Article 2 - Definitions

‘reference period’ means a period to which data refer;

‘reference year’ means a reference period of 1 calendar year;

‘NACE Rev. 2’ means the common statistical classification of economic activities within the Union, as established by Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council ¹;

‘NUTS’ means the common classification of territorial units for the production of regional statistics within the Union, as established by Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council ²;

‘usual environment’ means the geographical area, though not necessarily a contiguous one, within which an individual conducts his regular life routines and shall be determined on the basis of the following criteria: the crossing of administrative borders or the distance from the place of usual residence, the duration of the visit, the frequency of the visit, the purpose of the visit;

‘tourism’ means the activity of visitors taking a trip to a main destination outside their usual environment, for less than a year, for any main purpose, including business, leisure or other personal purpose, other than to be employed by a resident entity in the place visited;

‘domestic tourism’ means visits within a Member State by visitors who are residents of that Member State;

‘inbound tourism’ means visits to a Member State by visitors who are not residents of that Member State;

‘outbound tourism’ means visits by residents of a Member State outside that Member State;

‘national tourism’ means domestic and outbound tourism;

‘internal tourism’ means domestic and inbound tourism;

‘tourist accommodation establishment’ means a local kind-of-activity unit, as defined in the Annex to Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 of 15 March 1993 on the statistical units for the observation and analysis of the production system in the Community ³, providing as a paid service — although the price might be partially or fully subsidised — short-stay accommodation services as described in groups 55.1 (hotels and similar accommodation), 55.2 (holiday and other short-stay accommodation) and 55.3 (camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks) of NACE Rev. 2;

‘non-rented accommodation’ means, inter alia, accommodation provided without charge by family or friends and accommodation in owner-occupied vacation homes, including time share properties;

‘same-day visits’ means visits without overnight stay made by residents outside their usual environment and which originated from the place of usual residence.