Look up: tourism

1. tourism
   [n] - the business of providing services to tourists
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2. tourism
   Travel and visiting places for pleasure, often involving sightseeing and staying in overnight accommodation. Regarded as an industry, tourism can increase the wealth and job opportunities in an...
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3. tourism
   touristry noun the business of providing services to tourists; `Tourism is a major business in Bermuda`
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4. tourism
   Click images to enlargeTravel and visiting places for pleasure, often involving sightseeing and staying in overnight accommodation. Regarded as an industry, tourism can increase the wealth and job opportunities in an area, although the work is often seasonal and low paid. Among the negative effects of tourism are traffic ...
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5. Tourism
   Tourism includes activities by people in the course of their travels and vacations in places located outside their habitual environment for a consecutive period not exceeding one year, for the purposes of leisure, business and other reasons with no relation to paid activity in the place visited.
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6. Tourism
   `Tourism` is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines `tourists` as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than twenty-four (24) hours and not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and...
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