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Tourism is a subset of travel.

Tourism is the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes.
There are three elementary Forms of Tourism in relation to a given area (e.g. region, country, group of countries):

1. Domestic tourism.
   This is defined as comprising the activities of residents of a given area travelling only within that area, but outside their usual environment;
2. Inbound tourism.
   This is defined as comprising the activities of non-residents travelling in a given area that is outside their usual environment;
3. Outbound tourism.
   This is defined as comprising the activities of residents of a given area travelling to and staying in places outside that area (and outside their usual environment).

Categories of tourism: when the area of reference is a country, the three basic forms of tourism can be combined in various ways to derive the following categories of tourism:

1. "internal tourism"
   which comprises "domestic …" & "inbound tourism";
2. "national tourism"
   which comprises "domestic …" & "outbound tourism";
3. "international tourism"
   which consists of "inbound …" and "outbound tourism".

To avoid misunderstanding, it is recommended that these terms be reserved for tourism concerning a country as the unit of reference. In other cases it should be made explicitly clear to which geographic or administrative level the terms refer, e.g. "provincial inbound tourism", "internal tourism of the European Union"."

Any person travelling to a place other than that of his/her usual environment for up to 12 months and whose main purpose of trip is leisure, business, pilgrimage, health, etc, other than the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited or migration.
Transport Crew and Commercial Travellers (even those travelling to different destinations over the year) may be regarded as travelling in their usual environment and excluded from visitors (Transport Crew are usually excluded from Frontier Control), also those travelling year-round (or most of the year) between two places of residence (e.g. weekend homes, residential study)