The Tourism System



The Tourism System

PART (A) - DEFINITIONS

Tourist

The tourist is a person who visits other countries with his families, relatives or friends on vacation and through these activities a tourism country generates revenues in several areas such as;

The travel agencies, tour operators (tour operator), the group guides, tourist offices and central reservations of places to stay.

The hotels, restaurants and cafés, campsites and other tourist accommodation (villages, cottages, hostels, shelters, etc),

Coach who organize excursions

The airline industry

That the movement of trains

The sport and recreation

Hospitality

Hospitality is a virtue or quality that is to be kind. The term originates in the Latin hospitalities, which provides assistance and care to anyone who needs something. In antiquity, the hospitality was one of the virtues most valued. So people considered it a duty or obligation to be kind to strangers, travellers or foreigners. Certain cultures such as Arab and Oriental still maintain the importance of hospitality. The complexity of the modern world makes the sole hospitality channelled through non-governmental entities or organizations. The lodging segment of the hospitality industry includes more familiar types of establishments that have offered shelter to travellers. Hotels that we see on the streets of the city, along roads, near the beaches, and near airports, ski resorts, theme parks, lakes and national parks all fulfils the criteria of hospitality (Brymer, 2004).

Events of Tourism Industry

The tourism industry is multifaceted. Many businesses, companies and organizations are involved in servicing tourists. The emergence of tourism business took place due to the intensive development of regional and international tourism exchange and strong fragmentation of the consumer and producer of tourist services (hotels, restaurants, etc.), both in time (early acquisition and sale of tours) and in space (different countries, even continents travel). An important component of the tourism industry in any country is to provide local employment, loading of hotels, restaurants, entertainment, foreign exchange earnings, etc. Tourism provides that a tourist is sure to leave his/her money in the visited country or locality. Tourism is based on the exploitation of local tourism resources, and in return the area or the state should get the revenue (Morrison, 2002).

The modern tourist market is sufficiently developed. The set of elements of the tourist experience consists of those elements that attract tourists to the destination and satisfy their needs and expectations. This distinguishes the components such as resources and tourist attractions, tourist silver (the sector related companies), infrastructure and institutional elements (public and private institutions involved in tourism development).

PART (B) - THE TOURISM SYSTEM

The tourism system is composed of a set of heterogeneous elements that are closely interlinked and constantly dynamic. According to the World Tourism Organization, tourism system consists of four elements: demand, supply, geographical and market operators. Meanwhile, some researches propose the elements such as demand, supply, infrastructure, superstructure, attractions and facilities. A tourism system is a set of resources that interact with each other to accomplish a common goal. Tourism demand can be defined as the set of attributes, values, services and products that ...