Tourism Network, System, and Supply Chain Vocabulary

A comprehensive vocabulary flashcard set covering tourism network components, tourism system elements, tourism supply categories, and the tourism supply chain structure based on STI lecture materials.

Tourism Network

A partnership involving different enterprises, institutions, and host communities that connects the travel industry across public and private sectors.

Tourism Demand

The number of people planning to purchase tourism products supported by sufficient purchasing power, governed by determinants, motivations, and buyer behavior.

Tourism Supply

All assets, services, and goods enjoyed or purchased by tourists at a destination, which act as key elements to attract visitors.

Direct Providers

Businesses that provide services, activities, and products consumed and purchased directly by travelers, such as airlines, hotels, restaurants, ground transportation, travel agencies, and retail shops.

Support Services

Businesses and specialized services that lend support to direct providers by supplying products and services that direct providers then sell to tourists, such as tour wholesalers, hotel management firms, and research companies.

Developmental Organizations

Organizations, particularly government agencies, planners, financial institutions, and educational bodies, that handle complex, long-term tourism development and enforce laws or rules.

Tourism System

A framework showing the interaction between tourism demand, bridging components, and tourism supply at a destination.

Determinants of Tourism Demand

Factors in society that drive and set limits to the volume of a population's demand for travel, including economic, demographic, geographic, socio-cultural, mobility, regulatory, and technological factors.

Travel Motivation

The inner state or specific needs and wants of tourists that serve as one of the most important psychological influences on tourist behavior or buyer behavior.

Bridging Components

Intermediaries and facilitators—including transportation, travel agents, tour operators, and marketing channels—that connect tourism supply at a destination with tourist demand.

Natural Resources

Physical characteristics of an area used and enjoyed by visitors, generalized as natural scenery, climate, landforms, terrain, flora, fauna, bodies of water, and water supply.

Infrastructure

Underground and surface developmental constructions that make business activity possible and support superstructure, including water supply, sewage disposal, electricity, drainage, highways, bridges, and stations.

Superstructure

Above-ground facility services where business activities occur, such as airport buildings, terminals, hotels, motels, resorts, restaurants, shopping malls, and museums.

Transportation Equipment

Facilities used for moving people or goods, including ships, airplanes, trains, buses, limousines, taxis, automobiles, cog railways, cable cars, jeepneys, tricycles, and Tuk-Tuk vehicles.

Hospitality Resources

The general feeling of welcome and warmth received by visitors from the host population and service providers, which determines tourist satisfaction and word-of-mouth recommendations.

Tourism Supply Chain (TSC)

A network of tourism organizations engaged in different activities ranging from the supply of components to the distribution and marketing of the final tourism product.

Tier 1 Suppliers

First-tier direct service providers in the tourism supply chain—such as accommodation, transportation, and excursion operators—that assemble services or deal with tour operators and agents.

Tier 2 Suppliers

Secondary suppliers that provide essential products and services to first-tier suppliers, including food/drink manufacturers, equipment/furniture manufacturers, and waste recycling and disposal services.