Tourism

Adam Wilson
Université de Lorraine
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The UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) defines tourism as “a social, cultural and economic phenomenon which entails the movement of people to countries or places outside their usual environment”. According to the same source, tourism refers both to this phenomenon of temporary movement and to the activities people undertake during it.

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