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What is tourism?

• • Recognition of the need for organizations to improve the state of people, the planet, and profit simultaneously if they are to achieve sustainable, long-term growth

• • A social, cultural and economic phenomenon which entails the movement of people to countries or places outside their usual environment for personal or business/professional purposes

• • Places or things that draw visitors to the destination

• • Takes full account of current and future economic, social, and environmental impacts addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment, and host communities

What are the 3 main branches of tourism?

• • Security and poltiical reasons

  • Sustainable development and environmental reasons

  • Economic reasons

• 1. involve/improve residents

  2. Enhance infrastructure

  3. Expand service for residents

• 1. Visits from residents within own country (domestic)

  2. Visits to a country by non-residents of that country (inbound tourism)

  3. Visits by the residents of a country to other countries (outbound tourism)

• 1. Protect natural resources

  2. Monitor and manage visitor impacts

  3. educate/inform visitors

What is the flow of tourism?

• • increasing income: for profit, government money from outside destination

  • Increasing employment: direct = lodging/restaurants; indirect = construction, agriculture

• • Destination: planning, developing, controlling

  • Marketing: strategy, branding, promotion

  • Travel: travel flows, distribution, transportation

  • Demand: factors influencing visitors

• 1. Controlling of visitors/goods

  2. Controlling quality of visitor experience

  3. Ensure travel safety

  4. Establish tourism organizations

  5. Gaming control

  6. Maintaining building standards

• • Alc sales and regulation

  • Building and zoning codes

  • Classification, grading and rating of hotels

  • Fire safety regulations

  • Health safety regulations

What is a mature destination?

• • Iconic euro./asain places; have history

• • Up and coming and still developing; less history

• • Systems needed by a destination to serve tourism businesses and visitors and meet resident needs

• • Places or things that draw visitors to the destination

What is an emerging destination?

• • Iconic euro./asain places; have history

• • Up and coming and still developing; less history

• • The human factor in the destination project

• • Systems required to connect places within and outside the destination (interstate)

What is infrastructure?

• • Roads, sewers, airports, water

• • Places or things that draw visitors to the destination

• • Systems required to connect places within and outside the destination (interstate)

• • Systems needed by a destination to serve tourism businesses and visitors and meet resident needs

What is transportation?

• • Systems needed by a destination to serve tourism businesses and visitors and meet resident needs

• • Systems required to connect places within and outside the destination (interstate)

• • Places or things that draw visitors to the destination

• constructed facilities that support attractions and events (lodging, F&B, shopping, convention centers)

What are attractions?

• • Gathering of groups of people for short periods of time for entertainment, celebration, family, and business

• • Systems required to connect places within and outside the destination (interstate)

• • Places or things that draw visitors to the destination

• • The human factor in the destination project

What are events?

• • Gathering of groups of people for short periods of time for entertainment, celebration, family, and business

• • Places or things that draw visitors to the destination

• • Man-made, natural, climate, history and heritage, arts/culture/tradition, industrial, dark

• • Infrastructure, transportation, built facilities, attractions, events, and service quality/friendliness

What are built facilities?

• • The human factor in the destination project

• • Places or things that draw visitors to the destination

• constructed facilities that support attractions and events (lodging, F&B, shopping, convention centers)

• • Gathering of groups of people for short periods of time for entertainment, celebration, family, and business