First and foremost, it is necessary to understand what tourism is, its defining
parameters, and early and recent concepts of tourism before exploring CBT in
particular. However, although nowadays most people undoubtedly have some
understanding of what tourism is, it is a phenomenon that remains quite difficult to
define. That is, it is something of a multidimensional and ambiguous phenomenon,
however, we can say that tourism broadly concerns the movement of people which can
be defined as both a social and economic phenomenon (Sharpley 2009)