Tourism: The Different Types Of Tourism?

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According to Mathieson and Wall (1982), they defined tourism as “the temporary movement of people to destinations outside their normal places of work and residence, the activities undertaken during their stay in those destinations, and the facilities created to cater to their needs.” According to Macintosh and Goeldner (1986) tourism is "the sum of the phenomena and relationships arising from the interaction of tourists, business suppliers, host governments and host communities in the process of attracting and hosting these tourists and other visitors." Tourism is also defined as the activities of persons identified as visitors. A visitor is someone who is making a visit to a main destination outside his/her usual environment for less than…show more content…
There are three types of visitors. Firstly, tourists who are visitors staying away from home for one or more nights for any of the purposes noted above (domestic, or from abroad). Secondly, same day visitors, also known as tourist day visitors spending at least 3 hours away from home outside their usual environment for general leisure, recreational and social purposes. Many are local residents of an area. Thirdly, Leisure day visitors spending less than 3 hours away from home but outside their usual environment, for general leisure, recreational or social purposes. Not included (in the published volume and value of tourism statistics in England), these short stay leisure day visitors contribute directly to the local visitor economy and should also be formally recognized in destination management decisions. Most of this third group of visitors are also residents of destinations and their local catchment areas (UNWTO, 2010). Based on the United Nation (2004), they identified three form of tourism which are domestic tourism, involving residents of the given country traveling only within this country. Next is inbound tourism, involving non-residents traveling in the given country. Last one is outbound…show more content…
Usually this is done by assigning at least a latitude and longitude to the image, and optionally altitude, compass bearing and other fields may also be included (Wikipedia, 2016). Geotagging Instagram photos (or anything else for that matter) is almost like giving away your address. It immediately raises privacy concerns and those are very legitimate concerns too. There are three uses of geotagging in Instagram. Firstly, it is for start an Instameet and make new friends. Secondly for create your own time capsule and thirdly for use to promote your

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