Book
Report
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Tourism Business
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Nepal
Chapter-1 Introduction to Tourism
Tourism nowadays has been an essential activity all over the world. The form of tourism can be of various types. Most of the people are quite familiar with the tourism as it has become the modern needs and demands of all people. Everyone loves travelling and exploring new things. People love visiting new places, so that they have the best moment of their life. Many people travel for leisure, pleasure, business, education, health and family vacation, that’s why the word tourism has emerged.
The word tourism is related to ‘tour’ which is derived from a Latin word ‘Tornus’. It means a tool for describing a circle of turners’ wheel. The notion of a round tour or a package tour has come from this word. In fact, it is the essence of tourism. In 1942, two Swiss professor Walter Hunziker and Kurt Krapf of Berne University defined tourism as, “the sum of the phenomenon and relationship arising from the travel and stay of non-residents, in so far as they don’t lead to permanent residence and are not connected with any earning activity”. In 1963, International unions of official travel organizations (IUOTO) now the World Tourism Organization issued various definitions and recommendations during the auspicious occasion of UN conference of International Travel and Tourism held at Rome, Italy. It introduced the word like ‘visitors’ to describe any person visiting a country other than in which he has his usual place of residence.
Tourism is based on the desire for the pursuit of happiness. It is essentially a pleasure activities in which traveling from one place to another, country to country and region to region is involved. Similarly, it also involves money for the services and time for that. It basically, include s much travel. It is distinct with related concepts of leisure, recreation,
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