Tourism

Taking a trip outside his/her usual environment, for less than a year

Visitor

Overnight stay in a country or place visited (domestic, inbound, or outbound)

Tourist

Does not spend even a night in a place of visit (same-day tourist)

Excursionist

Consists of tangible and intangible elements of a trip

Tourism product

Refers to movement of people or objects from one place to another

Travel

Refers to travel by a person from the time of departure from his usual residence until he/she return

Trip

An act of providing food, beverages, and lodging to travelers

Hospitality

Derived from the latin word hospes

Hospitality

Involves planning, organizing, directing, and controlling human and material resources within lodging, travel, and meeting convention planning industries

Hospitality management

Comprises businesses that provide accomodation, travel, food, and beverage to traveling public

Hospitality industry

Refers to department of personnel working with direct contact with guests

Front of the house

Refers to the department or personnel performing behind the scenes, such as housekeeping, finance, etc.

Back of the house

Social, cultural, economic phenomenon related to the movement of people to places outside their usual place of residence

Tourism

Involves residents of a given country travelling only within that country

Domestic tourism

Involves non-residents traveling to a given country

Inbound tourism

Involves residents of a country traveling to another country

Outbound tourism

Consists of inbound and outbound tourism.

International tourism

Forms of tourism

Domestic, inbound, outbound, and international tourism

Characteristics of a tourism product

Intangibility, inseparability, perishability, variability, absence of ownership, manufactured by many producers, seasonality

Tourism products cannot be directly seen, tasted, felt, or heard. Tourism product can be anything like a package tour or an airline ticket

Intangibility

Tourism products are primarily services, and they cannot be separated from the person or the company that provides them.

Inseparability

A characteristics of products and services that do not allow for the product or service to be stored for sale at a future date.

Perishability

In the tourism industry, services are rendered by humans to humans.

Variability

Purchasing overnight stay at a hotel is not the same as buying material things.

Absence of ownership

A tourism product involves other sectors in its production, and a single enterprise cannot provide it.

Manufactured by many producers

It refers to predictable changes over a year in a business or economy based seasons, including calendar or commercial seasons.

Seasonality