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Tourism is traveling for leisure, business purpose or recreation. Tourists are the people who travel to different places, and stay for more than a day. In recent years, there have been many uncertainties in the global economy, and this has slowed down the growth of tourism all over the world. For many countries such as Egypt, UAE, Thailand, Greece, Bahamas, Maldives, Fiji, Seychelles etc, tourism is vital, as most of the employment in these countries is associated with tourism.
Top International Destinations For Tourism
As per the reports by the World Tourism Organization, Germany, US, UK, France, China, Italy, Japan, Canada, Russia and South Korea are the top biggest spenders on international tourism. Due to the strength of the Euro against the dollar, Germans and Europeans will continue to be the highest spenders in coming years.
Times Square in New York City, the National Mall and Memorial Parks in Washington DC, Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Trafalgar Square in London, Disneyland in California, Niagara Falls in Ontario, Golden Gate in San Francisco, Tokyo DisneySea in Urayasu, Notre Dame de Paris in Paris, and Disneyland in Paris are the top tourist destinations all over the world.
There are certain common forms of tourism such as mass tourism, winter tourism, Leisure travel and so on. There is also the adjectival tourism that refers to the specialty tourism forms that have become more famous in recent years. Few examples of this type of tourism are disaster tourism, dark tourism, culinary tourism, medical tourism, ecotourism, heritage tourism, nautical tourism, war tourism, space tourism, and sex tourism.
In recent years, there has been an upmarket trend in the European tourism where short break travels are common. People have more disposable income and leisure time. People also have more sophisticated taste and higher level of education. There is a demand of good quality products, fragmenting the mass market.
With the development of transport infrastructure and technology, many types of tourisms have become more affordable and easily accessible.
There have been some setbacks to the tourism industry in recent years such as the Bali attacks, the 9/11 attacks in New York, Tsunami, and so on where thousands of lives were lost, and this has severely hampered the tourism in a few countries. The World Tourism Organization however forecasts the average annual growth rate of 4%. With the advent of the Internet, products related to tourism have become one of the most traded items. It has enabled the tourism providers to sell their services directly, but this has put pressure on intermediaries from traditional shops.
If you are planning to visit a new country, gather the information regarding its culture, traditions, weather, currency and tourist destinations. I might also help if you learn some basic words of the native language.