Tourism Basics
This term describes the short-term movement of people to destinations outside where they normally live and work.
Tourism
This type of tourism involves travelling to undisturbed natural areas to admire scenery, plants, and animal life.
Eco-tourism
This term refers to the optimal use of natural, cultural, social, and financial resources for national development on an equitable and self-sustaining basis.
Sustainable Tourism
This tax is added to a hotel bill and paid by the guest on behalf of the government.
Room tax
This common myth incorrectly assumes all tourists are white, wealthy, and American.
It is a myth — tourists can be of any nationality, color, and income level.
A tourist must stay at a destination for at least this long to be classified as a tourist.
24 hours (overnight)
The Olympic Games, World Cup of Football, and the Kentucky Derby are examples of this sports tourism category.
Sports-tourism events
These are the three forms of sustainable tourism mentioned in the notes.
Community-based/Rural Tourism, Eco-tourism/Green Tourism, and Cultural Heritage Tourism
The economic concept where tourism spending circulates through the economy and creates additional income is called this.
The Multiplier Effect
This myth confuses working in hospitality with slavery or colonialism, harming the industry through poor service.
Confusing service with servility or servitude
This type of tourist travels within their own country, spending at least one night away from home.
Domestic tourist
This type of tourism deals with the way people learn from each other's history, traditions, heritage, language, and ethnicity.
Cultural Heritage Tourism
The maximum use that can be made of a tourism site without causing damage to its resources or the visitor experience is called this.
Carrying Capacity
When tourism income leaves a country to pay for imports or foreign-owned services, it is called this.
Economic Leakage
According to the facts, the best form of advertising for a destination is still this.
Word of mouth
A visitor from Grenada travelling to Puerto Rico would be classified as this type of tourist.
Regional tourist
Cruising the oceans aboard a luxury liner with hotel-like amenities describes this type of tourism.
Cruise Tourism
These are the three major stakeholders (partners) in sustainable tourism.
The Tourism Industry, Environment Supporters, and the Community / Local Authorities
Caribbean countries have largely shifted from traditional exports like sugar and bananas to this as their largest foreign exchange earner.
Tourism
Contrary to the myth that beaches belong to hotels, most Caribbean countries have this policy regarding beach access.
Legally, beaches don't belong to any one person or company; access policies vary by country.
A person travelling from the Virgin Islands to Paris would be classified as this type of tourist.
International Tourist
When local communities identify, develop, and promote their own resources for the benefit of the community, this form of tourism results.
Community Tourism
These three elements are always present in sustainable tourism forms: 1. community involvement, 2. environmental protection, and this third element.
Cultural Preservation
This form of tax, applied as a percentage of goods and services with an average of 15% in the Caribbean, includes VAT and GCT.
Sales tax
These harmful outcomes frequently result from tourism myths, including poor service and unwelcoming behavior toward visitors.
Problems such as poor service, high prices, harassment of tourists, and an unwelcoming social environment.