Study of Tourism Hospitality and Event
Study of Tourism, Hospitality and Event
Nowadays, with the rapid development of economy, tourism, hospitality and event industries are faced with more opportunities, but more challenges as well, such as the more competitive market and similar industries, personalized customer demands and higher service qualities requirements and so on. Therefore, studying and understanding the three industries, discovering the interrelated nature of them and the way they promote each other will contribute to promoting the better development of them. This article is mainly divided into two sections, the first section is to introduce the theoretical point of view of tourism, hospitality and event. Subsequently, the second section aims at exploring their interrelated nature based on the understanding of those definitions and perspectives.
Because of the complexity of tourism phenomenon and distinct methods of thinking, scholars have different understanding of the essential characteristics of tourism, therefore there is also a big difference in definitions of tourism. According to the most representative 63 definitions in the world, Zhang (2008) summarized five main features of tourism concept, including: first, it is the movement of people, which refers to population mobility that people move from one place to another. Second, travel has one or more motivations. Third, tourism activities require certain infrastructure, marketing system, entertainments and support services for entertainment. Furthermore, tourism is not just consumption pattern of personal leisure or entertainment, but an entire system consisting of source places of tourists, channels and destinations. Finally, tourism is not merely an economic system, it is more of a cultural and social systems. Accordingly, definitions of tourism can be roughly divided into three categories. First, the definition is from the perspective of space and time, which means that a person going outside from his usual living environment and
Nowadays, with the rapid development of economy, tourism, hospitality and event industries are faced with more opportunities, but more challenges as well, such as the more competitive market and similar industries, personalized customer demands and higher service qualities requirements and so on. Therefore, studying and understanding the three industries, discovering the interrelated nature of them and the way they promote each other will contribute to promoting the better development of them. This article is mainly divided into two sections, the first section is to introduce the theoretical point of view of tourism, hospitality and event. Subsequently, the second section aims at exploring their interrelated nature based on the understanding of those definitions and perspectives.
Because of the complexity of tourism phenomenon and distinct methods of thinking, scholars have different understanding of the essential characteristics of tourism, therefore there is also a big difference in definitions of tourism. According to the most representative 63 definitions in the world, Zhang (2008) summarized five main features of tourism concept, including: first, it is the movement of people, which refers to population mobility that people move from one place to another. Second, travel has one or more motivations. Third, tourism activities require certain infrastructure, marketing system, entertainments and support services for entertainment. Furthermore, tourism is not just consumption pattern of personal leisure or entertainment, but an entire system consisting of source places of tourists, channels and destinations. Finally, tourism is not merely an economic system, it is more of a cultural and social systems. Accordingly, definitions of tourism can be roughly divided into three categories. First, the definition is from the perspective of space and time, which means that a person going outside from his usual living environment and