What is travel and tourism?
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Travel
There are many reasons why people travel, but generally they are split into three categories:
- Leisure Travel – includes travel for holidays, cultural events, recreation or sports.
- Business Travel – includes meetings, conferences and exhibitions; usually business travellers have their expenses paid by their company.
- Visiting friends and relatives (VFR) – includes all travel for the purpose of meeting friends and relatives, either within your own country or abroad.
Types of tourism
Domestic tourism – taking holidays and trips in your own country.
- An example would be a family from Leeds taking a short break to the seaside resort of Brighton.
International tourism – visiting a different country than the one that you live in. It can be broken into two categories:
Inbound tourism – visitors from overseas coming into the country.
- For example, a tourist coming from Germany to the UK.
Outbound tourism – travelling to a different country. Generally, when we use the term outbound...
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