ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two classes of travellers such as business travellers/business tourists and leisure tourists at the international level from several basic perspectives: motivations and goals; relative magnitude; spatial patterns; and interrelationships between the two classes of travellers. The contemporary rather significant increase in international leisure tourism has received much attention in tourism studies as well as in cognate fields. Spatial touristic patterns present mixed and complex trends when it comes to a comparison between business and leisure tourisms. Normally leisure tourists make use of business infrastructure and services. The complex interrelationships between the two classes of business and leisure travels come into expression through two special groups of visitors: returners and extenders. Furthermore, leisure tourism may bring about business tourism and vice versa. Cities, notably major ones, serve as the joint spatial platforms and meeting arenas for business and leisure tourisms and tourists, and hence the importance of urban tourism.
