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The genre of travel literature or travelogue encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs.

Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel.

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 "travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure and not less than 24 hours, business and other purposes".

Tourism can be domestic (within the traveller's own country) or international, and international tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country's balance of payments.

Travel is the movement of people between distant geographical locations.

Travel can be done by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip.

Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements, as in the case of tourism.

Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.

Culture is often originated from or attributed to a specific region or location.

Leisure has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time.

Free time is time spent away from business, work, job hunting, domestic chores, and education, as well as necessary activities such as eating and sleeping.

Leisure as an experience usually emphasizes dimensions of perceived freedom and choice.

It is done for "its own sake", for the quality of experience and involvement.

Other classic definitions include Thorstein Veblen's (1899) of "nonproductive consumption of time." Free time is not easy to define due to the multiplicity of approaches used to determine its essence.

Different disciplines have definitions reflecting their common issues: for example, sociology on social forces and contexts and psychology as mental and emotional states and conditions.

From a research perspective, these approaches have an advantage of being quantifiable and comparable over time and place.