Key Tourism Concepts
"This organization, abbreviated UNWTO, defines tourism as activities of persons traveling to places outside their usual environment for less than a year for leisure, business, or other purposes."
What is the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO)?
This type of tourism focuses on large numbers of tourists visiting popular destinations."
What is mass or traditional tourism?
"This Caribbean-based tourism organization focuses on marketing and promoting Caribbean destinations."
What is the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO)?
Tourism within one’s own country."
What is domestic tourism?
This researcher identified four types of tourists based on their level of familiarity with the culture: the drifter, the explorer, the individual mass tourist, and the organized mass tourist.
Who is Cohen (1972)?
"According to the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO), this term refers to someone who travels to a destination for leisure or business, staying less than a year."
What is a tourist?
This tourism niche emphasizes preserving natural environments and benefiting local communities."
What is eco-tourism?
This international agency plays a key role in setting global tourism standards and policies."
What is the UNWTO?
"Tourism within a specific region, such as the Caribbean."
What is regional tourism?
"This theory divides tourists into allocentrics and psychocentrics based on their preference for adventure or familiarity.
What is Plog's model (1974)?
A person who is invited or welcomed to a place, such as a hotel or home."
What is a guest?
"The principle that emphasizes minimizing environmental and social impact while benefiting future generations."
What is sustainable development?
This global council provides research and advocacy for the travel and tourism sector."
What is the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC)?
"Tourism that involves traveling to a foreign country."
What is international tourism?
"These factors are psychological or physical attractions that draw tourists to a destination."
What are pull factors?
Someone visiting a country or region but may not stay overnight."
What is a visitor?
"The branch of tourism involving specialized, smaller markets such as adventure, cultural, or culinary tourism."
What is niche tourism?
These agencies are responsible for promoting tourism advocacy, developing policies, and managing economic development.
What are tourism organizations and agencies?
"This type of tourism involves travelers coming into a country from abroad."
What is inbound tourism?
"This theory of motivation ranks travel needs from basic survival to self-actualization."
What is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?