The industry is one of the world's largest industries . In 2004, according to the World Tourism Organization made in this area proceeds of about 623 billion U.S. dollars. With around 100 million jobs, tourism is one of the largest employers. Cross-border trips make up 25 percent to 30 percent of world trade in services. Evaluations and trends in the supply tourism statistics . Word development, definitions The concept of tourism (English tourism , queen- tourisme , Italian turismo , Spanish turismo , port turismo , Dutch. toerisme , Swedishturism , Finnish Turismi , norway. Thrifty , croat. turizam slowen. turizem Danish. Thrifty , Turkish turizm , Polish turystyka ) goes back on the French noun le tour (= trip, even walk, walk), but is first occupied in 1800 in English, in French it appeared in 1816 and Germans in 1830.
The French words tourisme and touriste were used as official terms for the first time by the League of Nations used to describe travelers, more than 24 hours in overseas spending. The League of Nations had French as a lingua franca. The English and French only know the term for "tourism", the German on the other hand even the older concept of tourism. In the German language appeared on the word "tourism" in the 1960s. Since the 1980s, the names of many official tourism institutions in the German-speaking world to the concept of tourism has been changed because they wanted to call guests no longer as strangers. By 2000, tourism appeared in the coinage criminal tourism on a negative connotation. Between tourism and tourism today is no different.
Tourism can be defined as follows: The in a particular place or area with the influx of strangers, or at least not where residents (leisure travelers, business people, relatives and acquaintances, visits, trips to second homes and second homes) resulting economic and social change and the resulting there and elsewhere resulting industry or activity. For professional reasons in a different place every day traveling businessman or labor ( commuters ) are not included here.
The education system remains largely excluded from these definitions. There is a student who moves from his home for ten months in a dormitory of a university town, there "commercial motives"? If one accepts this question, one can take his 300 nights in this home easily in the tourism results of the university town. In the practical application of the definitions are different operation modes in Europe, as far as an official tourism statistics will be performed at all.
To expand the concept of tourism and leisure economy of the non-tourist recreational use of the local residents will be added to the place of residence. This economic concept is no longer required, the same behavior (such as cinema, swimming, skiing) in the scaling of the respective local residence (a city to consider separately a region of a state) and to collect more than once. This breaks the tourism and leisure Economic Recuing in three statements, incoming (incoming travelers to a region, introduced from outside services, etc.), out going and domestic tourism (leisure and tourism industry of the inhabitants of the region). Thus, for socio-geographically as well as find typical tourist areas (high value, high incoming tourism), or "living" areas (high single fraction).
