Tourism is defined as the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited.

The use of this broad concept can be applied to both tourism between countries and tourism within one's own country. "Tourism" refers to all visitor activities, whether they be "tourists (visitors staying overnight)" or "same day visitors (day trippers)".