TOURISM is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes.The World TOURISM Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in PLACES outside their usual environment for more than twenty-four (24) hours and not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited."[1]Making a holiday involving an overnight stay away from the normal place of residence. This is in contrast to recreation which involves leisure activities lasting lessthan twenty-four hours. This holiday may be basedon the cultural, historic, and social attractions of an urban center, oron the appeal of a different environment. Urban TOURISM increases the importance of the central place while TOURISM at the periphery can provide the income for economic development.