Resort town
Videos
A resort town, resort city or resort destination is an urban area where tourism or vacationing is the primary component of the local culture and economy. A typical resort town has one or more actual r
Heiligendamm in Germany, established in 1793, the oldest seaside resort in continental Europe
Aerial view of the Cancún Hotel Zone island, from the top of the Torre Escénicain, May 2008
Railway station in Tatranská Lomnica ski resort, Slovakia
A comic drawn for a newspaper in a resort area; it depicts elderly local residents with limited income who are used to visiting attractions nearby.
Tourism
Videos
Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of touri
Looking at Times Square in New York City, the world's busiest tourist attraction, from north (top) and south (below)
The first sunrise seen from the torii gate on the sea, which is considered a sacred place (Ōarai in Japan)
A panoramic view of the interior of the Luxor temple, Luxor, Egypt.
A Japanese tourist consulting a tour guide and a guide book from Akizato Ritō's Miyako meisho zue (1787)