Exam Flashcards
Tourism
the short term movement of people to places away from normal residence for no more that 1 consecutive year
Hospitality
provision of food, beverages and accommodation away from home
Tourism and hospitality interrelation
transport, food-services, lodging, recreation etc
Traveller vs tourist
travellers aren’t necessarily tourists but tourists ARE travellers
The tourist…
travels >80km from home
utilises accommodation
>24hrs <1year
Sumarians/Baylonians input ($)
developed trade 4000BC
invented money and the wheel
founders of travel business
Egypt input (attraction)
developer of the first tourist attraction GIZA
Roman empire (roads)
built roads (150BC)
enables travel
olympic games
Post - roman empire 4th and 5th century (passport)
“dark ages”
travel became dangerous
King Richard III = TRAVEL PERMIT
“Grand tour” 17th and 18th century
educational became pleasure travel
Industrial revolution (began 1830) (travel)
rail, steamships, automobiles, air first paying passengers
% of GDP
9%
how many jobs?
1/11
percentage of service exports
30%
world exports
6%
how many people travel internationally
1.2 billion
revenue from tourists
$36 billion
how many people travel from abroad?
7 million
international arrivals expectations
will increase by 3%/year and 1.8 billion people will travel by by 2030
Classifications of tourists (4)
domestic, international, inbound, outbound
economic importance of tourism
largest service-based industry
sector accounts for: 40-50% GDP in developing and 70-80% in developed
how do we measure economic impact?
visitor arrivals: volume, origin, purpose
currency exchange info, expenditure
Economic impact
not the same a tourist receipts, consider - leakages, direct, indirect and induced effects, displacement and opportunity costs
countries with positive tourist balance sheets
USA, italy, france and australia
countries with negative tourist balance sheets
china, japan, canada, germany, UK
What do tourist satellite accounts measure?
tourism expenditure
GVA and GDP
employment, investment and gov consumption
positives for tourism
economic, new employment, infrastructure etc
negatives for tourism
seasonal employment, pollution, pollution, increased taxes
multiplier concept
how far $1 goes in the economy
direct effect
pay for hotel
indirect effect
hotel pays cleaner
induced effect
cleaner pays for cleaning products
displacement cost
moving people to create infrastructure associated with tourism