Video 1 and 2 on Key Concepts about Tourism
What is tourism?
Tourism is a business of providing tourists services to tourists.
Tourism can be providing tours, such as bus tour in London, or providing services like accommodation, galleries or museum. Tourism is not focused on organizing holiday, it’s rather on organization of the things that the people enjoys holiday.
What are the different types of tourism?
There are three different types of tourism.
Local tourism, a tourism in the main area that individual lives. (Go to the bund in Shanghai)
National tourism, a tourism that occurs within the country but not in the living area. (Travel to Beijing or Tianjin).
International tourism is a type of tourism that takes place in outside the
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In Australia, tourism contributes about 35 billion dollars in national economy. Also, nation spend many tax revenue on tourism. Therefore, it is important to people to recognize where the taxation is spent.
Tourism actually employs lots of people, high concentration people are employed at tourism industry.
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Video: History of tourism
4 distinct periods
Ancient tourism
Ancient tourism started in Egypt and Greece. Ancient Egyptians visited certain national landmarks such as the great pyramid of Gaza or the great sphinx. These structures are the example of tourist attraction, and Egyptian Pharaohs often visited these places.
Ancient Greek’s travel had similar aspect with modern day tourism’s. Ancient Greek actually visited other city to watch Olympic games. Moreover, there were travel writings, such as Herodotus’s the histories.
Classical tourism(BC 600-AD 600)
Travel and tourism continued into classical era.
Roman empire developed the road network through Europe.
Traveling tourism was undertaken by wealthy people who were seeking fun.
In this time period, Romans developed Spa holiday and beach holiday.
16th century Beginning of modern tourism
Wealthy people take
China 's Ancient Lifeline" illustrates the history of some Chinese tourist attractions and tries to imagine how prosperous they were a thousand years ago. The author uses a unique writing strategy that he puts his strong emotion in sceneries and recalls the old times. The article successfully sparks people’s emotions but fails to analyze the historical reasons. Its subject and writing strategy is related to Cultural Perplexity in Agonized Travel.
Many people don't really know about ancient Egypt but it was one very interesting place. By the way, the people dressed all the way to how they mummified the Pharaohs and important people for the afterlife. There are just a lot of things to learn about ancient Egypt, but I'm going to narrow it down and talk about the social pyramid of Ancient Egypt. Ancient Egypt social pyramid is arranged to where the Pharos and those of deities were at the top, and slaves and servants made up the bottom of the pyramid. Okay, so at the top, you had Pharos then under them, you have Government officials, priests, and nobles.
Grado en Turismo (Ingles) History of travel and tourism Work of the subject Student: Marko Nikolic - SILK ROAD - Index: 1. Introduction 2. Silk 3.
Sustainability and Responsibility imply that tourism resources and attractions should be utilised in such a way that their subsequent use by future generations is not compromised, according to UNWTO. Basically, Tourism could be defined as people travelling to a destination for recreation, leisure or business outside the place of residency. Travels can be to destinations that are international or domestic. If residents travel only within their country is considered domestic tourism.
“Tourism Behaviour understanding includes the idea and knowledge of the different factors which are by no other means very obvious because the effects which do shape the activities and tastes of tourism are often highly embedded in the cultural and the personal biography of the individual that the whole of subject is not known of how actually they were made.” (Seaton, 1996). Figure.1. The tourism system.
Tourism is the income of people from one place to another place for vacation, but it can also be for business or entertainment. Tourism can either be international or domestic. Tourism has an influence on any country, either it’s for a positive impact or a negative impact. An example one might consider includes that the tourism in that individual country could possibly increase the income and positively improve the economic aspect of the country, but tourism can also negatively impact the environment. Tourism can also affect the population living in the country due to the amount of tourism which furthers the idea of more jobs need to be created for the new tourists.
“Tourism is now the largest industry in the world by virtually an economic measure, including gross output, value added, employment, capital investment and tax contributions. ”(Wheatcroft,1994).Tourists can be defined as people who travel to and stay in places outside their usual surroundings for more than twenty-four hours and not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes by the World Tourism Organization. Tourism industry is the idea of attracting, accommodating, and pleasing groups or individual travelling for pleasure or business. For example hotels, restaurants, and tour guides. Five sectors in tourism industry, which is including accommodation, food & beverage services, recreation & entertainment, transportation and travel services.
Travelling helps us to know more about different lifestyles, cultures, cuisines and festivals. Visiting new sights and exploring new places increases our knowledge and widens our global perspective. We get to learn so many things about different cultures and customs. It makes us open minded and gives us a new viewpoint about life and it also changes some of our bad habits.
The definition of the word “Tourism” is different source by source, person by person. There is no specific definition for it. Each institution defines “Tourism” in a varied way. Firstly, tourism is related to several groups which involving in or are affected by tourism industry. Their perceptions are crucial to the development for the definition of tourism.
Chapter 6: What are the consequences, for your type of tourism, regarding the 3Ps? This chapter discusses the definition of the 3 P's and how they apply to voluntourism People, planet, profit. Three levels of Sustainability by Cavagnaro & Curiel, (2012) ♣ People Zhao and Ritchie, (2007) describe the fact that local residents and destinations can benefit from the volunteers who stay with and work. with things like restoring old buildings, or building important living needs. But a destination can also make profit of the point that the volunteers are spending money in the local villages.
FROM THE BEGINNING OF 1900 TO OUR DAYS Until the first half of 1900, going on holiday was an experience belonging to a privileged class, something that only few could afford. In the 50s-60s, the economic growth and the evolution of means of transport made going on holiday something accessible to a broader range of the people. Back then, the typical tourists were travelling to the same places, at the same time and to do the same things, because there wasn’t that much choice. This type of tourist had not established preferences, it was predictable, driven by emulation and had not yet manifested any special needs.
2 Tourism Industry “Tourism comprises the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one year for leisure, business and other purposes”. United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). “Tourism is the temporary short-term movement of people to destinations outside the places where they normally live and work, and activities during their stay at these destinations; it includes movement for all purposes, as well as day visits or excursions. ”(Holloway, 1987, p.2 & 3).
Rural development is as important as urban development. Alleviating the hardships of the rural people is fundamental to rural development. Efforts at developing the rural areas are aimed at creating industries and employment opportunities. Any initiative towards this end would be welcomed with open arms in Nepal. This would also reduce the population density in the cities.
The concept brings proofs on how people spend their time, in which areas and for which purposes. (Nash, 1960, cited in Morgan…). As the people spend their time on different activities, one of those activities is tourism. As well as leisure, tourism has many definitions; we will use one of those which reflect main idea. Tourism is a
In this report sustainable tourism development will be explained and analyzed in relation to the essential features that influence a country’s tourism development. Sustainable tourism has to deal with social, environment and economic impacts. However tourism except from positive impacts has also some negative impacts regarding the economy, environment and social aspects. Sustainable development is also about developing a better life for all people that will be as practicable in the future as it was at present.