The aim of this essay is to discuss the relevance of niche tourism and what facts may affect it. It discusses briefly what a niche market is and what role has in the tourism industry. Different facts are exposed during the essay in order to give a better understanding on how economy‚ politic‚ technology and social affect tourism in general and the construction of niche markets. In addition‚ other influences have been discussed to give more information on current facts affecting the industry. An interesting
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TOURISM PRACTICES APPLIED - TOUR.5585 ASSESSEMENT 1 DESTINATION DEVELOPMENT & CHANGE CASE STUDY A: NICHE TOURISM Tutor: Sandra Prebble Livia Berrios Franco ID NBR: 2012002290 Due Date: 03rd April 2012 NICHE TOURISM The concept of Niche Tourism emerged in recent years in counter-point to what is commonly referred as mass tourism (Robinson & Novelly‚ 2005) Niche Tourism is a marketing term used to refer to a portion of market segments in which individuals possess features and
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expected. Nestedness Nestedness is a measure of order in an ecological system‚ referring to the order in which the number of species is related to area or other factors. The more a system is "nested" the more it is organized. Habitat and Niche Habitat A habitat is an ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by a particular species of animal‚ plant‚ or other type of organism. It is the natural environment in which an organism lives‚ or the physical environment that surrounds
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Tourism Tourism is travel for recreational‚ leisure‚ or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes" Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. In 2011‚ there were over 983 million international tourist arrivals worldwide‚ representing a growth of 4.6% when compared to US$ 940 billion in 2010.[2][3] International
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Sport and Adventure Tourism Simon Hudson‚ PhD Editor The Haworth Hospitality Press® An Imprint of The Haworth Press‚ Inc. New York • London • Oxford © 2003 by The Haworth Hospitality Press‚ an imprint of The Haworth Press‚ Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means‚ electronic or mechanical‚ including photocopying‚ microfilm‚ and recording‚ or by any information storage and retrieval system‚ without permission in writing from
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1 Introduction and background of Jeju Island Jeju Island was chosen as the destination for developing the destination marketing. Current segmentation marketing strategy will be discussed in briefing paper as the purpose. Both tourism literature and theory will be used to analyse the data and information generated from various resources. And the outcome of the research and analysis will be present in the finding parts so that recommendations for further destination marketing development
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What is Tourism? Tourism includes several social practices. All these have the small common characteristic that they are different and they are a ’departure ’ from normal life. These characteristics help us to define tourism‚ which according to the W.T.O (World Trade Organization) is the movement of people away from their normal routine of residence and work for a period of not less than 24 hours and not more than 1 year. Tourism is a free time activity because it gets along with its opposite
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The Ten “P’s” of Travel‚ Tourism and Hospitality Marketing* * From Best Practices for International Tourism Development for Rural Communities (2002) by David L. Edgell‚ Sr.‚ PHD Marketing… “…. to design a product/service combination that provides real value to targeted customers‚ motivates purchase‚ and fulfills genuine customer needs.” -James Makens et al.‚ Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism‚ 1999 Ten “P’s” 1. Product The tourism product differs from other products due
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HOW DOES TOURISM IMPACT THE ENVIRONMENT The effect of tourism on the environment can be both positive and negative. Each person or group of people will impact the area they visit in a different way. Whether it is in a negative or positive manner is entirely up to the visitor. Let’s consider the NEGATIVE impacts first: POLLUTION - This is probably the biggest negative factor concerning tourism. People have to travel to their destination. It doesn’t matter if it’s by plane to another country or
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Bacamante Subject : TC 101 – Principles in Tourism HISTORY OF TOURISM Early Tourism - Travel and exploration are basic to human nature. “Torah” - Hebrew word - Studying - Learning - Searching Old Testament - “Noah with his Ark” must have been the first large-scale operator - his passengers were mostly animals. Two Forms of Early Tourism: 1. Travel for business such as trading
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