MACRO UNIT 1 Flashcards
are crucial in various settings like hotels, airports, cruise ships, trains, shopping malls, fast service restaurants, taverns, bars, kiosks, supermarkets, food stalls, carts, and trucks.
The Food and Bevarage Component
offer a variety of accommodations, including budget motels, luxury hotels, resorts, inns, lodges, ski lodges, and casino hotels, showcasing traditional customs and cultural traditions.
The Lodging Component
originating from traditional hosts’ duties, includes food, beverages, lodging, storytelling, games, and jugglers. Today, it includes recreational activities like golf, tennis, and concerts.
Recreation and Entertainment Component
encompass businesses offering primary services to travelers, including food, lodging, recreation, entertainment, transportation, travel agencies, and tour operators.
Travel and Tourism Component
enables people to move from one
place to another, using various methods like
automobiles, RVs, buses, trains, ships, and airplanes.
Transportation
are vital in the tourism and hospitality industry, selling travel packages and negotiating lower prices through high-
volume purchases with hotels and airlines.
Travel Agencies and Tour Operators
is a multidimensional phenomenon,
categorized by Berne University professors
Hunziker and Krapf, Britain’s Tourism
Society, and Cardiff Tourism Society,
referring to temporary movement to
destinations outside home environments.
Tourism
5 Main Characteristics of Tourism (Burkart & Medlik, 1997)
Complexity
Dynamic Journey and Static Stay
Short-term, Temporary Movement to Destination
Focused on non-paid work purposes
excluding business or vocational reasons
derived from the Latin word “hospitare”, refers to a host who prepares to meet a guest’s basic
needs, such as food, beverages, lodging, or shelter, and is also referred to as a hospital, hospice, or hostel.
Hospitality
are those visiting
a country for at least 24 hours, while the UN Conference
on International Travel and Tourism in 1963 expanded to
include tourists, temporary visitors, and excursionists.
Tourist
Nature of a Tour
Domestic Tourism
International Tourism
Package Tour
Independent Tour
Travels within national boundaries,
often easier due to lack of language, currency, or
documentation barriers.
Domestic Tourism
Travels outside the nation, requiring
stricter documentation and language and currency barriers.
International Tourism
An all-inclusive package, organized by tour
operators, usually at a cheaper price.
Package Tour
Tourists purchase facilities separately,
either through reservations or travel agents.
Independent Tour
