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 In 1968, the International Union of Official Travel Organizations, which later became the World Tourism Organization (WTO), adopted this definition. In the same year, the United Nations Statistical Commission accepted this definition, too, but recommended that member-nations decide for themselves whether to use the term “excursionist” or “day visitor”. The important point was to distinguish between visitors who did or did not stay overnight. Once again the definition
failed to take
domestic tourism into account, but as far as international purposes were concerned, it was one of the most commonly used definitions of tourist.
In 1968, the International Union of Official Travel Organizations, which later became the World Tourism Organization (WTO), adopted this definition. In the same year, the United Nations Statistical Commission accepted this definition, too, but recommended that member-nations decide for themselves whether to use the term “excursionist” or “day visitor”. The important point was to distinguish between visitors who did or did not stay overnight. Once again the definition failed to
take
domestic tourism into account, but as far as international purposes were concerned, it was one of the most commonly used definitions of tourist.
When it comes to domestic tourists, one will easily see
that they are sometimes more difficult to define than are international
tourists, and their definitions are more varied than that of the latter.
To clarify this, the World Tourism Organization has proposed a definition
based on length of stay. It describes a “domestic tourist” as “any
person residing within a country, irrespective of nationality, traveling
to a place within this country other than his usual residence for
a period of not less than 24 hours or one night, for a purpose other
the exercise of a remunerated activity in the place visited. The motives
for such travel may be: A leisure (recreation , holiday, health, studies,
religion or sports); B business, family, mission or meeting |
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