Making a holiday involving an overnight stay away from the normal place of residence. This is in contrast to recreation which involves leisure activities lasting less than twenty-four hours. This holiday may be based on the cultural, historic, and social attractions of an urban centre, or on the appeal of a different environment. Urban tourism increases the importance of the central place while tourism at the periphery can provide the income for economic development.
The mushrooming of international tourism may be explained by high levels of disposable income and longer holidays in more economically developed countries; the development of package holidays, which reduce risk; cheap, mass air transport; and place myths, which persuade the tourist that the local culture they see represents the ‘real thing’. Of critical importance has been the internationalization of finance: credit and debit cards, travellers’ cheques, and hotel vouchers. Technology clearly mediates relationships to places.
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