TOURISM
Tourism is travelling for recreation. Tourists originated when large numbers of
middle class people began to join the more wealthy aristocratic travellers. As
societies became wealthier, and people lived longer, it became more and more likely
that lower-middle class and middle class people steadily employed would retire in
good health and with significant savings.
A tourist can usually be seen as clearly "out of place" in his current
surroundings, so he is not confused with other travellers. The term "tourist" is tied to
the activity of taking a tour or sightseeing. It is not limited to travelling, but used as a
description of a person who enters a situation or culture, for a brief time, requiring
knowledge that he does not have.
The tourist can be interested - among other things - in the new place's culture
or its nature. Wealthy people have always travelled to distant parts of the world, not,
for any special purpose, but simply for travelling as an end in itself: to see great
buildings or other works of art; to learn new languages; and to taste new cuisines.
Organized tourism is now a major industry around the world and many national
economies are now heavily reliant on tourism.
The term tourism is sometimes used in an uncomplimentary manner, implying a
shallow interest by tourists in general in the societies and natural wonders they visit.
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