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  1. Introduction or Define tourism unit 2 class 9 Travel and tourism

  2. Types of Tourists in Tourism Management

  3. What is Eco-Tourism? A Beginner's Guide to Sustainable Travel

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  1. Tourism

    tourism, the act and process of spending time away from home in pursuit of recreation, relaxation, and pleasure, while making use of the commercial provision of services. As such, tourism is a product of modern social arrangements, beginning in western Europe in the 17th century, although it has antecedents in Classical antiquity.

  2. Components of tourism: Structure of the tourism industry

    Components of tourism:Transport services . The relationship between transport and tourism is strong.. According to the most commonly accepted definitions of tourism, a person must travel away from their home environment for at least one night in order to be a tourist (although I would argue that this definition needs updating given that it doesn't account for novel forms of tourism such as a ...

  3. Tourism

    Tourism is one of the world's fastest-growing industries and a major foreign exchange and employment generation for many countries. It is one of the most remarkable economic and social phenomena. The word 'tour' is derived from the Latin word tornus, meaning 'a tool for making a circle.'. Tourism may be defined as the movement of ...

  4. Tourism: Meaning, Types, Nature, Components & Importance

    The World Tourism Organization (WTO) has specially defined tourism as a practice of travelling and staying away from your home or usual environment for 1 year or less in case if it is for leisure purposes, or for 24 hours or less if meant for business/professional purposes. Tourism concept is distinct from travel.

  5. Tourism

    Tourists at the Temple of Apollo, Delphi, Greece. Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than ...

  6. 1.1 What is Tourism?

    Tourism is 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. These people are called visitors (which may be either tourists or excursionists; residents or non-residents) and tourism has to do with their activities ...

  7. What Is Tourism? A Definition Of Tourism

    Tourism is the generic term used to cover both demand and supply that has been adopted in a variety of forms and used throughout the world. Tourism essentially refers to the activities undertaken by visitors, also known as the visitor economy. The tourism industry encompasses all activity that takes place within the visitor economy.

  8. Why Tourism?

    The contribution of tourism to economic well-being depends on the quality and the ‎revenues of the tourism offer. UN Tourism assists destinations in their sustainable ‎positioning in ever more complex national and international markets. As the UN agency ‎dedicated to tourism, UN Tourism points out that particularly developing countries ...

  9. Definitions and Key Concepts

    The tourist is the main element of the system and therefore its definition and classification should be provided first. ... each of these components has to be studied in an isolated manner to gain deep understanding on the characteristics of tourism, and this book, only focusing on the economic dimensions of tourism, is not an exception ...

  10. 1.1 What is Tourism?

    Tourism is 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. These people are called visitors (which may be either tourists or excursionists; residents or non-residents) and tourism has to do with their activities ...

  11. The Tourism Industry: An Overview

    1 Introduction. This chapter describes the main sectors within the travel, tourism and hospitality industries. It provides a good overview of the vertical and horizontal inter-relationships between different sectors. Firstly, this chapter describes the nature of tourism and the individuals' inherent motivations to travel.

  12. PDF Chapter 1 The Tourism Industry: An Overview

    1.1 Introduction. This chapter describes the main sectors within the travel, tourism and hospitality industries. It provides a good overview of the vertical and horizontal inter-relationships between different sectors. Firstly, this chapter describes the nature of tourism and the individuals inherent motivations to travel.

  13. Tourism and Culture

    This webpage provides UN Tourism resources aimed at strengthening the dialogue between tourism and culture and an informed decision-making in the sphere of cultural tourism. It also promotes the exchange of good practices showcasing inclusive management systems and innovative cultural tourism experiences.. About Cultural Tourism. According to the definition adopted by the UN Tourism General ...

  14. Tourism Industry: Everything You Need to Know About Tourism

    Tourism Industry: Everything You Need to Know About Tourism. What is the tourism industry? What is a tourist? What are the benefits of tourism?

  15. PDF IDENTIFYING THE COMPONENTS OF TOURISM

    Economic Definition Australian Department of Tourism & Recreation (1975) defines tourism as an identifiable nationally important industry, which involves a wide cross section of component activities including the provision of transportation, accommodation, recreation, food, and related services.

  16. PDF UNIT 6 TOURISM SYSTEM: COMPONENTS, Tourism System

    The version suggests that every component of the tourism system reinforces and affects the subsequent. The key elements of the system are the market, travel, the destination and marketing. Market demand, in this model is determined by a number of internal and external influences which affect the travel purchase.

  17. Tourism geography

    Tourism geography is that branch of human geography that deals with the study of travel and its impact on places. Geography is fundamental to the study of tourism, because tourism is geographical in nature. Tourism occurs in places, it involves movement and activities between places and it is an activity in which both place characteristics and ...

  18. What is tourism? Who is a tourist? What are the three essential

    The three main components of tourism are attraction, accessibility and amenities. Attraction: Refers to places that attract the tourist's attention. There are two types of attraction- natural attraction, which includes landscape, seascape, beaches and forests and cultural attraction, which includes historical monuments, fairs and festivals.

  19. What Is Ecotourism? Definition, Examples, Pros and Cons

    Freder / Getty Images. A conservationist by the name of Hector Ceballos-Lascurain is often credited with the first definition of ecotourism in 1987, that is, "tourism that consists in travelling ...

  20. (PDF) Understanding the Tourism Product

    Abstract. The aim of this paper is to propose a marketing-oriented definition of the tourist product as. well as a classification system of its components based on an extensive review and analysis ...

  21. What is Tourism Product? Definition, Types, Characteristics

    Tourism Products are a combination of goods and services demanded by a tourist during travel to and stay at a destination. These include natural, cultural and manmade attractions and facilities such as hotels, transport and ancillary services. In this process, tourists derive an experience which varies from individual to individual.

  22. (PDF) Understanding the Tourism Product

    Understanding the Tourism Product. Dimitris Koutoulas. The aim of this paper is to propose a marketing-oriented definition of the tourist product as well as a classification system of its components based on an extensive review and analysis of tourism marketing literature. Tourist products satisfy the tourist needs and are the objects of the ...

  23. Tourism Product Concept » Meaning, Concept, Characteristics

    Tourism product is a group of various components and elements which are combined together to satisfy the needs and wants of the consumers. The product in tourism industry is the complete experience of the tourist from the point of origin to the destination point and back to the origin point. The product in Tourism may be defined as the 'sum ...