Travel and Tourism

Camp #1: One group of authors are motivated to travel to investigate cultures and for their own self betterment. This group of authors travel and record their experiences to share them with those who are unable to do as they do due to the reader’s circumstances or mindsets towards travel. These authors defend travel to be a positive experience and corrects the false assumptions that travel is dangerous and only there for crocked tourism schemes.

You should develop information provided in P1. You need to consider why these links exist and why relationships are formed, explaining how they affect the organisations concerned. E.g.

In this document I am going to be looking at factors that affect both inbound and domestic tourism deciding to travel to the UK or travel within the UK. Some examples of factors that I will be reviewing include the following; health, safety and security, accessibility, marketing campaigns, availability of products and services, quality of good and services, economic recession in the UK/and or tourist generating countries, exchange rate, travel restrictions, emerging of new markets, competition from other destinations and finally weather.

Researchers have different definitions for tourism. According to (Jafari,J.,2000)." "tourism is traveling to natural areas untouched and uncontaminated by human factor, with the specific purpose of studying, admiring and enjoying the scenery, wild animals and plants in it, as well as any cultural events (past and present) found in these areas.

So, you finally decide on your destination for your upcoming vacation. Now think about why you picked that place? Are there sentimental reasons? Financial factors? Has it been advertised on tv recently? Did people

In this chapter, of Management of Tourist Destinations, we will learn the importance of evaluating important factors, which have the most impact by satisfying the visitors and strengthening relationships, to gain maximum benefit through tourism.

As the economy develops, the individualized and diversified demand of tourists is growing. Tourism consumers in different regions, their needs and desires are vastly different, and also change with the change of environmental factors. Travel agencies highlight the characteristics of market positioning, emphasizing the differences, and establish

History: pilgrimages, the grand tours, post industrial revolution, post war, current; factors facilitating growth eg technology, time, money, freedom of movement, infrastructure, social conditions; possible future developments eg sustainability Travel and tourism sector: travel services; tourism services; conferences and events; visitor attractions; accommodation services; passenger transport; relationships and links, levels of integration; Liepers tourist system, chain of distribution; private, public and voluntary sectors

The researchers view the decision making process in tourism in two ways. Firstly, the consumer identifies a need, search for information on the product regardless of the cost and the purchase channels, and then compere the alternative products and suppliers. Afterward, they make a choice of product to consume and finally make judgement based on the use experience of the product which maybe influence future buying decisions. Secondly, some other factors such as imagery, advertising, recommendation from other people and peer pressure have obviously influence on an individual’s decision. Furthermore, a personal decision-making process is affected by personal, behavioural and destination-specific qualities (Page & Connell, 2014). The personal factors are including self-confidence, personality, experience, lifestyle and life-stage. Social and personal interactions also affect an individual’s decision, when the individual is travelling with others or family members, the need of contact with service staff and host community are taken into consideration. The behavioural factor is reflecting that the behaviour patterns may instruct an individual’s preference in order to explore the new places and activities, or to search for holiday information pre-booking. Lastly, destination-specific

Hospitality and Tourism companies recognise that they cannot appeal to all customers in the marketplace

During June and July, the agency is having a promotional campaign. The aim is that each week they will focus on different types of destinations: coastal areas, tourist towns and cities, business and conference destinations, countryside areas, heritage and cultural destinations and purpose built. The window display will feature details of holidays to reflect that type of destination and special offers. There will also be a map highlighting the destinations available. To assist the travel consultants in selling the featured type of destination, you will have to produce a sheet highlighting the key physical features. You will also have to demonstrate how the characteristics of destinations affect the appeal to tourists and issues likely to affect the popularity of Tourist destinations.You are required to 1. Compare the appeal of current leading tourist destinations with that of currently developing tourist destinations and evaluate how characteristics of a tourist destination affect its appeal ( AC 3.1, 3.2) 2. Analyse issues that affect the popularity of tourist destinations discuss the potential for responsible tourism to enhance the host community at worldwide tourist destinations. (AC 4.1, 4.2)

When looking at the relationship between tourism and work as depicted in the documentary Life and Dept (2001) that was watched in class, one must first understand that tourism is a recent phenomenon. It is something that has just recently been made available and affordable to the everyday citizen. With this rather new development, tourism has become one of the largest industries in the world in term of revenue. This industry is so large that it employs "one in six workers in the Caribbean" (Gentry 2007).

The image plays a pivotal role as it affects consumer choice as well it is perceived to be a key element in the success of an organization. Due to demographic, socioeconomic and technological tendencies, and competitiveness in the tourism industry, tourist destinations achieve a competitive advantage mainly based on their perceived image relative to their competitors in target markets (Baloglu and Mangaloglu, 2001). Therefore, it is very important to create a positive image (Baloglu and McCleary, 1999; Gartner, 1994).

According to the World Tourism Organization, tourism is the world's number one export earner, ahead of automotive products and petroleum, with more than 600 million people travelling to foreign countries during 2000, spending more than US$ 400 billion and all the tourism receipts internationally have total to more than US$ 500 billion. With all the people on the move, available space and time, affordable airfares, new, exciting destination and globalization, clearly resulted to the growth of tourism (Burns, 2005).

Task 2 – Understanding how the features and characteristic of tourist destination affects their appeal to tourist.