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What is Tourism?
• Tourism is the processes, activities, and
outcomes arising from the relationships and the
interaction among tourists, tourism supplies,
host governments, host communities, and
surrounding environments that are involved in
the attracting and hosting of visitors.
What is Tourism? “Cont.”
• Tourism is a composite of activities, services,
and industries that deliver a travel experience:
transportation, accommodations, eating and
drinking establishments, shops,
entertainment, activity facilities, and other
hospitality services available for individuals or
groups that are travelling away from home.
Four different perspectives of tourism:
• The tourist (experiences and satisfactions) • The business providing tourist goods and
services (profits)
• The government of the host community or area (wealth factor)
• The host community (employment factor)
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Components of Tourism and Tourism
Management:
• The Tourist
• Natural Resources and Environment
• The Built Environment
• Operating Sectors of the Tourism Industry
• Spirit of Hospitality
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Components of Tourism and Tourism
Management (Continued)
• Planning, Development, Promotion, and Catalyst
Organizations
• The Importance of Integrated/Collaborative
Planning and Development:
• Careers in Tourism
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Benefits of Tourism
1. Provides employment opportunities, both
skilled and unskilled, because it is a labor-
intensive industry
2. Generates a supply of needed foreign
exchange
3. Increases incomes
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Benefits of Tourism (Continued)
4. Creates increased gross national product
5. Can be built on existing infrastructure
6. Develops an infrastructure that will also help
stimulate local commerce and industry
7. Can be developed with local products and
resources
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Benefits of Tourism (Continued)
8. Helps to diversify the economy
9. Tends to be one of the most compatible economic
development activities available to an area,
complementing other economic activities
10.Spreads development
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Benefits of Tourism (Continued)
11.Has a high multiplier impact
12.Increases governmental revenues
13.Broadens educational and cultural horizons
and improves feelings of self-worth.
14.Has a high multiplier impact
15.Increases governmental revenues
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Benefits of Tourism (Continued)
16.Broadens educational and cultural horizons
and improves feelings of self-worth.
17.Improves the quality of life related to a higher
level of income and improved standards of
living
18.Reinforces preservation of heritage and
tradition
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Benefits of Tourism (Continued)
19. Justifies environmental protection and improvement
20. Provides employment for artists, musicians, and other
performing artists because of visitor interest in local
culture, thereby enhancing the cultural heritage
21. Provides tourist and recreational facilities that may be
used by a local population
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Benefits of Tourism (Continued)
22.Breaks down language barriers, socio-cultural
barriers, class barriers, racial barriers, political
barriers, and religious barriers
23.Creates a favorable worldwide image for a
destination
24.Promotes a global community
25.Promotes international understanding and peace
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Negative Aspects of Tourism
1. Develops excess demand for resources
2. Creates the difficulties of seasonality
3. Causes inflation
4. Can result in unbalanced economic development
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Negative Aspects of Tourism (Continued)
5. Creates social problems
6. Degrades the natural physical environment and
creates pollution
7. Degrades the cultural environment
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Negative Aspects of Tourism (Continued)
8. Increases the incidence of crime, prostitution, and
gambling
9. Increases vulnerability to economic and political
changes
10.Threatens family structure
11.Commercializes culture, religion, and the arts
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Negative Aspects of Tourism (Continued)
12.Creates misunderstanding
13.Creates conflicts in the host society
14.Contributes to disease, economic fluctuation,
and transportation problems