History
Established trade routes to distant locations throughout the Far East.
What is Shang Dynasty?
The global headquarters of the UNT.
What is Madrid, Spain?
Motivated by unstructured travel, cultural immersion, and off-the-beaten-path experiences.
The leading global organization representing the private sector of the travel and tourism industry, known for its economic research, global summits, and advocacy for sustainable tourism growth.
What is The World Travel & Tourism Council?
Those who have combined business and leisure travel together.
What is bleisure travel?
Known to develop large sailing fleets for travel and trade throughout their empire.
Who are the Phoenicians?
Ten articles written as a roadmap for tourism development and behavior.
What is the Global Code of Ethics?
Motivated by packaged tours, structured travel plans, and brand name hotels.
What is Psychocentric?
The global headquarters of the WTTC.
What is London, United Kingdom?
Someone who visits a nearby city for the day and returns home.
What is an Excursionist?
Traveled throughout the Far East to heighten interest in travel and trade.
What is Marco Polo?
To facilitate the understanding of the principles of the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism by tourists, this served as a more user-friendly text and recommendations relevant to ensuring safe and secure travel.
What are Tips for a Responsible Traveler?
A leading tourism psychologist who developed a model inspired by Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
Who is Pearce?
Sustainability, social impact and economic impact research (EIR).
What are the key initiatives of WTTC?
Tourism that involves learning about a country's culture and history, by visiting museums, cultural heritage sites and other signature attractions.
What is Cultural Tourism?
Made travel a status symbol for wealthy (white) boys seeking to experience cultures of Europe.
What is the Grand Tour?
A quarterly statistical report that tracks short‑term international tourism trends, providing up‑to‑date data on global tourist arrivals, source markets, regional performance, and expert confidence levels.
What is the Tourism Barometer?
This theorist developed the psychographic model of tourist motivation.
Who is Plog?
The next evolution of digitally enabled travel.
What is a Digital Passport?
Tourism that involves traveling to a more pristine location to study the flora and/or fauna of a region and includes ecotourism.
What is Nature Tourism?
Launched the advent of space tourism by paying $20M for an 8-day vacation aboard the international space station.
Who is Dennis Tito?
"And people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at the table in the kingdom of God".
What is Luke 13:29?
Pearce's model that recognized tourist motivations are not strictly hierarchical, but instead form patterns influenced by life stages and experiences.
What is the Travel Career Pattern?
A seamless, safe and secure end-to-end traveler journey encompassing both air and non-air traveler touchpoints.
What is the Safe & Seamless Traveler Journey?
Tourism that involves traveling to areas "off the beaten path" to experience something quite different, such as regions of Algonquin Provincial Park.
What is Wilderness Tourism?