Tourism

Tourism, travel for recreation or instruction, often in organized groups.

For information on:

• pioneer organizer of tours, see Thomas Cook
• other travel companies and executives, see American Express Company; AMR Corporation; Peter Ueberroth; Sir William Cornelius Van Horne
• growth of the hotel industry, see Hotel: History
• tourism by air, see Air Transport Industry; Jet Lag
• documents required for international tourism, see Passport; Visa
• artificial tourist attractions, see The Walt Disney Company; Exhibitions and Expositions
• touring the wilderness, see Camping; Mountain Climbing
• ecotourism, tourist activities focusing on nature study and the environment, see Rain Forest: Rain Forest Conservation; Gray Whale; Butterflies and Moths: Importance and Conservation
• famous travelers who provided a window on other cultures, see Domingo Badía y Leblich; Isabella Bird Bishop; Niccolò dei Conti; Ibn Battūtah; Pausanias (historian); Marco Polo; May Sheldon
• importance of tourism to U.S. economy, see United States (Economy): Travel and Tourism
• organizations supporting travel and tourism, see United States Travel and Tourism Administration; Travelers Aid Association of America
• travel guidebooks, see Karl Baedeker; Camping: Getting Information
• travelers of fiction, see Sindbad the Sailor; Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels
• various tourist destinations around the world, see the Related Articles list