Chapters 1-3 Flashcards

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What are the 5 NAICS?

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  • Transportation
  • Accommodations
  • Travel services
  • Food/ beverage
  • Recreation/ entertainment
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What did Henry Ford do?

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  • He invented mass production
  • He created tourism
  • He put people to work
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Can tourism change things? Why?

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  • Yes
  • Connects people
  • Creates friendships
  • Breaks barriers/ walls
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What does NAICS stand for?

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North American Industrial Classification Systems

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Human Resource Challenges/Issues/Concerns- What is the Shrinking Labour Pool?

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  • Young workers/ unskilled immigrants is declining
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What are the Human Resource Challenges/Issues/Concerns?

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  • Industry image
  • Unskilled labour
  • Poor training
  • Poor attitudes
  • High turnovers
  • Shrinking labour pool
  • Demand for qualified labour pool
  • language barriers
  • Lack of recognition for institutional training
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What is it called when there is MORE elderly people THAN younger people?

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  • Aging population
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Biggest/ Most successful TDA?

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Walt Disney

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What is TDA?

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Tourist Destination

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Components of a generic destination- Natural Resources?

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  • Air, Land, Beauty
  • North America has the largest fresh water body of the world
  • Niagara falls
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Components of a generic destination- Infrastructure

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  • guts of the city
  • roads, sewage, railroads, airport runways
  • essential services
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Components of a generic destination- Suprastructure

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  • buildings, stores, hotels, restaurants

- all you can see

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Components of a generic destination- Transportation System

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  • vehicles that use the suprastructure
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Components of a generic destination- Hospitality of Host

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  • the warmth of host
  • friendly smile of locals
  • greetings/ willingness
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What are the 5 sense?

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  • hear, touch, taste, see, smell
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What are the 5 Components of a generic destination?

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  • natural resources
  • infrastructure
  • suprastructure
  • transportation
  • hospitality of host
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What are the 4 stages of life cycle for a destination?

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  • conception (idea)
  • building (building product)
  • maturity (developed)
  • decline (run down, need to refresh)
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What are the 4 most important ways to put a tourism plan into action?

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  • inventory (assess politicians)/infrastructure (product capacity)
  • forecasting (look into the future, opportunities)
  • develop a strategy (outline, detailed plan)
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What is qualitative?

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  • gathering information

- story telling

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What is quantitative?

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  • collect stats, data

- giving a choice

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What are the 3 ways of tourism development?

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  • intergrated (1 company provides all services, disney world)
  • catalytic (major hotel encourages other business to come join in on building destination)
  • coattail (no common theme)
22
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What are the 4 P’s of Marketing Mix?

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  • Product (what do you sell? physical (hotel room)/ service component (maid))
  • Place (where we connect customer with tourism product, not an address- it is a travel agent/service)
  • Price (how much does it cost)
  • Promotion (how you advertise product- tv, radio)
23
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What is the popular way to advertise tourism

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  • internet

- packages

24
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what is a traveler who visits a country, other than which they usually reside for at least 24 hours

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foreign tourist

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what is a traveler who travels within the country they reside for at least 24 hours and travels 80 km?
domestic tourist
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what is multiplier effect?
tourism dollars shows the beneficial effect a revenue has on nearly everyone in community
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what is travel deficit?
when canadians leave country, their tourism dollars are lost to canada
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what is leakage?
- demand for tourism product is greater than destinations | - community does not get full benefit of tourism dollars
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what are reasons for growth in tourism?
advancements in transportation, media coverage, internet, better educational services, more disposable income
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did tourism benefit from war? how?
yes because they advanced products such as airlines/ships/railroads
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what does UNWTO stand for? is it international or canadian?
world tourism organization | international
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what does CTC stand for? is it international or canadian? what do they do?
canadian tourism commission canadian promote tourism in Canada
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how many travelers did UNWTO report?
1.1 billion
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What does CTHRC stand for?
Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council
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what are demographics?
age, gender, ethnicity, income, education, location
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what is psychographics?
using motives or behaviour to categorize travellers
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what is an allocentric traveler
go outside the usual, willing to change
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what is an pyschocentric traveler?
they like comfort activities
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what is a midcentric traveler?
travels to seek a break/ in routine
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what is external locus?
believe events are pre-determined by powerful people, fate, chance
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what is internal locus?
they believe they are in charge, control their destiny
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what are push factors?
- things that appeal to guest | - generated from inner self, adventure, challenge, escape
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what are pull factors?
- draws guest to/ causes a person to go to a destination | - people, places, scenic areas, sports events
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what is discretionary income?
extra money people spend as they please
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what is discretionary time?
time that people have away from work/ obligations
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what are the 4 types of a business traveller
- frequent business traveller - luxury business traveller - female business traveller - international business traveller
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what is Maslows Hierarchy of needs? (5)
- physiological needs (food, shelter, water) - safety needs (security) - social needs (companionship) - ego/ self esteem (feeling important) - self actualization (achieving)
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what is tourism illiteracy
- a barrier | - lack of understanding of tourism
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what are common barriers to travelling?
``` cost lack of time health/ disabilities education age fear tourism illiteracy ```
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what does NCC stand for and what do they do?
National Capital Commission | promote Ottawa
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what is code of ethics?
- finding balance between cultures - moral knowing right/wrong - ethics is being clear with morals - understanding/ respect cultures - paper in business explaining this
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what does FAC stand for and what do they do?
foreign affairs canada | - responsible for issuing canadian passports