2.2.3. Purpose of travel
As there are many type of tourism, how could businesses capture their potential customers with these types of travel? It is a simple question but it is not easy to answer. Regarding to the purposes of traveller to visit a destination, there are able to divide a number of travellers or tourists into smaller groups.
The list of common forms of travel and its description which are used for specify travellers in a broad sense, are mentioned as following:
i. Leisure / Holiday Tourism
Leisure / Holiday Tourism are the most common form of travel that can be defined in a board meaning. There are two main purposes that can be described as a term of Leisure / Holiday tourism which are Relaxation and Sightseeing:
a) Relaxation
Tourists who want to travel for relaxation will
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Business Tourism
There may be several purposes for business travelers to travel. Trade, meeting, convention and exhibition can be one of those travel purposes. However, business people also consume similar products and services as general tourists do. They would also spend their money on entertainment and recreation while they are at their destinations. Some unique characteristics of business tourists can be found as following:
- Business tourists often travel to unusual seen as tourist destinations. The examples of important destinations for the business travelers are cities like London, Frankfurt, New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
- It is relatively price-inelastic for business travel. Due to the budget of their business, encouraging them to travel more frequently by offering low prices will not effect to their travel decision. In another way around, increasing prices neither discourage they to hesitate go travelling.
- Seasonal factors also not greatly effect to business tourists. Because they frequently travel to the destinations for short time. Even in holiday periods or variation in climate are not the main factors to consider while they need to travel for their
Many things will affect people’s decision to travel, the destinations they choose and for how long they stay. Different destinations are affected by different factors, here we will explore these factors and the destinations they effect.
In this assignment I will be describing the different types of specialist tourism as well as providing examples for each of the types of tourism.
In Conclusion “Drifters” “Lucky Miles” “Last seen at 12.10AM” and “The Ivory trail” all have impacts which affect each traveler in different
At present, travel writing becomes an apparent style of writing to the extent that bookstores designate shelves for travel writing as is the case with fiction, biography, religion, business, and magazines. Within this environment, we already recognize travel writing as a genre without any profound thought or consideration. However, scholars such as Tim Youngs and Peter Hulme agree on the difficulty of defining travel writing as a genre. Thence, it is derived from the complicated and mixed features of travel writing. Although the genre itself is important because it helps categorization, in this essay, I claim that travel writing cannot be defined as a genre while it is a comprehensive term for texts including fiction and nonfiction whose main theme is travel. (quotation)
Another aspect of impact of tourism on a country’s economy is that it facilitates the expansion of the market of goods and services. Foreigners come to a country willing to spend money on different goods and services, thus increasing the amounts of sales. This is a great chance for producers and service providers to receive larger profits. This concerns not only hoteliers, tour operators, and souvenir shops owners. Public transportation, retail stores of different kind, restaurants, and cafes benefit from international tourism. Obviously, if these industries are in demand, businesses will be expanding. On the one hand, it means that more money is paid to the budget. On the other hand, profits generated by the owners are spent inside the country, affecting almost all the fields of the
The typical business traveler is likely to be male; work in a professional, managerial, or technical position; be 30 to 49 years old; and have an income well above the population average. hose who consider their occupation to be professional, managerial, or technical account for over half (53%) of all business trips. This occupational category represents only about 40% of the general population. Sales or service workers account for the next largest share of business trips, 28%. On the other hand, clerical/administrative workers account for less than 4% of business trips even though they represent almost 12% of the population Those who consider their occupation to be professional, managerial, or technical account for over half (53%) of all business trips. This occupational category represents only about 40% of the general population. Sales or service workers account for the next largest share of business trips, 28%. On the other hand, clerical/administrative workers account for less than 4% of business trips even though they represent almost 12% of the population.
Demographical & Socio cultural – tourism can be segmented but due to an increase in diversity of lifestyles, poor communities can easily target certain specific markets such as below extracted travellers. A large percentage of travellers is keen to explore cultural facets of aimed communities and is aware of the impact of tourism on poor cultures.
By definition Travel is an activity taken by individual(s) which involves the movement of people from one point to another for the purpose of personal work, business, and enjoyment.
Tourism in general is closely tied to geography, since travellers take into account the travel time, routing and local climate when choosing vacation destinations. Travel agents, who must successfully sell or advise clients on travel products on a daily basis, need to understand what geographically sets places apart and why destinations are chosen by customers. Travel agents must
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Goeldner and Ritchie (1995) define tourism as a short term movement of people to places other than their normal place of residence and work, including the activities of persons travelling to and staying in locations outside their places of residence and work for not more than twelve months for the purpose of: leisure (recreation, vacation, health, study, religion and sport); and business family, mission and meetings.
Morgan and Condliffe (2006) suggested negative economic impacts such as traffic congestion and disruption to resident lifestyles should be put into account. This kind of business tourism can
Traveling is the word makes many people exited. People can do domestic travel or international travel to refresh and escape their everyday lives. International travel becomes a big business as the world globalized. Tourism means the activity of traveling to a place for pleasure; the business of providing hotels, restaurant, entertainment…etc for people who are traveling. Tourism becomes an important industry on globalized world. It attracts a millions of people in a day and it can make a large profits. For example, Disneyland in California has 45,942 average visitors per day in 2014. (TEA/AECOM Theme Park Attendance Report 2014) Imagine how much profit would produced from 45,942 people. This
Tourism is defined as recreational travel (Russell, 2017) and comes in many forms. People enjoy traveling to other countries,