When I venture on a trip either outside or inside my country, who am I?
1- How do I want to be recognized?
2- How do I describe myself?
We know that tourism today is the new relaxant, every stress has a solution when we take a short or long vacation. Tourism is an experience that includes a bit of everything: culture, different social environments, income, expenses, growth, movement of people from country to country or within their own usual environment, tourism covers a lot.
But the truth is that we are not all tourists, and many of us do not even like to be called that. Here we leave you different terms to refer to a person, when he/she leaves his/her usual environment and visits different destinations. You decide how you want to call yourself.
First term Travelers:
It is the broadest concept of all, and from it the others are derived. Any person who is making a trip (no matter the reason) between two geographically different places and outside their usual environment, it is appropriate to call him/her a traveler. Except if it is for reasons of work, exile, diplomats or migrants, they are not travelers.
When we say that a person is a traveler; it doesn’t matter if he traveled for less or more than 24 hours, if he dawns or not in that place, or if he spent a lot or a little; just by moving from one environment to another, he can be considered a traveler. Therefore, visitors, tourists and excursionists are all considered travelers.
Now, when you are a Visitor:
This term is given when you travel to a destination other than your environment or home for a period of less than one year no matter the reason that motivates that trip, except for a work trip that requires your establishment in another place either nationally or internationally. Two terms bit from this term visitor: tourists and excursionists.
You are a Tourist:
A tourist is a visitor or a traveler with the intention of staying at your destination, that is to say that he/she stays for a minimum of 24 hours and as I already commented not more than one year. The reasons for this trip may vary; they may be of a personal, professional or business nature. This category, in turn, is divided into different forms of tourism (discover them here).
Excursionists:
Like tourists, every excursionist is a traveler, but here the condition is that during their trip they must not spend more than 24 hours at the destination, i.e., they must not spend more than 24 hours there. For statistical purposes, hikers are normally people who travel to border cities, either in their own vehicle or in other means of tourist transportation.
The hiker is usually a person who loves adventures, the new, the different, has no problem in tasting a typical food, or a drink of the region or a local coffee, for example. They are risky people to go to the mountains, to go horseback riding or simply enjoy nature without any fear, they are lovers of excursions, the more extreme the better.
As we can see, each concept is related to the previous one, it is as if we had a pyramid and in the lowest link there is room for those above, and in the second link again for those above, and so on; so, we can conclude that every tourist is a traveler, but not every traveler is a tourist.
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