Identify and Discuss the Relative Strengths and Weaknesses of the Principal Formal Definition(S) of the Industry Sector Central to Your Programme of Study
Identify and discuss the relative strengths and weaknesses of the principal formal definition(s) of the industry sector central to your programme of study
This assignment will concentrate on the title: ‘Identify and discuss the relative strengths and weaknesses of the principal formal definition(s) of the industry sector central to your programme of study.’ It is going to start off with a definition of tourism by Herman von Schullard in 1910 which says: tourism is ‘the sum total of operations, mainly of economic nature, which directly relate to the entry, stay and movement of foreigners inside and outside a certain country, city or region’. Afterwards it is going to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this definition by outlining the development of the term tourism with help of different definitions from different times, using the definition of a committee of statistical experts at the League of Nations in 1937, of Hunziker and Krapf in 1941, of the International Union of Official Travel Organisations (IUOTO) in 1968, of the Tourism Society of England in 1976 and from the International Conference on Leisure-Recreation-Tourism in Cardiff in 1981.
To begin with working on the exercise mentioned in the headline one should at first understand which aspects are important in a definition of tourism and where there are still problems of defining tourism. There are various criteria, such as distance travelled; how far the tourist has to travel from home to be classified as a tourist. The purpose of the trip; whether the tourist is travelling on business, to visit some friends or relatives or simply to spend his leisure time at a different destination to go sightseeing or just to relax somewhere other than his own home. And the last criterion is the length of stay; there are two types of tourists distinguished by the length of stay. Someone staying for less than a day is an excursionist and someone staying longer than a day is classified as a
This assignment will concentrate on the title: ‘Identify and discuss the relative strengths and weaknesses of the principal formal definition(s) of the industry sector central to your programme of study.’ It is going to start off with a definition of tourism by Herman von Schullard in 1910 which says: tourism is ‘the sum total of operations, mainly of economic nature, which directly relate to the entry, stay and movement of foreigners inside and outside a certain country, city or region’. Afterwards it is going to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this definition by outlining the development of the term tourism with help of different definitions from different times, using the definition of a committee of statistical experts at the League of Nations in 1937, of Hunziker and Krapf in 1941, of the International Union of Official Travel Organisations (IUOTO) in 1968, of the Tourism Society of England in 1976 and from the International Conference on Leisure-Recreation-Tourism in Cardiff in 1981.
To begin with working on the exercise mentioned in the headline one should at first understand which aspects are important in a definition of tourism and where there are still problems of defining tourism. There are various criteria, such as distance travelled; how far the tourist has to travel from home to be classified as a tourist. The purpose of the trip; whether the tourist is travelling on business, to visit some friends or relatives or simply to spend his leisure time at a different destination to go sightseeing or just to relax somewhere other than his own home. And the last criterion is the length of stay; there are two types of tourists distinguished by the length of stay. Someone staying for less than a day is an excursionist and someone staying longer than a day is classified as a