Tourism is the temporary nature of people's visits to the country, another state for a period of days to six months within one calendar month, or to the implementation of at least one overnight stay in the institutions of entertainment, recreation, sports, guest or cognitive type.

Thus, a person who carries out such a trip is called a tourist. Summary and full description of the term "tourism", due to the large number of functions and a large number of ways to show the tourist activity is difficult. Definition of Tourism was made at the highest international level, thus, by definition, the UN, in the mid-fifties, tourism was equated to otdyhuaktivnogo character that the most positive impact on the promotion of health and physical development of citizens of different countries. Tourism, in this definition, inextricably linked to the order of movement of citizens outside their state.

According to the World Conference of the nature of which was devoted to tourism in the early 1980s in Madrid, was given the definition of tourism: "Tourism - a kind of relaxation of the active character, which is a journey, who are committed to research and knowledge of certain areas , of unknown species in a number of elements combined with the sports process. " Further, in the early 90s, the UN commission determined that tourism is an activity of persons who carry out the processes to implement their travel and stay in places that are outside their country of residence. All this is determined by a time interval not to exceed one year in calendar terms, the objectives of different nature. It should be noted that there are other definitions of the term "tourism", which reflect different aspects of this phenomenon. The variety of definitions associated with the duality of the nature of the internal nature of the phenomenon of tourism.

Thus, on the one hand, tourism - is the definition relating to the particular case of the traveler, on the other hand - is an activity for the manufacture and production of tourism product type. Thus, we can note that the journey itself and the production of the tourism product is the result of the human mind. However, the term production is the sense of economic activity, which has a goal - to provide benefits, but the journey itself - is moving in space through a variety of vehicles.