Medical Tourism is used to represent obtaining medical or surgical services while travelling or vacationing in another country. Medical tourism is a form of health tourism generally referring to the travel of people to another country with the objective of obtaining medical treatment in that country. Medical Tourism, which is defined as movements of people travelling to another country for medical treatment (Keckley & Underwood, 2008) is continuing to be a growing global industry. Turner (2007) suggested
assignment I will be describing the different types of specialist tourism as well as providing examples for each of the types of tourism. Adventure tourism Adventure tourism is tourism which takes place in an unusual place and it is an exciting experience, this involves exploration of an area. This is different to the typical beach vacation for example going to bungee jumping or rock climbing would be classed as adventure tourism. Adventure tourism generally involves some form of physical activity and is
needs of each class in the society, the limitation of development as well as the demands of present and future generation. These three points will be analyzed in detail below. In fact, mass tourism has provided a relevantly equal opportunity for people that they can treat themselves to the pleasure of tourism. However, the holiday might be destroyed because of the crowed heritage sites and expensive price. The needs of present visitors may not be achieved. Meanwhile, the valued heritages might be
Tourism has always been apart of us in different ways, shapes, and forms. It has greatly evolved due to technology and transportation advances, which have made traveling efficient and quick and given us the proper resources to be prepared prior to “adventuring” away from home. Tourism has become the largest growth industry in the world. It not only witnesses millions of tourists but is also host to the largest number of jobs. Ranging from hotels, restaurants, attraction sites, transportation services
Tourism is an activity done by an individual or a group of individuals, which leads to a motion from a place to another. From a country to another for performing a specific task or it is a visit to a place or several places in the purpose of entertaining which leads to an awareness of other civilizations and cultures, also increasing the knowledge of countries, cultures, and history (Central Department of Tourism & Summer Resorts 2006). Tourism is an important industry that depends on culture and
Critically analyse and evaluate the relationship between tourism and development & illustrate your arguments with practical examples from a variety of destination areas. In order to be able to understand the relationship that exists between tourism and development, it is important primarily to understand what is meant by the term ‘development’. One important point is that if development is linked to economic progress, then the majority of third world countries are currently not in a developmental
destination can be analyzed with the help of Butler's Tourism Life Cycle Model. Butler (1980) introduced the concept of the model which clarifies and extends earlier work by, for example, Cristaller (1963), Noronha (1976) and Stansfield (1978). In doing so, Butler clearly links the development cycle of tourism destinations to that of products in the product life cycle model. This is one the best used management framework to know the evolution in a tourism destination as described by Baum (1998), the original
enjoyment. Tourism can be defined as the set of activities of persons traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year and whose main purpose of travel is other than the exercise of an activity renumerated from within the place visited. While on the surface travel and tourism mean approximately the same things, they Represent two completely different ways of approaching a journey. Here are the differences between travel and tourism, broken down
ARTICLE IN PRESS Tourism Management 27 (2006) 138–145 www.elsevier.com/locate/tourman Shopping and Tourist Night Markets in Taiwan An-Tien Hsieha, Janet Changb,Ã b School of Management, Da-Yeh University, Chang-hua, Taiwan Department and Graduate School of Tourism Management, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan Received 29 January 2004; accepted 28 June 2004 a Abstract From theoretical viewpoints, analyses of consumer motivation have been applied to the shopping and the tourism industry for
The entrepreneur The entrepreneur I choose to interview is a well-known and respectable woman in the tourism-hospitality industry in Vietnam. Her name is Ngoc T.B. Nguyen. There are now many different definitions for the word entrepreneur and entrepreneurship, the definition of entrepreneur as the ‘risk taker’ might be the one that suits her best. Born in 1963, this woman has spent more than 10 years in the Tourist industry and has since then been an inspirational model for many young adults in