Tourism - temporary visits (travel) people in another country or locality other than the place of permanent residence for a period of 24 hours to 6 months in one calendar year or the commission of at least one night of entertainment, recreation, sports, guest, cognitive, religious and other purposes without the exercise of an activity remunerated from a local source. Person who commits such a trip, call the tourist

The number of foreign tourists visiting Africa, and receipts from them are relatively small and constitute about 2-3% of the world. The growth of international tourism in Africa was hindered by high prices for African products turistoobrazuyuschih markets. However, in recent years, the region switched to low-cost mass, mostly beach tourism, especially in the north of the continent from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

The largest generating market for the region are the African countries themselves, yielding up to 50% of all tourists. Other turistoobrazuyuschie countries - France, Germany, Great Britain. This is because not so long ago these countries were metropolitan African colonies. The most popular tourist destination located in the north - Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, in the east - Kenya, Tanzania, Seychelles, Mauritania, Zimbabwe. Some of them specialize in luxury beach tourism and develop the upscale hotel industry, receiving from each room to $ 900

In southern Africa, is a popular tourist center of South Africa, which heads the list of the first countries in the continent of arrivals and receipts. South Africa has a developed transport and hotel infrastructure, as well as becoming a fashionable country in international tourism. However, Africa as a whole lags behind in international tourism because many countries are economically developed and politically stable, and in many parts of the continent's ongoing military conflict, epidemic.