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Overview and History of Tourism Notes

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Tourism encompasses leisure and business travel, as well as the philosophy and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of running tours. People "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure and not less than 24 hours, business and other purposes," according to the World Tourism Organization, which goes "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only." International tourism has both incoming and outgoing repercussions on a country's balance of payments, and it can be domestic (inside the traveller's own country) or international.
Between the second part of 2008 and the end of 2009, tourism numbers fell due to a major economic slowdown (the late-2000s recession) and the breakout of the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, but gradually rebounded until the COVID-19 pandemic put an end to the recovery. According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization, global international tourist arrivals could drop by 58 percent to 78 percent by 2020, resulting in a loss of US$0.9–1.2 trillion in international tourism receipts.
International tourist receipts (the travel item in the balance of payments) increased by 3.8 percent to US$1.03 trillion (€740 billion) in 2005, up from US$1.03 trillion (€740 billion) in 2010. For the first time in 2012, international visitor visits reached 1 billion, and growing source markets such as China, Russia, and Brazil had greatly expanded their spending over the preceding decade.
Tourism is responsible for about 8% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. [10] Emissions, as well as other important environmental and social consequences that aren't always good for local people and economy. As a result, several tourist development groups have begun to focus on sustainable tourism in order to reduce the negative impacts of tourism's increasing impact. The United Nations World Tourism Organization emphasized these practices by promoting tourism as a component of the Sustainable Development Goals through initiatives such as the International Year for Sustainable Tourism for Development in 2017 and Tourism for SDGs, which focuses on how SDG 8, SDG 12, and SDG 14 are linked to tourism in the creation of a sustainable economy.
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