Tourism has great relevance for the economy of many countries.
Relevance is the characteristic of what is relevant (that is, what is fundamental, transcendent or substantial). What has relevance, therefore, has importance .
For example: “There is no need to make a big controversy about this topic: it was just a discussion without relevance” , “The relevance of the matter was evident when the president of the club gave his opinion on the matter at a press conference” , “The mayor promised to hire a relevant artist to perform at the celebrations for the city's anniversary."
The obvious and the subjective
In many cases, the relevance of something is obvious . In a country whose tourism industry generates 72% of the wealth, no one would dispute the relevance of tourism to the local economy.
In other contexts, however, relevance is a much more subjective issue. A literary critic may consider that a certain writer is relevant in the national intellectual panorama, while another may assure that the same author is not important but is just someone who is intelligent or skilled at selling his work.
Social networks are relevant in modern societies.
The relevance of social networks
Nowadays, it must be said that the term relevance is very commonly used to refer to social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram...). Specifically, it not only establishes the important role that these have in the daily life of any citizen from an entertainment point of view, who uses them almost as a public newspaper, but also for information.
And the fact is that the number of people who turn to these Internet platforms and applications to find out what is happening in the world and in the sectors in which they are most interested has grown considerably, be it politics, culture, the economy, sport…
The trends
They have this information through tweets from other users and also through what is known as trending topic. This is a term, also called relevance topic or trending topic, that is used to refer to the most important issues of the moment around the planet, which are most talked about on social networks.
Thus, Twitter is where you can discover the list of the trending topics of the moment around the world. That is, the topics that are most relevant at that moment. Examples of issues that have reached this category are from Lionel Messi's goals to the results of the elections in Spain, to cases of political corruption or the release of new singles or video clips by the best-known artists.
Orographic and accounting relevance
The indicator that qualifies the importance of a mountain within a nation or a region is known as orographic relevance . This is a scale whose score reaches up to 100 .
For accounting , relevance is one of the qualitative characteristics that accounting data must have, such as comparability and reliability. Accounting relevance refers to the fact that the information must be of sufficient importance to exert some type of influence on the decision-making of those who may use it.