Types of Tourism
This type of tourism involves visiting a place to enjoy the natural environment without causing damage.
What is ecotourism?
This is a place where people can stay, such as a hotel or hostel.
What is accommodation?
These are the basic human requirements of a customer, such as food, clothing, and shelter.
What are customer needs?
This is a flight of less than three hours.
What is short-haul?
This is the variety of animal and plant life in a place.
What is biodiversity?
This type of tourism involves traveling to destinations to spend time with friends and relatives.
What is VFR (Visiting Friends and Relatives) tourism?
These are small-scale, environmentally sustainable forms of accommodation often found in rural areas.
What are eco-lodges?
These are customers’ preferences, such as the type of hotel or restaurant they want to visit.
What are customer wants?
This is a flight of more than six hours.
What is long-haul?
This is when money from tourism leaves a country instead of staying in the local economy.
What is leakage?
This type of tourism involves visiting destinations because of a special interest, such as painting or cooking.
What is specialist tourism?
This type of resort provides a wide range of products and services on one site, often with a single advance payment.
What is an all-inclusive resort?
This is the process of meeting the needs and wants of customers by providing products and services.
What is customer service?
This is a type of rail transport used in cities to move large numbers of people quickly and cheaply.
What is Mass Rapid Transit (MRT)?
This is the effect of money spent by tourists circulating through the local economy.
What is the multiplier effect?
This type of tourism involves traveling for work reasons, such as attending conferences or exhibitions.
What is MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, Events) tourism?
This is a natural area protected by government rules to conserve the landscape and for tourists to enjoy.
What is a national park or nature park?
This is when external customers return to visit or use a travel and tourism organization again.
What is repeat business?
This is a relaxing leisure journey, normally on water.
What is a cruise?
This type of tourism involves managing tourism provision with the intention of doing so sustainably.
What is ethical tourism?
This type of tourism involves visiting places in ways that help sustain or conserve the environment and local communities.
What is sustainable tourism?
This is a destination planned and built especially for tourism.
What is a purpose-built resort?
This is the amount of money a travel and tourism organization gains by providing products and services to external customers.
What is turnover?
This is a type of sustainable, personal-use transport available for public use in many destinations.
What is an e-scooter?
This organization seeks to protect cultural and natural heritage around the world.
What is UNESCO?