Tourism Indroduction
Tourism is one of the world's fastest growing industries as well as the major source of foreign exchange earning and employment for many developing countries.
World tourism demand continues to exceed expectations, showing resilience against extraneous factors. According to the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, released (November 2006):
World tourism demand continues to exceed expectations, showing resilience against extraneous factors. According to the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, released (November 2006):
- In the first eight months of 2006 international tourist arrivals totalled 578 million worldwide (+4.5%), up from 553 million in the same period of 2005, a year which saw an all-time record of 806 million people travelling internationally.
- Growth is expected to continue in 2007 at a pace of around 4% worldwide.
What defines tourism
The concept of tourism refers to the broad framework that identifies tourism’s essential characteristics and distinguishes tourism from similar, often related but different phenomena.
The two terms ‘travel’ and ‘tourism’ can be used in isolation or together to describe three concepts:
Devised by WTO was endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission in 1993 following an International Government Conference held in Ottawa, Canada in 1991.
Before people can experience tourism they usually need at least:
The two terms ‘travel’ and ‘tourism’ can be used in isolation or together to describe three concepts:
- The movement of people
- A sector of the economy or an industry
- A brad system of interacting relationships of people, their needs to travel outside their communities and services that attempt to respond to these needs by supplying products
- International Tourism: Consists of inbound tourism, visits to a country by non-residents, and outbound tourism, residents of a country visiting another country
- Internal Tourism: Residents of a country visiting their own country
- Domestic Tourism: Internal tourism plus inbound tourism (the tourism market of accommodation facilities and attractions within a country)
- National Tourism: Internal tourism plus outbound tourism (the resident tourism market for travel agents and airlines.
Devised by WTO was endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission in 1993 following an International Government Conference held in Ottawa, Canada in 1991.
Before people can experience tourism they usually need at least:
- disposable income, ie. money to spend on non-essentials
- leisure time
- tourism infrastructure, such as transport and accommodation.
- Other factors such as health and motivation to travel are also important.