The domain of tourism
Tourism de®nitions can be classi®ed into those
associated with the popular usage of the term
(e.g.WH Smith/Collins, 1988), those used to
facilitate statistical measurement (e.g. WTO,
1981), and those used to articulate its con-
ceptual domain (e.g. Murphy, 1986). Although
the last of these has the most direct relevance
for this paper, all of the de®nitions tend to
share key dimensions. The most prevalent of
these is a spatial dimension. Tourism involves