Travel and Tourism Vocab

Ecotourism

Visiting a place to enjoy the natural environment without causing damage.

Accommodation

A place where people can stay.

Destinations

Areas that attract visitors.

Pandemic

A outbreak of disease across the world.

Cultural Attraction

Site that appeals to tourists because of links with the past or present ways of life or traditions of the local people.

Pilgrimage

A visit to a place considered to be special in order to show respect.

Domestic Tourism

When tourists visit destinations in their home country.

Mass Tourism

When many tourists travel to popular holiday destinations.

Independent Travel

Self-arranged tourism.

Natural Attraction

A place that appeals to tourists because of the environment.

Built Attraction

A building or monument that appeals to tourists.

Vertical Integration

Merging of travel and tourism businesses belonging to the different industry component.

Horizontal Integration

Merging of travel and tourism businesses belonging to the same industry component.

Resort

a location visited mainly by leisure tourists.

All-inclusive Resort

A destination or hotel that provides a wide range of products and services on one site. Customers of an all inclusive resort often make just one advance payment and pay little or nothing more while staying at the resort.

Purpose-Built Resort

A destination that is planned and built especially for tourism.

Infrastructure

The basic systems and services that support local people and tourists in an area.

Accessibility

Ease of reaching or moving around a destination.

Mobility

The ability to move around freely; PRMs are people with a reduced mobility.

External Customers

Customers who use the products and services of a travel and tourism business and art not members of staff or otherwise part of the business.