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Page 2: Welcome to Travel & Tourism Holli Howard, 2010. 3 Main Categories of Travelers Business Traveler Leisure Traveler International Traveler

3 Main Categories of Travelers

• Business Traveler

• Leisure Traveler

• International Traveler

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What Motivates People to Travel?

• Attractions

• Business

• Education

• Entertainment

• Family Occasions

• Rest and Relaxation

• Social and Psychological

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Education

• Business seminars• Historic Sites

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Entertainment

• Adventure-soft and hard

• Fun-theme parks• Gaming• Shopping• Sports Events• Soft adventure• Hard adventure

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Family Occasions

• Reunions• Deaths• Weddings• Graduations• Significant Family

Events

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Social and Psychological

• Curiosity• Keep up with friends

and neighbors• Compete with the

Jones

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Rest and Relaxation

• Resorts on land and sea

• Spas• Health retreats

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What do we need when we travel?

• Destination infrastructure

• Food and shelter

• Information

• Transportation

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Who and What meets these needs?

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THE U.S. TRAVEL AND TOURISM INDUSTRY IS...• ... ONE OF AMERICA’S LARGEST

SERVICE EXPORTS!• $93.3 billion* spent by international visitors

in the U.S. and the…• $89.3 billion ** spent outside the U.S. by

domestic travelers creates…• $4.0 billion in BALANCE OF TRADE

SURPLUS for the U.S. Source: Travel Industry Association of America (TIA), U.S. Dept. of Commerce

Office of Travel and Tourism Industries, World Tourism Organization.

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THE U.S. TRAVEL AND TOURISM INDUSTRY IS...

... ONE OF AMERICA’S LARGEST EMPLOYERS!

• $163 billion direct travel-generated PAYROLL. • 7.3 million direct travel-generated JOBS.• One of every eight U.S. non-farm jobs is directly

and indirectly created by travel and tourism.• Total non-farm U.S. employment is 131.4 million

people.

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THE U.S. TRAVEL AND TOURISM INDUSTRY IS...• ... ONE OF AMERICA’S LARGEST RETAIL SALES

INDUSTRIES! • $599.2 billion direct TRAVEL EXPENDITURES including

international travelers. • $99.4 billion TAX REVENUE directly generated for local,

state, and federal governments• Each U.S. household would pay $923 MORE IN TAXES

without the tax revenue directly generated by the travel and tourism industry.

• Direct spending by resident and international travelers in the U.S. averaged $1.6 billion a day, $68 million an hour, $1.1 million a minute, and $19 thousand a second

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Did You Know….

• that approximately 2.6 million hotels rooms are sold everyday in the United States. That is enough rooms to lodge every person living in San Francisco, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Miami, and Denver combined.

• that the Travel and Tourism industry is one of the country's largest employers with 7.3 million direct travel-generated jobs? You could fill the Orange Bowl stadium a hundred times over with people directly employed in the industry.

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Did You Know….• that each U.S. household would pay $923 more

taxes without the tax revenue generated by the Travel and Tourism Industry? $923 will buy two months worth of groceries for a family of four, will fill the average car with gas 35 times or will pay for a family beach vacation.

• that Travel and Tourism is a $1.3 trillion industry in the United States? If one dollar bill equaled a second of time, then $1.3 trillion would equal over 41,000 years.

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Did You Know….• that Travel and Tourism generates $100 billion in

tax revenue for local, state, and federal governments? If you place 100 billion dollar bills end-to-end, they would circle the world 397 times.