Going Places
Travel Termiology
Sectors of the Travel Industry
Attractions
Vocabulary
100
Going from one place to another.
What is travel?
100
Anything that leisure travelers find interesting, such as a famous building, museum or theme park.
What are attractions?
100
Hotels, Motels, Condominiums, Timeshares, Lodges, All-suite Hotels, Campgrounds.
What is Lodging?
100
Attracts locals, Attracts visitors from far away, Strong connection to food, lodging, transportation, and tax dollars.
What are sports and entertainment?
100
“you”, the “guest”, or the “Client”, Passenger, Visitor, customer…all purchase a travel product.
What is Consumers?
200
Find Food for Herbs of Animals.
We first traveled to?
200
Moving people and things from place to place.
What is Transportation?
200
One of the fastest growing segments in travel.
What are cruise lines?
200
Eiffel Tower in Paris, Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Pyramids in Egypt?
What attractions?
200
Companies that create, own, provide products being sold: airlines, lodging chains, car rentals, rail companies, bus lines, ship lines.
What is Suppliers?
300
Two.
How many travel broad categories are there?
300
Industry encompassing lodging and food services (food and beverage).
What is Hospitality?
300
Business that helps the public with their travel plans and needs.
What are travel agencies?
300
Disneyland, Disney World, 6 Flags, Bush Gardens, Sea World.
What are theme parks?
300
Companies that act as go-between “middle man”.
What is Intermediaries?
400
Travel for enjoyment, such as vacation, going to beach.
What is Leisure Travel?
400
The entire travel industry.
What is Tourism?
400
Own and operate buses.
What are motorcoach operators?
400
Local city parks, state parks, national park.
What is parks and recreation?
400
Measurable factors such as age, income, gender, marital status of customers.
What is Demographics?
500
Travel associated with work, also called corporate travel, such as conventions and meetings.
What is Business Travel?
500
Tourist.
Where does the word Tourism come from?
500
Hertz, Avis, Budget, Enterprise.
What are rental cars?
500
For business, organizations, clubs, Includes trade shows, expos, World’s Fair.
What are meetings and conventions?
500
Hard to measure factors such as attitude, preferences, beliefs.
What is Psychographics?
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