THC 7 Lesson 1

Tourisme

French word of tourist

Tornos

Latin word of tourist

Tourist

The _______ seeks various psychic and physical experiences and satisfaction

Businesses

Business people sees tourism as an opportunity to make a profit by supplying the goods and services

Government

Politicians view tourism as a wealth factor in the economy of their jurisdiction

Host community

Local people usually see tourism as a cultural and employment factor

Tourism

It can be defined as the processes, activities, and outcomes arising from the relationship and the interactions among tourist, tourism suppliers, host community, etc. 

Tourism (1)

It comprises the activities of a person traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business, and other purposes. 

Traveler

Any person on a trip between two or more countries or between his/her locality

Same day visitors

Visitors who don't spend the night in a collective or private accomodation of the country visited. They are also called tripper or excursionist

Tourists

Visitors who stay in the country visited for atleast one night

Wonderlust

It describes the desire to exchange the known for the unknown, to discover new places, people and cultures. The strong force to travel of this category is curiosity.

Sun lust

It denotes the kind of travel to enjoy more facilities or attractions not present in one's own country. _______ lovers generally prefer adventure activities.

Physical motivators

This travel is made for physical relaxation and rest, sports and special medical treatment or health care etc

Cultural motivators

Increasing numbers of people are visiting different land having cultural importance and curiosity have been major reasons for people to travel

Interpersonal motivators

Under this, people travel with the purpose of meeting relatives or friends, or to escape from one's family workmates or neighbors for some time

Status and Prestige motivators

Under this, travel is made for personal development, upgrading social status, earning respect and honor etc.

Pleasure

People go out to travel for ________, getting free from regular work of daily life, to pass time cheerfully, to enjoy and pass their time with romantic experience.

Relaxation, rest, and recreation

Industrialization and urbanization have created great pressures on modern living. Therefore, people go to travel to get away from crowded city life, polluted environment mental and physical tension and enjoy fresh environment of peaceful places even for some time.

Health

Many people travel for _____ purpose. The benefits gained from fresh air and sunshine has long been recognized.

Participation in sports

There has been an increasing participation in a wide variety of sporting activities such as mountaineering, hiking, trekking, sailing, fishing etc.

Curiosity and Culture

These are connected with the people's desire to travel in order to learn about other countries and their people and their cultural heritage, art, cultural aspects etc.

Ethnic and Family

Many people travel with purpose of meeting their family member's friends and seeking new friendship.

Spiritual and Religious 

Visiting religious places has been one of the earliest motives for travel

Status and Prestige

People travel to achieve social respect, honor and prestige.

Mass tourism

It is a group travel to destination for purpose of leisure. It is the most popular form of tourism as it is often the cheapest way to holiday and often sold as a package tour.

(Type of Tourism)

Adventure tourism

It is the type of tourism involving exploration or travel with perceived risk and potentially requiring specialized skills and physical exertion.

(Type of Tourism)

Eco-tourism

It is responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people.

(Type of Tourism)

Sustainable tourism

It is the concept of visiting a place as a tourist and trying to make only positive impaction the environment, society and economy.

(Type of Tourism)

Recreational tourism

It is an activity of leisure, leisure being discretionary time. These activities are often done for enjoyment, amusement or pleasure and are considered to be fun.

(Type of Tourism)

Health/Medical tourism

It is the travel of people to another country for the purpose of obtaining medical treatment in that country. 

(Type of Tourism)

Convention tourism

A conference is the sense of meeting is a gathering of individuals who meet at an arranged place and time in order to discuss or engaged in some common interest.

(Type of Tourism)

Village and Urban tourism

It is the tourism activities in which village resources are fully utilized for the maximum satisfaction of their customers while ______ tourism is concerned with the city area.

(Type of Tourism)

Ethnic tourism

This type of tourism is concerned with the selling and organizing tours to visit indigenous society.

Cultural tourism

It is related to the tours to the culturally rich sites. The main objective of this tourism is to provide the knowledge of the culture of the region.

(Type of tourism)

Historical tourism

It is the tourism activities in which tourist can get different information and knowledge visiting historically importance places.

(Type of Tourism)

Domestic and International tourism

Domestic tourism focuses on the tourism within the country. It does not require visa formalities, and does not involve border formalities. It generates local currency and no foreign income. On the other hand, international tourism is concerned with foreign national and it generates foreign currency, which is the need of developing countries. It involves visa rules, border formalities and is more complicated than the domestic tourism.

(Type of Tourism)

Backpacking tourism

Backpackers experience transformation by having more self-awareness, on social issues such as cross-cultural awareness and understanding global issues better. (Type of Experience)

Volunteer tourism

This type of tourism is identified by most scholars as transformative via its altruistic motivation, cross-cultural encounters and immersion with locals

Educational travel

Intense cultural exchange in educational travel can trigger personal transformation leading to greater cross-cultural understanding and tolerance

Extreme sports

Activities that can lead to serious accident or death in the event of mistakes. Tourists who experience this have increased humility, enhanced spirituality and personal growth

Yoga travel

deeply transformational as it connects body, mind and spirit with the self

Cultural and Creative Tourism

Cultural tourism can be transformational as people experience awe fx 5 human ingenuity in the presence of great art works or heritage buildings.

Spiritual, retreat and religious tourism

Its transformational potential relates to the motivation of touris to search for the deeper understanding of the self and meaning of life.

Wellness and Health Tourism

The commentators on the transformative power of tourism often ident health tourism as potentially ripe with transformational opportunities.