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In everyday language, tourism can be described as leisure time used for travelling and seeking desired experiences. Travel is clearly governed by the motive to escape the pressures, from an increasingly stressful life, and to see something new. On the global scale, tourism is a one-way communication where basically the rich people from the North have the economic opportunity to visit the economically poor countries in the South. The inverse situation is very rare.
Consumers report they have changed their travel behavior, generally traveling to less exotic places closer to home and spending less on all trips. The good news is people are definitely continuing to pursue leisure travel. The bad news is that they are making different choices and plan to continue to spend less.
In everyday language, tourism can be described as leisure time used for travelling and seeking desired experiences. Travel is clearly governed by the motive to escape the mundane, to pause and get some rest from an increasingly stressful life, and to see something new.
Leisure has traditionally been conceptualized in three ways (Chick 1998). First, it has been regarded as free or unobligated time. Second, leisure has been described as activity apart from obligations, such as work or family. Finally leisure has been considered in a more subjective fashion as experience, a state of mind, or a condition defined by the individual at leisure
Chick (1998) discusses cross-cultural aspects of leisure from an anthropological point of view. He concludes that leisure is not a recent phenomenon, but has existed in
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