An introduction
Man since antquiity(ancient time) is wanderlust(wants to explore). That is he loves to travel. He believes that travels broadens mind . visiting the place is worth scores of books on it.modern tourists visit places to know about the local people culture. Broadly speakin anyone who visit a place for holiday, health,conferenceec can be called a tourist.




Tourist: Human are social beings. They dont like to live in isolation. from the very begining people move or transfer from one to another places for different purpose. In the nomadic age the travel in search for food and water. later on after the permanent settlement they explored the world mainly for trade, commerce and for adventure. The world history is full of wonderful accounts of the travellers like marcopolo, columbus, vascodegama, captain cook, asoka,etc




nowadays, people visit different places for recreation, health, holiday, religion, business, sports, seminar, official meeting, family meeting ,etc. i.e the person who leaves his place for short period and travels in a new land for adventure is called a tourist.
The word “tourist” has been derived from the word “tour” which means “a journey at which one returns to starting point or a circular trip”. But the people who transfer another country for stay permanently, to take up occupation or the students who come for study, those travellers are not categories or classified as tourists.