Tourism Planning
TOURISM DEVELOPMENT PLANNING
TOURISM
Tourism - Comprises the activities of persons traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited country
Tourism refers to the movement of people from one geographical location to another for the purpose of engaging in leisure and/or business acts, and the economic transactions that accompany this. It is essentially a service activity, and involves the flow of capital, finance, goods, knowledge and humans. Tourism has both a production and a consumption component. As a form of production, tourism is multi sectoral and multi faceted, drawing upon the activities of a wide range of actors from a number of economic sectors. As an activity of consumption tourism is distinct in that the consumer has to travel some distance to a destination in order to consume the product. This feature of tourism means it is referred to as an invisible sector. It also means that tourism is the nexus between systems of production and systems of consumption. The tourist product is varied. It consists of both tangible (e.g. flights, hotel accommodation) and intangible (e.g. customer satisfaction or perception) elements. Given its ephemeral nature, the tourist product can be viewed as a highly perishable item (Mathieson and Wall, 1982).
The standard and most widely accepted definition of what constitutes tourism is that utilized by the World Tourism Organization (WTO, Basic References on Tourism Statistics). A tourist is a person who travels to and stays in a place outside his/her usual environment for at least one night and less than one year, and whose primary purpose of travel is not remunerated from within the place visited.
Tourism is defined as the set of activities engaged upon by a tourist. Domestic tourism refers to the movement of residents within their
TOURISM
Tourism - Comprises the activities of persons traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited country
Tourism refers to the movement of people from one geographical location to another for the purpose of engaging in leisure and/or business acts, and the economic transactions that accompany this. It is essentially a service activity, and involves the flow of capital, finance, goods, knowledge and humans. Tourism has both a production and a consumption component. As a form of production, tourism is multi sectoral and multi faceted, drawing upon the activities of a wide range of actors from a number of economic sectors. As an activity of consumption tourism is distinct in that the consumer has to travel some distance to a destination in order to consume the product. This feature of tourism means it is referred to as an invisible sector. It also means that tourism is the nexus between systems of production and systems of consumption. The tourist product is varied. It consists of both tangible (e.g. flights, hotel accommodation) and intangible (e.g. customer satisfaction or perception) elements. Given its ephemeral nature, the tourist product can be viewed as a highly perishable item (Mathieson and Wall, 1982).
The standard and most widely accepted definition of what constitutes tourism is that utilized by the World Tourism Organization (WTO, Basic References on Tourism Statistics). A tourist is a person who travels to and stays in a place outside his/her usual environment for at least one night and less than one year, and whose primary purpose of travel is not remunerated from within the place visited.
Tourism is defined as the set of activities engaged upon by a tourist. Domestic tourism refers to the movement of residents within their