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Tourism satellite account: System of accounting at
national or regional level which reveals the total direct
impact of tourism on the economy.

Tourism System: A framework that identifies tourism as
being made up of a number of components, often taken to
include the tourist, the tourist generating region, the transit
route region, the tourist destination and the tourism
industry (Leiper, 1990)

tourism: the business of providing and marketing services
and facilities for leisure travelers. Thus, the concept of
tourism is of direct concern to governments, carriers, and
the lodging, restaurant, and entertainment industries, and
of indirect concern to virtually every industry and business
in the world.

Tourism: The definition of tourism used in the national
tourism indicators (NTI) is that adopted by the World
Tourism Organization and the United Nations Statistical
Commission: “the activities of persons travelling to and
staying in places outside their usual environment for not
more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and
other purposes.”

tourist: one who travels for a period of 24 hours or more
in a place other than that in which he or she usually resides,
whose purpose could be classified as leisure (whether for
recreation, health, sport, holiday, study or religion),
business, family, mission or meeting

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