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Tourism
Tourism is travel outside one's usual environment for less than a year for any purpose other than working there, one of the world's largest economic sectors.
Tourism economics
Tourism economics is the field that measures tourism's economic impact using tourism satellite accounts, since tourism spans many sectors and cannot be measured like a single industry.
Tourism in Australia
Tourism in Australia is the set of industries serving domestic and international visitors, worth $81.1 billion and 696,000 jobs in 2024-25, still recovering from the COVID-19 collapse in arrivals.
Tourism in France
Tourism in France, also called travel in France, is the activity of travelers within France, the world's most visited country with 102 million international arrivals in 2025.
Tourism in Goa
Tourism in Goa is a major sector of the state's economy, contributing 16.43% of gross state domestic product and employing around 250,000 (2.5 lakh) people, nearly 40% of the workforce.
Tourism in India
Tourism in India is the travel of domestic and foreign visitors to Indian destinations, an economic sector contributing 5.22% of GDP and 13.34% of employment in 2023-24.
Tourism in Indonesia
Tourism in Indonesia is the travel sector serving foreign and domestic visitors, centered on Bali, with 13.9 million international arrivals and US$16.7 billion earned in 2024.
Tourism in Italy
Tourism in Italy: a top global destination with 139.6 million arrivals and 466.2 million nights in 2024, 62 UNESCO sites, 10.5% of GDP, and overtourism measures in Venice, Florence, and Rome.
Tourism in Jammu and Kashmir
Tourism in Jammu and Kashmir, run by the J&K Department of Tourism and JKTDC, spans pilgrimage (Vaishno Devi, Amarnath), Kashmir Valley resorts like Gulmarg and Pahalgam, and record arrivals of 2.35 crore in 2024.
Tourism in Japan
Tourism in Japan, also called Japanese tourism, covers inbound, domestic, and outbound travel; a record 42.7 million foreign visitors spent ¥9.5 trillion in 2025, making tourism Japan's second-largest export industry.
Tourism in Kerala
Tourism in Kerala is a major service economy built on backwaters, beaches, hill stations, wildlife sanctuaries, and Ayurveda, drawing 25 million domestic visitors and earning Rs 507 billion (Rs 50,702 crore) in 2025.
Tourism in Mexico
Tourism in Mexico is a major economic sector that drew 45 million international visitors in 2024, the sixth most worldwide, and contributed 8.7% of gross value added.
Tourism in North Korea
Tourism in North Korea is an industry in which foreign visitors travel only on guided tours through approved operators, closed from 2020 until a partial reopening to Russians in 2024.
Tourism in Pakistan
Tourism in Pakistan: travel sector built on Karakoram mountaineering, Gilgit-Baltistan, Sikh and Buddhist heritage, and domestic travel. GDP contribution 5.9% (2022), PTDC and NTCB institutions, visa reform for 126 countries.
Tourism in Sri Lanka
Tourism in Sri Lanka is one of the country's leading foreign-exchange earners, reaching a record 2.36 million visitors in 2025 after recovering from war, the 2019 attacks, COVID-19, and the 2022 economic collapse.
Tourism in Thailand
Tourism in Thailand is one of the country's largest industries, drawing 35.5 million international visitors in 2024 and directly generating 5.5% of GDP and 12% of employment.
Tourism in the Philippines
Tourism in the Philippines, promoted under the slogan "It's More Fun in the Philippines," is a travel industry that contributed 8.1 percent of GDP in 2025.
Tourism in the United States
Tourism in the United States is the travel of domestic and international visitors, generating $2.64 trillion in output and 10 million jobs in 2023, with 72.4 million international arrivals in 2024.
Tourist (musician)
Tourist is the stage name of William Phillips, a British electronic producer who won the 2015 Grammy for Song of the Year co-writing "Stay with Me."
Tourist attraction
Tourist attraction: permanent natural, cultural or built assets managed as visitor experiences. Covers Leiper's attraction system, classifications, 2024 visitation data (246m theme-park visits; British Museum 6.5m), World Heritage listing effects, and overtourism controls at Venice and the Acropolis.
Tourist Family
Tourist Family (2025) is a Tamil comedy-drama, the debut of director Abishan Jeevinth, starring M. Sasikumar and Simran as a Sri Lankan Tamil family settling illegally in Chennai; it grossed about ₹87 crore worldwide on a ₹7 crore budget.
Tourist guy
Tourist Guy, or Tourist of Death (Péter Guzli), a hoax photo of a man on a WTC observation deck time-stamped 9/11/2001; actually taken November 28, 1997, with a pasted-in Boeing 757, debunked by Snopes and Wired.
Tourist Trap
Tourist Trap (1979) is an American PG horror film directed by David Schmoeller, starring Chuck Connors as Mr. Slausen, whose telekinetic mannequins menace stranded travelers; an $800,000 Charles Band production praised by Stephen King.
Tourmaline
Tourmaline is a group of more than 40 borosilicate mineral species with prismatic crystals and one of the widest color ranges of any gemstone, from red to green and blue.
Tourmaline (activist)
Tourmaline (born 1983, formerly Reina Gossett) is an American Black trans artist, filmmaker, writer, and activist. Known for Happy Birthday, Marsha!, Salacia, the Trap Door anthology, and the 2025 Marsha P. Johnson biography; SRLP healthcare campaign organizer.
Tourmaline Oil Corp.
Tourmaline Oil Corp. is a Calgary-based Canadian oil and gas company founded in 2008 by Michael Rose and identifying itself as Canada's largest natural gas producer.
Tournament
Tournament: an organized competition of matches producing a ranking or champion. Covers the medieval knightly combat sport (1050-1550) and modern formats such as round robin, knockout, and Swiss system.
Tournament of Champions (TV series)
Tournament of Champions (TOC) is a Food Network cooking competition hosted by Guy Fieri since March 2020, with a single-elimination chef bracket, the Randomizer wheel, and blind judging; women won the first five seasons, with Maneet Chauhan the only two-time champion.
Tournament of Roses Honor Band
The Tournament of Roses Honor Band is Pasadena City College's Rose Parade band, official band of the Tournament since 1930, with 225 spots filled by audition from over 500 Southern California high school students, plus the Herald Trumpets unit.
Tournament selection
Tournament selection is a parent-selection operator in evolutionary algorithms: it draws k random candidates and copies the fittest into the mating pool, with pressure rising with tournament size.