TOURISM ECONOMICS

Tourism is the activities of people traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for leisure, business or other purposes for not more than one consecutive year. The word tourist first appeared in the English language in the year 1800. Tourism is a dynamic and competitive industry that requires the ability to adapt constantly to customers’ changing needs and desires, as the customer’s satisfaction, safety and enjoyment are particularly the focus of tourism businesses. Tourism in real sense is essentially a pleasure activity. In this, money earned in one's normal place is spent in the places visited. It involves a discretionary use of time, place and money. In short we can say that tourism is travel which is temporary, voluntary and without any remunerative employment. Tourism supports 8 percentage of the world's employment.