Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than twenty-four (24) hours and not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited."
Tourism has become a popular global leisure...
Travel is movement of people between relatively distant geographical locations for any purpose and any duration, with or without any means of transport.
Travel also includes relatively short stays between successive movements. Movements between locations requiring only a few minutes are not considered as travel.
Purpose and motivation
Purpose of travel include recreation or tourism, research travel for the gathering of information, for...
Travel photography is a subcategory of photography involving the documentation of an area's landscape, people, cultures, customs and history.
The Photographic Society of America defines a travel photo as an image that expresses the feeling of a time and place, portrays a land, its people, or a culture in its natural state, and has no geographical limitations.
Travel photography can either be created by professionals or amateurs. Examples...
Summer vacation (also called six weeks holiday, summer holidays (UK) or summer break) is a vacation in the summertime between school years in which students and instructors are off school typically between 6 and 12 weeks, depending on the country and district.
In Australia, the Summer season officially lasts from December to February, and therefore coincides with the Christmas and New Year holidays. The dates of Australian school holidays...