic analysis of tourism, it is necessary to distinguish between "economic contribution" of tourism, which refers to the direct impact of tourism and can be evaluated through the CST, and the "economic impact" of tourism, much broader concept which represents the synthesis of direct, indirect and induced tourism and which should be evaluated by applying models.

Studies of the economic impact are designed to quantify the economic benefits, ie the net increase in wealth of residents resulting from tourism, measured in monetary terms, in addition to the amounts that would otherwise exist.


Tourism Satellite Account (TSA):
The Tourism Satellite Account (described in the Tourism Satellite Account: Recommended Methodological Framework 2008 (TSA: RMF 2008)) is, after the International Recommendations 2008 tourism statistics, the second set of recommendations on statistics tourism developed based on the system of National Accounts. Both documents are in harmony with each other and provide a conceptual framework for measuring and analyzing tourism as an economic activity.

As a statistical tool for economic measurement of tourism, CSE can be considered a set of 10 summary tables, each containing data representing a distinct aspect of economic data tourism: inbound tourism spending, domestic tourism, outbound tourism and domestic tourism, production accounts of the tourism industries, gross value added and gross domestic product (GDP) as a result of tourism demand, employment, investment, government consumption, and non-monetary indicators.


tourism spending:
Tourism expenditure refers to the amount paid for the acquisition of goods and services consumption, but also valuables, for personal use or as gifts, for and during tourist trips.


Destination (main destination) for a journey
The main purpose of a trip is defined as the place visited, which plays a central role in the decision to make the trip. See also main reason for a tourist trip.


Employment in the tourism industries:
Employment in the tourism industries can be assessed by performing a count of people employed in tourism industries, whatever their job, counting people with their main job in the tourism industries, a count of jobs in tourism industries, or the equivalent expressed in workstations full time.


usual environment:
The usual environment of a person, a key concept of tourism is defined as the geographical area (not necessarily contiguous) within which a person conducts normal daily activities.


Tripper (or day visitor):
A visitor (domestic tourism, receiver or transmitter) is described as day visitor (or hiker) if the trip does not include overnight.


Forms of tourism:
There are three basic forms of tourism: domestic tourism, inbound tourism and outbound tourism. These three forms can be combined in different ways to give these additional forms: domestic tourism, domestic tourism and international tourism.


Group of travelers:
A group of travelers is defined as a set of visitors who together realize a trip and whose costs are shared.


Industry conferences, meetings, exhibitions
A trip for business and professional reasons can be divided into two categories: "meetings, conferences, congresses, trade fairs and exhibitions" and "other business and professional."

The International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA), Meeting Professionals International (MPI) and Reed Travel prefer the term "industry conferences, meetings, fairs" to the acronym MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and presentations) that does not recognize the industrial nature of these activities.


tourism industries:
Tourism industries (or activities characteristic tourism) denote the activities whose primary production is a characteristic product of tourism.

Tourism characteristic products are those that meet at least one of the following two conditions:
(a) Tourism expenditure on the product (good or service) must represent a significant share of total tourism expenditure (on a share of any expenditure / demand condition);
(b) Tourism expenditure on the product should be an important part of the product offering in the economy (condition on the part corresponding to the offer). This condition implies that the supply of a product characteristic tourism would cease to exist in significant quantities in the absence of visitors.

List of categories of tourism characteristic products and tourism industries
products Industries
1 Accommodation services for visitors
   1 Visitor accommodation
2 Food Services and beverage consumption 2 Activities of catering and beverage consumption
3 passenger transport services by rail
   3 Passenger transport by rail
4.-purpose road passenger transport
   4 Road passenger transport
5. Services passenger waterway
    5 Passenger transport by inland waterways
6 passenger transport services by air
      6 passenger transport by air
7 Rental services of transport equipment
   7 Holiday Transport Equipment
8 Travel agencies and other reservation services 8 Activities of travel agencies and other service activities booking
9 Cultural Services
   9 Cultural Activities
10 Recreational and sporting services
   10 Sports & Recreation
Property features 11 tourism-specific 11 countries Retail property characteristics tourism in each country
12 Services tourism characteristic, specific countries 12 Other characteristic tourism activities, country-specific


Place of usual residence:
The place of residence is the geographical place where visitors usually resides, and is defined by the location of its principal place of residence (Principles and Recommendations for the Censuses of Population and Housing, United Nations, by . 2.20 to 2.24).


Self catering:
A vacation home is a secondary home where household members go mainly for recreation, vacation or any other form of entertainment.


MICE:
See Industry conferences, meetings, fairs and exhibitions.


Pattern (principal) of a holiday:
The main reason a tourist trip is defined as the pattern without which the trip would not have taken place. The classification of tourist trips based on the primary purpose of the trip is based on nine categories: the typology identifies different subsets of visitors (visitors on business trips, visitors in transit, etc.). See also destination of a trip.


Reference country:
The reference country refers to the country where the assessment is conducted.

It should be noted that in the International Recommendations 2008:
(a) The term "country" may be transposed to a different geographical level using the term "place" in its place (for a region, a municipality or other sub-national geographic location);
(b) The term "long-term" refers to a period of at least one year and "short term" in a period of less than a year.


Country of Residence:
The country of residence of a household is determined by the main center of economic interest of its members. If a person resides (or will reside) over a year in a given country and its center of economic interest (where she spends the most time, for example), it is considered a resident of that country.


Tourism:
The tourism sector, as envisaged dan CSE, is the set of production units in different industries that supply goods and consumer services demanded by visitors. These industries are called tourism industries as visitor expenditures represent an important part of their offer that it would cease to exist in significant quantities in the absence of visitors.


outbound tourism:
Includes the activities of a resident visitor outside the country of reference, as part of an outbound tourism trip or a trip domestic tourism.


domestic tourism:
Domestic tourism comprises domestic tourism plus inbound tourism, or the activities of residents and non-resident visitors within the country of reference in the context of domestic or international travel tourism.


domestic tourism
It includes activities of a resident visitor within the country of reference, as part of a domestic tourism trip or a trip outbound tourism.


international tourism:
International tourism comprises inbound tourism plus outbound tourism, that is to say, the activities of resident visitors outside the country of reference, as part of domestic tourism trips or outbound tourism and the activities of non-visitors residents within the country of reference under Travel inbound tourism.


national tourism:
Domestic tourism comprises domestic tourism plus outbound tourism, that is to say, the activities of resident visitors within and outside the country of reference, as part of domestic tourism trips or transmitter.


Inbound tourism:
Includes the activities of a non-resident visitor within the country of reference, as part of a tour of inbound tourism.


Tourist (or visitor who spends the night):
A visitor (domestic tourism, receiver or transmitter) is described as a tourist (or visitor who spends the night) he spends a night there.


visit:
A trip consists of visits to different places. The term refers to visit tourist staying in a location visited on a tourist trip.


visitor:
A visitor is a person who makes a trip to a destination outside their usual environment for less than one year, and whose main purpose of trip (business, leisure or other personal purpose) is different from that of engaging in an activity remunerated from within the country or place visited. A visitor (domestic tourism, receiver or transmitter) is described as a tourist (or visitor who spends the night) he spends a night there, and day visitor (or hiker) otherwise.


Visitor for business:
A visitor is a visitor for business whose main purpose of travel is the business and professional class.


travel:
A trip means the movement of a person from the moment she left her place of residence until his return: it is therefore a return trip. Travel by visitors are tourism trips.


Travel / Tourism:
The trip includes activities for travelers. A traveler is a person who moves between different geographical locations for any purpose and duration whatsoever. The visitor is a particular type of traveler, so that tourism is a subset of travel.