• What is tourism?

• Why do tourists visit a place?

• Do you think Indian tourists and foreign tourists visit places for the same reasons?

• Tourism refers to travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes or the provision of services to support this leisure travel.

• Tourists visit places due to various reasons such as-

1. Curiosity about off places;

2. To study a place’s culture and ethnicity;

3. To do shopping;

4. To seek adventure;

5. To experience a wide variety of cuisine;

6. In search of peace and relaxation, away from one’s monotonous life.

• Most of the reasons to visit places, like learning a place’s culture and ethnicity and tasting good food, are the same, irrespective of the tourists being Indian or foreigner.