involves attending a large meeting of some kind. Most tourist facilities, such as airports, restaurants and hotels, are shared between leisure and business tourists, through a seasonal difference is often apparent (for example, business tourism may use those facilities during times less attractive for leisure tourists, such as when the weather conditions are less attractive). Business tourism can be divided into: traditional business traveling, or meetings - intended for face-to-face meetings with business partners in different locations incentive trips - a job perk, aimed at motivating employees (for example, approximately a third of UK companies use this strategy to motivate workers) conference and exhibition traveling - intended for attending large-scale meetings. In an estimated number of 14,000 conferences worldwide (for 1994), primary destinations are Paris, London, Madrid, Geneva, Brussels, Washington, New York, Sydney and Singapore The words meetings, incentive, conferences and exhibition in the context of business tourism are abbreviated as MICE. See also Environmental impact of aviation Hypermobility (travel) Marketing References Working conditions Types of tourism Types of travel Tourism