On 23/10/2010 13:36, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
I was astonished as well: "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."[1]"
This is a quote from a WTO document; an organization that, by it's own admittance goes further than the usual definition to allow the accountants to calculate the total income.
I'd rather stick with bodies whose purpose it is is to define the meaning of words; such as the OED:
http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_gb0873740#m_en_gb0873740 Cheers Dave F. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
