Tourism overview Flashcards
Is travel beyond one’s general home area for reason’s related to work.
Business travel
Categories of travel
Leisure travel
Business travel
A person employed by a company to arrange travel for its emplyees
Corporate travel manager
Is one in which several travel components are bundled together and sold as one product
Package tour
Is the temporary, short term movement of the people to destinations outside the places whey they normally live or work and their activities during the stay at the destination.
It includes movements for all purposes.
Tourism
For which the transportation, sightseeing, meals, lodging, and the services if a tour manager are all pre-arranged
Escorted tour
Important points
- The activities must be done outside the one’s usual environment, or the place where one lives or works.
- The stay must be temporary. TOURISM IN NOT IMMIGRATION.
- It should not be connected to an activity paid in the destination. Otherwise the person becomes a worker.
A professional who analyzes a travelers needs and then prices, recommends, arranges, and sells one or more component of that persons trip
Travel agent
Is going from one place to another- and doing when arriving there- for reasons not associated with everyday life
Travel
This include theme and amusement parks, entertainment businesses,meeting, sports, convention venues, attractions and cruise companies.
Hospitality
Is the travel to or stay in a place outside one’s usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise remunerated from within the place visited
Tourism
In which many of the travel components are pre arranged but the buyer travels independently of a group or a tour manager
Independent tour
Where the cruise fare include transportation, meals, stateroom, etc.
Cruises
Is usually accepted as encompassing the lodging and food services industries.
Hospitality industry
Which includes lodging, food, entertainment, and many activities in one price
All inclusive resorts