Tourism sectors Flashcards
Natural attraction can be?
Lakes, rivers, mountains, coastal features, islands, waterfalls, canyon/gorges, and caves.
What are the available tourist facilities are available at natural attractions?
Information center, car parks and access for disabled visitors, refreshment facilities, souvenir shop, toilet facilities, guided tour and walks, and view points.
What are the three types of attractions?
Natural Attraction
Purpose-built attraction
Built Attraction
These are places which have been built specifically to attract tourists.
Purpose-built attractions
The second group of ——— are those which have become attractions over time. These attractions were never built as tourist attractions.
Built attractions.
Examples of purpose-built attractions.
Theme parks, amusement parks, aquariums, etc.
Examples of built attractions.
Castles, churches, cathedrals, and some other industrial buildings.
What are the two types of guiding and information services?
Tourist information center and tour guides or directors.
———— provide accurate information on things to see and do and where to stay. make bookings for travel, entertainment, visitor attractions and accommodation.
Tourist information center
What are the products/services that a tourist information center might provide?
Ideas
-Book Accommodations
-Maps
-Transport
-Oyster Cards
-They speak multiple of languages
-Theatre Tickets
A person employed to show tourists around places of interest.
Tour Guide
What are the types of accommodation providers?
Hotels, Serviced and non-serviced
Is a type of furnished accommodation which is available for a short or long term stay. Services include housekeeping, 24 hour customer care and increased security measures.
Serviced
Is a short or long stay accommodation which may be privately owned and let often through a website such as Airbnb. These apartments are not serviced, so no security, no housekeeping and etc.
Non-serviced
What are the types of board in accommodation providers?
B&B - Bed and breakfast
HB - Half board
FB - Full board
AI - All inclusive
RO - Room only
What includes to a half board?
Breakfast and dinner normally
What includes to a full board?
Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
What includes to a all inclusive board?
All services of full board plus any others specified in each case.
They construct their product by combining the transport and the accommodation. They buy seats on planes and hotel rooms. They calculate the price of the trip (travel and stay included) by adding in their profit and the price of the brochure which is then put together so that they can offer the trip to agencies or directly through their own network/website.
Tour operator
——– increases your protection to travelling abroad will be safer.
Package travel directive
What are the some of the protection that the package travel directive can give?
Refund
Insurance
Termination
Repatriation
The return of someone to their own country.
Repatriation
What can tour operators can be?
Outbound
Mass Market
Inbound
Specialist
Domestic
They buy holidays, flights, hotels, foreign money, travel insurance, attraction tickets, train tickets, car hire. They also sell the packages
Travel agent