PRELIMS Flashcards
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Refers to the people, activities, and organizations involved in providing services for people on holiday,
for example hotels,restaurants, and tour guides.
Tourism industry
Refers to travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.
Tourism
Refers to the relationship between a guest and a host,wherein the host receives the guest with goodwill, including the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers.
Hospitality
Refers to the combination of the accommodation and food and beverage groupings, collectively making up the largest segment of the industry.
Hospitality Industry
It has been internationally recognized as a symbol of hospitality and a sign of friendliness, warmth, cheer, graciousness, and conviviality.
Pineapple
these are the largest and fastest- growing industry groupings in the world.
Hospitality and Tourism
the employee is in direct contact with the guest
front of the house
performing duties behind the scenes
back of the house
The main componentsof the hospitality industry
Food and Beverages Service, Accommodations and Lodging,Recreation and Entertainment,Travel and Services, Conventions and Events Management, and Clubs.
This sphere is also called foodservice or catering industry. It consists of businesses, institutions, and companies that prepare food for customers.
Food and Beverages Service
is also known as accommodation. This term means providing a place to stay for one or more nights.
Accommodations and Lodging
supports activities that people do for rest, relaxation, and enjoyment. Entertainment, attractions, spectator sports, and participatory sports are all various types of recreation sphere.
Recreation and Entertainment
deals with moving people from place to place and providing services that support trips and vacations.
Travel and Services
is the application of project management to the creation and development of large-scale events such as festivals, conferences, ceremonies, weddings, formal parties, concerts, or conventions.
Conventions and Events Management
offers a wide variety of recreational activities, services and facilities to their members or families
Clubs
an old French word meaning “to provide care/ shelter for travelers.”
hospice
The most famous hospice
Hospice de Beaune in the Burgundy region of France, also called as the Hotel Dieu or the House of God
was an Italian merchant, explorer, and writer, born in the Republic of Venice
Marco Polo
the Holy Roman Emperor, during the year 800, established rest houses for pilgrims, with the sole purpose of protecting the pilgrims and to provide hospitality for them on their routes.
Charlemagne
the favored method of transportation.
stagecoach
(the father of modern restaurant) sold soups at his all- night tavern at Rue Bailleul. He called his soup restorantes (restoratives), which is the origin of the word “restaurant”.
M. Boulanger
the second president of the United States, owned and managed his own tavern between 1783 and 1789
John Adams
(1784) the third president of the United States; acquired a taste of French Cuisine. He persuaded a French Chef to come to the white house to lend his expertise.
Thomas Jefferson
(1856) published La Cuisine Classique and other volumes of detailing numerous dishes and their sauces.
Antoine Careme
