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Tourism is the temporary short term movement of people to destinations outside the place that they normally live or work, tourism doesn’t mean a person has to stay at the place, as it could be movement for all purposes, including day trip and excursions. There are three main types of tourism, which are inbound, outbound and domestic.
• Inbound tourism – This is when a resident of a country travels oversea to visit the UK. The main example of this is someone coming in from the USA to visit the UK.
• Outbound tourism – This refers to UK residents taking holidays outside of the UK for less than twelve months. An example of this is when someone from the UK goes to Spain for example on a holiday.
• Domestic tourism – This involves the residents of a …show more content…
Serviced accommodation means a service is provided with an overnight stay, food, and cleaning service. This accommodation would be provided within a hotel, guest houses and B&B’s. An example of a serviced hotel is the Culloden in Belfast this is a hotel which is run by a group known as the Hastings group, whereas there will be other hotels and B&B’s that will be independently ran such as the Curran court in Larne. The bigger hotels which may be part of a group will provide more services such as a gym and/or a swimming pool, however this will make the hotel more expensive. Whereas non – serviced accommodation is when tourists cater, clean and provide for themselves an example of this is in cottages, caravans, camping, holiday centres and second homes e.g. an apartment that you own. An example of a non - serviced accommodation is Ballyness caravan park and this is a park that is privately owned, the services that is included here free Wi-Fi, payphones, and three wildlife ponds to view. In the non – serviced accommodation you have to pay £25 per night for the services and £2 for the awning of the