Tourism
Describe Tourism
Providing products and services such as transport accommodation and activities to customers (Tourist).
Explain Accomodation
A place people can stay, sleep,
Define Short-Haul
typically lasting less than three hours
What type of haul would a traveler have traveling from Orlando to Atlanta?
Short-Haul
Define Customer Service:
Meeting the needs and wants of customers by providing them with products and services
Describe Domestic Tourism:
When tourists visit destinations in their home country or the country they live in. (EXAMPLE; A TRIP FROM FLORIDA TO CALIFORNIA IS CONSIDERED DOMESTIC, BECAUSE IS STAYS WITHIN THE USA)
Explain, a place where ecotourism travelers might want to stay? Explain Eco-lodges?
Camping, Ecologdes, or somewhere that has a fun outdoors and is in natural area.
The definiton of Ecotourism is: Visiting a place or destination without causing damage
Eco-lodges: Small-scale forms of accommodation that are environmentally sustainable, often found in rural destinations.
Describe Outbound Tourism:
WHEN PEOPLE TRAVEL AWAY FROM THEIR COUNTRY. (A TRIP FROM FLORIDA TO COLOMBIA IS ONE EXAMPLE OF OUTBOUND TRAVEL).
Define Social Media:
Websites and apps for sharing photos and information
Unpackaged Tourism:
Independent travel where different elements or components of the trip are booked seperately by different providers.
Tell us a place where bussiness travelers would want to stay?
Hotel, motel, guest houses, somewhere where theyre not gonna be a long time, just to sleep.
Describe Inbound Tourism:
WHEN TOURISTS TRAVEL INTO A COUNTRY.
Define Market:
The group of buyers or consumers for a particular good or service. in this context the word “tourism market” refers to people who are likely to buy tourism products or services.
Describe Mass Tourism:
When many tourists travel to popular holiday destinations.
Explain what would a well-being tourism traveler want as some accodations?
Hotels with Spas and beaches or in a natural resort with yoga and a lot of greenery
Define Domestic Tourism
WHEN TOURISTS VISIT DESTINATIONS IN THEIR HOME COUNTRY (EXAMPLE; A TRIP FROM FLORIDA TO CALIFORNIA IS CONSIDERED
DOMESTIC, BECAUSE IS STAYS WITHIN THE USA)
Define Components:
Individual parts of the travel stay such as accommodation, transportation and meal plans.
Define Tour Operators:
A travel and tourism business that organizes tour products for customers. Packaged tourism is one example of it.
Describe Packaged Tourism:
Tourist travel and visits organized by a travel and tourism bussiness (agency). For example, a tour operator combines seperate travel and tourism components suck as transport and accomadation to make a single package product, which is sold to customers at a single price.
Tell us where would a adventurous tourist might like to stay?
ski resorts, cabins, and lodges
Define Long-Haul
lasting between three and six hours or more
Define Pilgrimage:
A visit to a place considered to be special to show respect.