Key Words

Question 1

Visitors

Answer 1

Any person visiting a country other than in which is a usual place of residence for less than a year

Question 2

Tourist

Answer 2

A visitor who spends at least a night in the country visited

Question 3

Excursion

Answer 3

A trip by a group of people for leisure or educational purposes

Question 4

Domestic

Answer 4

People travelling and taking holidays within their own country

Question 5

Inbound

Answer 5

Overseas tourists visiting the UK

Question 6

Outbound

Answer 6

U.K. Residents taking holidays outside the UK

Question 7

Short breaks

Answer 7

Weekend or mid-week break for 3 nights or less

Question 8

Day visitor

Answer 8

A traveler or tourist who does not stay overnight in the place visited

Question 9

Serviced accommodation

Answer 9

When a service is provided along with an overnight stay. Meals and housekeeping staff are also provided

Question 10

Non-serviced accommodation

Answer 10

When no service is provided with your accommodation

Question 11

Half board

Answer 11

This is when people go to a serviced accommodation and they get their breakfast and evening meals within the package

Question 12

Full board

Answer 12

This package includes all you daily meals, breakfast, lunch and evening meal and it also includes drinks

Question 13

Direct employment

Answer 13

People who would not have a job without the existence of the industry e.g hotel managers

Question 14

Indirect employment

Answer 14

People who would have a job without the travel industry but are still benefitting from it e.g. Taxi drivers

Question 15

Co-operative

Answer 15

Commercial organisation- shareholders must be either a customer or employee

Question 16

Partnership

Answer 16

Commercial organisation- a company owned by 2-20 people

Question 17

Public sector travel organisation

Answer 17

Non-commercial organisation- trace, and tourism facilities and service provided by the state

Question 18

Public sector

Answer 18

Something which is fully owned by the government

Question 19

Private sector

Answer 19

Something owned by shareholders or private individual designed to make a profit

Question 20

Voluntary sector

Answer 20

Something run by people who are unpaid for their services

Question 21

Seasonality

Answer 21

Tourism demand fluctuating over the course of the year

Question 22

Perishability

Answer 22

The characteristic of something being perishable. In tourism the term is used to describe, for example, a particular hotel room on a specific flight: they cannot be stored and sold later, so they are perishable

Question 23

Intangibility

Answer 23

The characteristic of not being touchable: a good is tangible whereas a service is intangible

Question 24

Disposable income

Answer 24

The household income left after tax, housing and the basics have been paid

Question 25

Legislation

Answer 25

Acts of Parliament passed by central government

Question 26

Stakeholder

Answer 26

An interested party in a non-commercial organisation

Question 27

Boutique hotel

Answer 27

A stylish small hotel typically located in a fashionable urban location