This document defines key terms related to tourism, including tourist, generating market, host destination, inbound/outbound travel, and tourism services. It describes tourism as a system with three interdependent elements: a geographic element consisting of the host region and transit routes; a human element of residents from the generating and host regions; and a business element comprising the tourism industry that develops and delivers tourism products to tourists.

1. Tourism
Terms + Definitions

2. Traveller
Any person who moves from point A
to point B on either permanent or
temporary basis.

3. Tourist:
A visitor who travels to a country
other than that in which they have
usual residence for at least one night
but not more than one year, and
whose main purpose of visit is other
than the exercise of an activity
remunerated from within the country
visited.

4. Generating market:
A country or region from which a
tourist travels (their place of
residence)

5. Host destination:
The place the tourist travels to

6. Inbound or Outbound Travel?
 Inbound travel - travel into a
country
 Outbound travel – travel out of a
country

7. Tourism Services:
The services and products to meet tourist needs eg:
 Travel agents
 Transport to and from the destination
 Transport within the destination
 Accommodation at the destination
 Sightseeing, attractions, activities
 Entertainment
 Food and beverage
 Shopping
 Financial services (banks, exchange bureaux)

9. Tourism as a System
Systems theory considers any system to be
composed of interdependent and interrelated sub-
components or parts, and that the system (the
whole) is greater than the simple sum of the parts.
Three elements to the system:
a geographic element
a human element
a business element
The catalyst to the creation of this system is the
tourist.

10. The geographic element:
 The host country or region
 The transit route that the tourist
takes between host and generating
region.

11. The human element:
 The residents of the generating
region who have become
tourists
 The residents of the host region

12. The business element
The tourism industry:
“All of those individuals and
organizations that have a role in the
development and delivery of the
tourism product to the tourist “