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Concept of Tourism

In general tourism is concerned with pleasure travel, holidays and going somewhere. These are the motivations by which a person or people are leaving their normal place of work and residence for short period of time temporarily to other place or a temporary break with a normal routine to engage in a new experience. Tourism is a temporary and short-term movement of people which is outside the place where the so called tourists live, work and stay. Tourists are voluntary temporary travelers, traveling in the expectations of pleasure. Person traveling to convention or business purposes are also the tourists. Tourism relates the temporary, short-term movement of people to destination outside the place where they normally live and work and their activities during their stay at these destinations. It is a pleasure activity in which money earned in one’s normal domicile is spent in the places visited. In other words tourism is the totality of the relationship and phenomenon arising from the t

The Martians have landed; the human race on earth

Sir Francis Crick, the Nobel laureate, says there are an estimated 100 billion galaxies in our universe and he believes there are at least one million planets in our galaxy that could support life as we know it. Think of what the figure might be for the entire universe, even before we start looking at other dimensions of existence beyond the frequency range of our physical senses. If we travelled at the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second, it would take us 4.3 years to reach the nearest star to this solar system. All over the planet are fantastic structures built thousands of years ago which could only have been created with technology as good as, often even better than, we have today. At Baalbek, north east of Beirut in the Lebanon, three massive chunks of stone, each weighing 800 tons, were moved at least a third of a mile and positioned high up in a wall. This was done thousands of years BC! Another block nearby weighs 1,000 tons - the weight of three jumbo jets. How was this