: Paul Stolk Today‚ increase in the discretionary leisure time and disposable income of the society has undoubtedly created tourism boom in many countries. As soon as tourism industry is measured as a fundamental factor in improving the economy‚ local governments and other corporations in a destination have shifted their focus towards creation of more tourism attractions in order to compete with related destinations on targeted markets. In the olden days‚ people who travelled with the leisure
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Tourism is an activity that is critical to the economic and social development. By World Tourism Organization (World Tourism Organization) has predicted that by the year 2563 will have a number of international tourists to 1‚600 million of the estimated growth rate of tourism in developing countries. Expected to increase approximately 4 percent per year‚ particularly the industrialized countries have a rate increase of about 2.5 percent per year‚ the study found. Tourists with travel in most foreign
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Problem Statement The growth and development of tourism in Trinidad from 2002–2007 and its effects on the economy and society. Statement of the Problem Tourism plays a major role in the growth and development of Trinidad. Many initiatives have been put in place to expand the industry. The government of Trinidad is committed to establishing and implementing standards of development and maintenance for the tourism industry. They try to maintain all the tourist attractions such as beaches and museums
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Impacts From Tourism Change or loss of indigenous identity and values Tourism can cause change or loss of local identity and values‚ brought about by several closely related influences: Commodification Tourism can turn local cultures into commodities when religious rituals‚ traditional ethnic rites and festivals are reduced and sanitized to conform to tourist expectations‚ resulting in what has been called "reconstructed ethnicity." Once a destination is sold as a tourism product‚ and
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The World Tourism Organization had its initial stages as the International assembly of Official Tourist Traffic relations set up in 1925 in The Hague. It was renamed the International Union of Official Travel Organizations (IUOTO) later than World War II and shifted to Geneva. IUOTO was a scientific‚ non-governmental organization‚ whose relationship at its climax included 109 National Tourist Organizations (NTOs) and 88 Associate Members‚ among them private and public groups. As tourism raised and
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www.elsevier.com/locate/atoures Annals of Tourism Research‚ Vol. 28‚ No. 2‚ pp. 360–377‚ 2001 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved Printed in Great Britain 0160-7383/01/$20.00 PII: S0160-7383(00)00051-7 OUTDOOR ADVENTURE TOURISM A Review of Research Approaches Karin Weber La Trobe University‚ Australia Abstract: A review of the existing literature on adventure tourism reveals that research on this subject has so far focused mainly on preconceived notions of scholars and
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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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ANALYSIS OF THE TOURISM DESTINATION – CONCEPTUAL–METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS. CASE STUDY: THE NORTHERN OLTENIA OR OLTENIA BENEATH THE MOUNTAIN FELICIA–AURELIA STĂNCIOIU‚ OCTAVIAN ARSENE‚ NICOLAE TEODORESCU‚ MIRELA MAZILU‚ IOAN COSMESCU‚ ROXANA CRISTINA MARINESCU Felicia–Aurelia STĂNCIOIU‚ Professor PhD Academy of the Economic Studies‚ Bucharest Octavian ARSENE‚ Director of the General Board for Development and International Relations‚ Ministry of the Small and Middle Enterprises‚ Trade‚ Tourism and liberal
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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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A. ROAD TRANSPORT- dominated by motor cars and coaches that provides door- to- door flexibility‚ gives view of the landscape and a means of transporting recreational equipment. B. RAIL TRANSPORT- provides examples of the specific development of a country. It competes with road transport in terms of time and distance- from city center to city center. C. AIR TRANSPORT- their main market is the visitors who give utmost importance to speed and range. This is available in scheduled and chartered
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