session 1 - tourism overview

8/9/2019 Session 1 - Tourism Overview

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TOURISMOVERVIEWSession 1

Lecturer: Ms Eena Morada

Objectives

To review tourism concepts

To equip the students with informationabout the tourism components andsystem

To explore the careers in tourism

Do you want to be a flight attendant?Why are you taking BS Tourism Management?

With your Second Semester in taking BS TSM

Mgt, are you convinced so far that you did the

right choice?

Do you think you did the right choice?

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.


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ourism Phenomenon:

omponents of Tourism and Tourism Management

Disciplinary Inputs to the Field of Tourism

S o c i o l o g y o f

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Tourism

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Roles of Public and Private Sector inTourism Development

• Public sector

~ make the area desirable for the private sector toinvest

~ Constructing Workable Infrastructures

~ Providing Services

~ Promoting and Marketing the Region

~ Providing Incentives

•Private sector

~ tourism planning decisions on what the tourists‘want’ and ‘will buy’

~ investment objectives

Career Paths within Tourism Industry

• Airlines

• Bus Companies

• Cruise Companies

• Railroads

• Rental Car Companies

• Hotel, Motels, andResorts

• Travel Agencies

• Tour Companies

• Food Service

• Tourism Education

• Tourism Research

• Travel Communications

• Recreation and Leisure

• Attractions

• Tourist Offices andInformation Centers

• Convention and VisitorBureaus

• Meeting Planners

Special Forms of Tourism

• Adventure tourism: tourism involving travel in rugged

regions, or adventurous sports such as mountaineeringand hiking (tramping).

• Agritourism: farm based tourism, helping to supportthe local agricultural economy.

• Ancestry tourism: (also known as genealogy tourism) isthe travel with the aim of tracing one's ancestry,visiting the birth places of these ancestors andsometimes getting to know distant family.

• Armchair tourism and virtual tourism: not travelingphysically, but exploring the world through internet,books, TV, etc.

• Audio tourism: includes audio walking tours and otheraudio guided forms of tourism including museum audioguides and audio travel books.


• Backpacker Tourism is a term used to denote a form

of low-cost independent international travel,differentiating it from other forms of tourismnotably by the following typical attributes: minimalbudget use, longer duration traveling, use of publictransport and multiple destinations/countries. Theorigin of the name comes from the backpacks thatbudget travelers generally carry in the interests ofmobility and flexibility.

• Cultural tourism: includes urban tourism, visitinghistorical or interesting cities, and experiencing theircultural heritages. This type of tourism may alsoinclude specialized cultural experiences, such as artmuseum tourism where the tourist visits many artmuseums during the tour, or opera tourism wherethe tourist sees many operas or concerts during thetour.


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• Coastal Tourism involves tourist products located alongCoastal Environments - due to the limited extent ofcoastal environments they often are amongst the firstplaces to experience tourist congestion for a region.

• Dark tourism: is the travel to sites associated with deathand suffering. The first tourist agency to specialise in thiskind of tourism started with trips to Lakehurst, NewJersey, the scene of the Hindenburg airship disaster.

• Disaster tourism: traveling to a disaster scene notprimarily for helping, but because it is interesting to see.It can be a problem if it hinders rescue, relief and repairwork.

• Drug tourism: travel to a country to obtain or consumedrugs, either legally or illegally.

• Ecotourism: sustainable tourism which has minimal impacton the environment, such as safaris (Kenya), Rainforests(Belize) and hiking (Lapland), or national parks.


• Educational tourism: may involve traveling to aneducation institution, a wooded retreat or someother destination in order to take personal-interest

classes, such as cooking classes with a famous chef orcrafts classes.

• Extreme tourism: tourism associated with high risk.

• Gambling tourism, e.g. to Atlantic City, Las Vegas,Palm Springs, California, Macau or Monte Carlo forthe purpose of gambling at the casinos there.

• Garden tourism visiting botanical gardens famousplaces in the history of gardening, such as Versaillesand the Taj Mahal.


• Heritage tourism: visiting historical (Rome,St.Petersburg, Athens, Cracow) or industrial sites, suchas old canals, railways, battlegrounds, etc.

• Health tourism: usually to escape from cities orrelieve stress, perhaps for some 'fun in the sun', etc.Often to Sanatoriums or "health spas".

• Hobby tourism: tourism alone or with groups toparticipate in hobby interests, to meet others withsimilar interests, or to experience somethingpertinent to the hobby. Examples might be garden

tours, amateur radio DX-peditions, or square dancecruises.


• Medical tourism, e.g.:

o for what is illegal in one's own country, such asabortion or euthanasia

o for advanced care that is not available in one's owncountry

o in the case that there are long waiting lists in one'sown country

o for use of free or cheap health care organisations

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Mystical tourism: Tourism for people that believe feelenergy and travel to places to meditate, yoga, specialevents, ceremonies, mystical rituals.


• Pop-culture tourism: tourism by those that visit a particula

location after reading about it or seeing it in a film.• Perpetual tourism: individuals always on vacation; some of

them, for tax purposes, to avoid being resident in anycountry.

• Pilgrimage Tourism: pilgrimages to ancient holy places (Romeand Santiago de Compostela for Catholics, temples andstupas of Nepal for the Hindus and Buddhist, Mount Athosor Painted churches of northern Moldavia for theOrthodox), religious sites such as mosques, shrines, etc.

• Sex tourism: traveling solely for the purpose of sexualactivity, usually with prostitutes

• Shopping tourism promoting shopping festivals as touristdrawcards such as the Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong and theGold Coast.


• Sport travel: skiing, golf and scuba diving are popular

ways to spend a vacation. This could also includetraveling to a major international sporting event suchas the FIFA World Cup or following a tour such as theAshes or British and Irish Lions.

• Space tourism: traveling in outer space or onspaceships.

• Wine tourism, the visiting of growing regions, vineyardswineries, tasting rooms, wine festivals, and similarplaces or events for the purpose of consuming orpurchasing wine


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Recently developed tourism niches

• Doom Tourism: traveling to places that areenvironmentally or otherwise threatened

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Pro-poor tourism: seeks to help the poorest people indeveloping countries, has been receiving increasingattention by those involved in development.

• Slum tourism: type of tourism that involves visitingimpoverished areas

• Bookstore Tourism is a grassroots effort to supportindependent bookstores by promoting them as a traveldestination.

• Gay tourism LGBT Tourism) is tourism that appealsto people attracted to alternate lifestyles and theirfriends.

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