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Tourism
Tourism comprises the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year (12 months) for leisure, business or other purposes. This includes goods and services the tourist pays for personally or somebody pays for on his/her behalf, or which the tourists receives without compensation for his/her own use or to be given to someone else. Included are expenses paid before the trip or after it. Tourism does not include international transport of tourists, which is included in passenger transports of transport services.
Statistics using the definition
Validity of the definition
- Valid
Source organisation
- Tilastokeskus
Related concepts
- Country of residence
- Passenger transportation accounts
- Domestic trip
- Domestic tourism
- International tourism
- International tourism expenditure
- Visitor
- Visit
- Short trip
- Tourism in neighbouring countries
- Inbound tourism
- Internal tourism
- Type of accommodation establishment
- Tourist accommodation
- Accommodation establishment
- Type of accommodation
- Trip
- Tourist
- Main destination of trip
- Duration of trip
- Reason for trip
- Tourism expenditure
- Visitor
- Travel accounts
- Trip to own holiday home
- Package tour
- Long trip
- Same-day visitor
- Same-day visit
- Day cruise
- Cruise
- Arrival in accommodation establishment
- Usual environment
- Business trip
- Trip abroad
- Outbound tourism
- Leisure trip
- Visit to friends and relatives
- Rented cottage, holiday dwelling
- Price per overnight
- Overnight trip
- Overnight stay
Tourism comprises the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than 12 consecutive months for leisure, business and other purposes.
Statistics using the definition
Validity of the definition
- Valid
Source organisation
- WTO (matkailu)
Related concepts
- Country of residence
- Passenger transportation accounts
- Domestic trip
- Domestic tourism
- International tourism
- International tourism expenditure
- Visitor
- Visit
- Short trip
- Tourism in neighbouring countries
- Inbound tourism
- Internal tourism
- Type of accommodation establishment
- Tourist accommodation
- Accommodation establishment
- Type of accommodation
- Trip
- Tourist
- Main destination of trip
- Duration of trip
- Reason for trip
- Tourism expenditure
- Visitor
- Travel accounts
- Trip to own holiday home
- Package tour
- Long trip
- Same-day visitor
- Same-day visit
- Day cruise
- Cruise
- Arrival in accommodation establishment
- Usual environment
- Business trip
- Trip abroad
- Outbound tourism
- Leisure trip
- Visit to friends and relatives
- Rented cottage, holiday dwelling
- Price per overnight
- Overnight trip
- Overnight stay
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