| Term | Description |
| Categorization | A strategy process that includes an easing of cognitive processes through the reduction of the information collected, allowing reason classification from data collection, which is a technique of observation and recording of categorical (nominal) judgments |
| Category | Concepts grouping and communicating specific qualitative information by denoting a topic in itself, creating the origin of the information collected for a specific aim of the research |
| Subcategory | Concepts derived and related from categories that group and communicate specific qualitative information, detailing with deeper specialization information collected for a specific aim of the research |
| Host community | Native or migrant individuals residing permanent or temporary in a tourist destination, who are heterogeneous and complementary, with different cultures, identities, and local values interacting and playing a central and influential role in the development and atmosphere perceived in that destination |
| Native people | Those who originally inhabited the place, even before it was considered as a new tourist project, and who were born in it |
| Migrants | Those who were born in a different place from the destination and moved to reside in it, and who reside permanently or temporarily in the destination |
| Residents | Those natives or migrants who live in a destination with the intention of becoming a member of the host community rather than a tourist; they may reside permanently or temporarily in their destination |