It is known with the term of tourism to all those activities that human beings carry out when they travel and remain continuously for the term of less than a year outside their usual environment with a preeminently holiday and leisure purpose.
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 the technological innovations that culminated in a sophistication of the means of transport that allow the transfer even if it involves considerable distances in a very short time, tourism increased, becoming one of the main economic income of most of the countries of the world, however, already 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, for their part, the Romans used to take refuge from the stresses in the hot springs to which they also had to travel or traveled to the coast, in which they enjoyed of some well-deserved days of rest. In the Middle Ages, religion would be the motivation for trips and recreational days and then 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 gift. tour with the aim that they achieve their own experiences after having acquired the theory for a long time.
And as we pointed out above, thanks to Inventions such as the 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 America with Asia, have made tourism today around the world be 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 this, it was known that the cities of London, Bangkok, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong and the United States were the most chosen during 2006.
While 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 on its doors.
