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Northern Ireland (Ulster-Scots: ') is a constituent unit of the United Kingdom in the north-east of Ireland.

It is as a country, province, region, or "part" of the United Kingdom, amongst other terms.

Northern Ireland shares a border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland.

In 2011, its population was 1,810,863, constituting about 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the UK's population.

Established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998 as part of the Good Friday Agreement, the Northern Ireland Assembly holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters, while other areas are reserved for the British government.

Northern Ireland co-operates with the Republic of Ireland in some areas, and the Agreement granted the Republic the ability to "put forward views and proposals" with "determined efforts to resolve disagreements between the two governments".

Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.

Tourism may be international, or within the traveller's country.

The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".