Tourism: The Many Important Characteristics Of Tourism Around The World

Tourism is the travel to a new place for a specific reason. In the middle ages religious people mostly Christians, Islamic and Buddhist faith had pilgrimage traditions. They would encourage the lower classes to undertake distant journeys for health or spiritual improvement. A bit later on in history, the Grand Tour which can also be seen as a historical trace to modern tourism, it is a traditional trip around Europe. It was endured by mainly young European men of the upper-class. It served as an educational purpose and it was in some ways a rite of passage. This is one of the reasons that could have led to the modernised GAP year.
Characteristics
Tourism has many important characteristics that describe in a way, what tourism is all about

Transport
Transport is a necessity in this day and age so therefore transport is so important to the tourism industry. Without transport people would not be able to go out into the world to see and experience other places and people that live in the world, or to go understand other cultures and societies around the world. There are many different forms of transport such as Air, Land and Waterborne. These different forms of transport are to accommodate the many different types of destinations that people need to go to. Land transport has a few different types of transport as well like railway, roads and cycling.
Accommodation
When people travel to their destination, they are naturally going to need a place to sleep, and that is how accommodation becomes so important to travellers. There are many different types of places to stay when travelling such like, Hotels, Guest Houses, Campsites, Caravans, B&B’s even youth hostels. But however accommodation is split into two different parts such as serviced and non-serviced. The serviced part is that there are maid services and kitchen services for example in a hotel there is housekeeping and room services. And the non-serviced side that requires the people to clean and cook for themselves, like at a