Tourism comprises of the activities of people travelling to and staying in places outside their usual
environment, for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business or other purposes (Holden, 2008).
Wall and Mathieson (2006) defined tourism as “the study of people away from their usual habitat, of the
establishment which responds to the requirement of travellers and of the impacts that they have on the
economic, physical and social well being of their host”. This definition recognises the key players in the
industry as tourists (people who travel out of their usual place of residence), tourism industry (establishments
that responds to the needs of travellers), impacts (economic, environmental, social and cultural) and the host
community whose tourism resource the tourist have come to enjoy.