Under tourism (also: Tourism) one understands the whole of all accomplished journeys.

Origin and word meaning

The term tourism (English tourism, frz. tourisme, ital. turismo) goes back on the French noun le route (= journey, also Rundgang/walk), is however for the first time around 1800 in English occupied; in the French it dips 1816 on and in the German around 1830.

The French words tourisme and touriste were used for the first time as official terms of the nation, in order to describe travelers, who spend more than 24 hours abroad. Meanwhile under tourism however also the domestic travel is summarized. In Germany for example go away more humans within the country than abroad.

In all rule the term refers today to the travel kind of the vacation trip. Business travelers, pilgrim, researcher etc. are hardly ever called "“tourists"”. Within the vacation segment are meanwhile a whole set from compositions to the specification of the travel purpose common. Examples are about bathing, ski, moving, culture or Sextourismus. Besides the term becomes sometimes sarkastisch the marking more rising, but from view of the speaker of unwanted travel activity within certain vacation-independent ranges uses (asylum, abortion, garbage, drug, alcohol, disaster tourism among other things).

One calls the destination primarily in Switzerland Touristendestination.

History

'' Major items: History of the tourism

Long time had only a small part of the population the means and the time to be able to go on journeys. In particular journeys for recovery purposes were to a large extent a privilege of the aristocracy, which sent its sons on so-called Kavaliersreisen, as well as later also the elevated middle class.

An inclusion also the simpler conditions took place, certainly first in modest measure, only at the beginning 20. Century. To that extent Kraft represented a milestone by joy program of the national socialists. After the Second World War meanwhile a precipitous rise of the travel activity of all social classes was to be registered. The general economic upswing led in Germany and many other European countries to the historical new phenomenon of the mass tourism.

Particularly strongly rose travel intensity and - frequency in the last 30 years: Thus the portion of the travelers of the total population increased over 14 years from 1954 to 1989 of 24% to 66,8%. That corresponds annually to an increase of the travelers from 9,3 millions to 32,6 millions. The journeys of the East German citizens are not considered for statistic reasons. However here the development shows again a substantial increase.

According to the 36. Travel analysis (RA) of the research council vacation and journeys (FUR), published in March 2006, is the travel intensity in Germany with 73,6% and the vacation trip frequency lies about 1,34 journeys.

Growth reasons

The travel desire in the last hundred years is to be due in principle to the technical and social changes of the society. By the technical progress the world, in the transferring sense, became smaller. Travel ever more people. The statistics stated that exactly 43% of humans from the Federal Republic of Germany travel abroad.

Leisure behavior

One substantial reasons of the rising tourism is the changed leisure behavior of the population, the so-called social progress of the of the daily, week and life work time, the more spare time with itself pulled and thus the need to use these for recovery.

Ever a generation did not have as much spare time. In the last 40 years increased the work-daily spare time of 1,5 to 4,1 hours, which week final spare time increased from 1,5 to 2 days and the vacation duration has itself from 9 days to 31 days trebled. With the leisure development a rapid motorizing and a rising prosperity accompanied, which both placed the travel desire of the Germans against the world point. To it the trend comes ever more frequently and ever more briefly into the vacation to drive.

Apart from the changed leisure behavior income paste run gene, economic growth, higher life expectancy and the increasing individual mobility to an increase like an explosion of the passenger traffic led.

Commercialization

A further reason for the increase of the tourism is the commercialization. On the one hand it created the conditions for fast and comfortable travel with new means of transport such as railway, automobile and airplane. On the other hand it contributed also to the infrastructural development of tourism places. To it the development of the bed capacity, the restoration, the traffic-technical conditions (roads, rails, airports, ports) and the appropriate means of transport and supplying structures (energy, drains, telecommunications equipment, attendance of patients, cultural facilities etc.) belongs.

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