[主观题] 【翻译】While it is relatively easy to agree on technical definitions of particular categories of tourism or tourist, the wider concept is ill-defined. Firstly, it is important to recognize that tourism is just one form of recreation, along with sports activities, hobbies and pastimes, and all of these are discretionary uses of our leisure time. Tourism usually incurs expenditure, although not necessarily so; a cyclist or hiker out for a camping weekend and carrying his own food may contribute nothing to the tourism revenue of a region. Many other examples could be cited where tourism expenditure is minimal. We can say, then that tourism is one aspect of leisure usually, but not always, incurring expense on the part of the participant.
Conceptually, to define tourism precisely is a difficult if not impossible task. To produce a technical definition for statistical purposes is less problematic. As long as it is clear what the data comprised, and one compares like with like, whether inter-regionally or internationally, we can leave the conceptual discussion to academics. With the development of mass tourism, perhaps the most accurate definition of a tourist is “someone who travels to see something different, and then complains when he finds things are not the same”!

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