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The term tourism is known to all those activities that human beings carry out when they travel and remain continuously for a term of less than a year outside their usual environment with a pre-eminently purpose vacation and leisure.

Practically, since man began to experience the need for recreation, to get out of the routine and daily life that tasks and jobs suppose and impose, there is tourism, of course, that over the years and technological innovations that culminated in a sophistication of the media transport that allow the transfer even if it is considerable distances in a very short time, tourism increased, becoming one of the main income However, from very remote times we can find antecedents of tourism.

For example, the Greeks traveled long distances to attend their main attraction: the Olympic Games, on the other hand, the Romans used to take refuge from the tensions in the thermal waters to which They also had to move or traveled to the coast, where they enjoyed a few well-deserved days of break. In the

Middle Ages religion would be motivation of trips and recreational days and then with the to run over the years it began to become a frequent practice among those people who belonged to the aristocracy, who at the end of the year of study gave their children a tour with the aim of achieving their own experiences after having acquired the theory for a long time.

And as we pointed out above, thanks to inventions like airplane, which took place after the incessant contribution of technology and which shortened the distances, allowing to travel a great distance such as the one that separates south of America with Asia, have made tourism around the world nowadays an incessant constant even in those places least thought by inhospitable.

Among the preferences of today's travelers and thanks to a measurement that sheds light on it, it was known that the cities of London, Bangkok, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong and the United States were the most chosen during the year 2006.

In both the Wall of China, Times Square, Disney, Niagara Falls, the Eiffel Tower, the Vatican, the Statue of Liberty and The Grand Canyon of the Colorado are the main tourist attractions that each year attract millions and millions of people in their doors.

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