... ever-changing tourism industry. Therefore, understanding the complexity of the definition and the contributing factors, it is very difficult to ascertain who and who isn't a tourist. There are two different approaches to the definition of a tourist that is, from the international and domestic perspective. According to the World Tourism Organisation (WTO) (1981) cited in Smith (1989, p. 19) an international tourist is a 'visitor to a foreign country spending at least one night in accommodation in that country but remaining less than one year in the country visited'. The WTO is extremely specific about the time characteristic of a tourist. The WTO specified these particular spatial conditions due to economic and statistical purposes. For an individual to be a tourist they need to impact on the country that they are visiting and as such, need to partake in the infrastructure and the goods and services industry. According to the ...

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