Tourism & Transportation

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Tourism

Tourism is a one of the biggest sectors especially in United States of America; this can be known from the fact that tourism employs one of the largest numbers of US citizens which is estimated to be around 7.3 billion in number. Tourism in United States of America is much of a large sector as the country is home to the people from all around the world, thus it is where most of the people come to tour around. The tourism sector consists of eight sub sectors which include Accommodation, Food and Beverage, Tourism Services, Travel Trade, Transportation, Adventure, Tourism & Recreation, Attractions & Events and Conferences. Out of these eight sectors the one that have been chosen for answering the questions that follow are:

Transport Sector

The transportation sector involves a lot of sub sectors underneath it; this includes the following sub sectors:

Airports & Traffics

Roads

Harbours & Inland water infrastructure

Railways

Inter-modal infrastructures

Border Crossing infrastructure

Transport safety

Bridges

Buildings

Solid waste disposal

Energy related infrastructure

Engineering and Construction Conflicts Resolution

Urban Planning

Telecommunication related infrastructure

Water supply and sanitation networks

Dams and hydraulics infrastructures

Except for the above ones the most commonly known subsectors of the transportation section which is a subsector of tourism itself, can be the following:

Cabs

Busses

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Sub ways

Tourism outings have a tendency to be far longer on normal than utility excursions and have been developing at a speedier rate than trips for different purposes. Tourism has delighted in proceeded development for as long as four decades. Global visitor landings have climbed from 60 million in 1960 to 692 million in 2001 (World Tourism Organization 2002). This figure rejects down home tourism in every nation which is evaluated to swell this total figure tenfold (Cooper et al. 1998; European Travel Monitor, 1998).

Revenue Sources

There are multiple revenue sources that contribute towards the earning of the transportation sector, these revenue sources are a personal cab or taxi or a the cab service owned by one of the private companies, followed by the private or the public sector bus service that is either offered by the private companies that are operating in these business of transportation or the bus service being offered by the government itself. Furthermore, the subway is also a revenue contributing service of transportation for tourism, this is one of the most common transportation and revenue generation service or facility in the sector of tourism, as it is very cheaper compared to many other transportation services and reaches out to a large network while taking much lesser time, therefore, it is one of the most economical and revenue generating transportation services that are being offered by the transportation sector.

Cab Drivers are known to earn the most as the amount being charged by them in order to transport one from a point to another is quite high as compared to the other mediums of the transportation that are available. Not only this, travelling through a cab is a personalized service and is dedicated as to the transportation of just one person per trip. A special advantage of hiring a cab for ...