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Essay on Similarities and Differences Between T&H

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1, Definitions:
1.1. Tourism: according to F.W. Ogilvie (1933), tourism can be defined as ‘persons who go to somewhere rather than home or workplace for a period of time and spend money in that place’. But this definition has its limitations as it is too broad and it does not have specific standards or criteria to define tourism.

Many organizations have been tried to come up with an accurate definition of tourism, but till now they only commonly accepted some factors that help to define tourism. Tourism is an activity of human beings which must comply with three factors--- time range, distance parameter, and a circular journey. The time ranges from 24 hours to 1 year, the travel distance should be more than 100 kilometers and the …show more content…

In 2001, marketing contributed to 27% of tourism research and another 33% to hospitality research. Other disciplines such as economics (13% for tourism and 4% for hospitality), and planning (5% for tourism and 1% for hospitality) contributed much less ( Henning, G, Levy, S, & Ritchie, 2005). This indicates that marketing has a significant impact on both industries. Good marketing skills are definitely needed if both industries want to survive or even consider making expansions. There is a new marketing approach which has been increasingly used called relationship marketing and it emphasis on building long-tern relationships with customers (Pucito & Goranczewski, 2011). As a result, the loyalty of customers will increase and they will not be attracted by other rivals, which indicate more continuous profit rather than short-term profit.
2.3. Government level
2.3.1 Government’ Support-fairness, reasonable and justice
No industry can survive without the support of government, especially for tourism and hospitality industries because they need the government to set up laws to regulate different business entities, and make sure the operation of their business complies with the principles of fairness, reason and justice. An example of this would be the recent law called Travel Law Quarterly in UK (2012), in which Air Travel Trust has developed a policy for “making payments during a failure of an Air Travel Organizers’ Licensing

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