THE MEANING AND IMPORTANCE OF TOURISM Flashcards
the sum of the phenomena
Tourism
is the temporary short-term movement of
people to destinations outside the places where they
normally live and work and their activities during
their stay at these destination in Britain definition
Tourism
may be defined in
terms of particular activities selected by choice
and undertaken outside the home environment by the Tourism
Society in Cardiff
Tourism
is a pleasure activity in which money
earned in one’s abode is spent in places visited
Tourism
Tourism represents?
A particular form of leisure and a particular from of recreational
is a person who visits a country other than that in which he usually resides for a period of least 24 hours
Tourist
two classes of visitors
Tourist and excursionist
temporary visitors staying at least 24 hours, whose
purpose could be classified as:
Tourist
temporary visitors staying
less than 24 hours in the destination visited
and not making overnight stay, including cruise
travellers, but excluding travellers in transit.
Excursionist
Four basic elements
Distance, length of stay at the destination, residence of the traveler, purpose of travel
the difference between local
travel or travelling within a person’s
home community and non- local travel
or travelling away from home. A measure that has been used to
distinguish travel away from home is
the distance travelled on a trip.
Distance
Tourists are temporary visitor who do
not stay overnight in the country that
they visit.
Length of stay at the destination
For business and research purposes, it
is important to know where people live.
Residence of the traveler
Purpose of travel
1.Visiting friends and relatives;
2.Conventions, seminars, and meetings;
3.Business;
4.Outdoor recreational- hunting, fishing, boating, and camping;
5.Entertainment- sightseeing, theatres, sports;
6.Personal- family, medical, funeral, wedding; and
7.Others.
