What is Tourism?

Many of us are "tourists" at some stage of our lives, but it is difficult to judge what kind of trip actually is. Tourism is an activity that enters or leaves the normal environment within one year for leisure, business, or other purposes.

For customer satisfaction, safety, and entertainment, especially the focus of travel business, tourism industry is a dynamic and competitive industry that needs to be adaptable to changing needs and customer's aspirations.

Overseas travel is the closest thing to you. It includes people from British Columbia to other states, regions or countries. For example, going to Hawaii for a vacation is considered an outbound tour.

Visitors to British Columbia from other places are known as inbound tourists. BC is competing in the world market to attract visitors from the United States, Japan, Germany and many other countries. The industry also launched a marketing campaign aimed at attracting travelers from Canada and other parts of British Columbia.

Approximately half of BC state tourists come from this state every year. British Columbia statistics and destinations BC considers business or entertainment visitors who are beyond the usual environment (usually more than 80 km from home).

As the tourism industry does not comply with industry-defined conventional methods such as manufacturing, forestry and other industries, there are many ways to measure the size of the tourism industry. Tourism constitutes various fields that provide visitors with various products and services. However, these companies also offer products and services to local residents.

The tourism and hospitality industry in British Columbia has 291,000 employees throughout the year and covers transportation, travel services, entertainment and entertainment, accommodation and catering services. The industry accounts for about 12% of BC's total labor force. Approximately half of the 291,000 workers (133,000 people) are hired directly to the state's annual income of $ 17 billion.

In the explanation of "tourism", the go2HR contains all 291,000 workers. This is because it is the number of projects that we need to adopt and train to support tourists and local residents. Economic reporting may further focus on 133,000 jobs generated by direct tourism expenditure for various purposes. Both numbers are correct

The heritage sector is considered one of the most vibrant and promising areas in the tourism industry. For example, Prentice, R (1993) classifies heritage tourism as a form of "new tourism". An interesting thing about heritage tourism is that it tends to rely on a wider range of environmental assets than most other forms of tourism. At the same time, Prentice, R (1993) emphasizes considerable heterogeneity evident in the supply of traditional tourist attractions, from breweries to nostalgic parks, amusement parks to various monuments.

What is "cultural tourism" indeed? (1) Before going too far, let's share some definitions. The World Tourism Organization defines "cultural tourism" as a trip for the purpose of accessing places and activities with cultural values ​​and historical values ​​(2). Cultural tourism includes means and opportunities for enjoying past human achievement. In other words, "By visiting these places, we can admire our father's achievements and create national pride and rediscovery." An important aspect of cultural tourism is intangible cultural heritage. It is defined as practices, expressions, knowledge and skills that communities and individuals consider to be part of their cultural heritage (3). Through generations of succession and ongoing reconstruction, they provide a sense of identity and continuity to humans.