Tourism in Business

(TRS041)
Aishath Shany Habeeb|MNUBS|HC
shany.habeeb@mnu.edu.mv
Introduction to
Tourism
Chapter One

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Tourism

‘Tourism comprises the activities of persons travelling to

and staying in places outside their usual environment for
not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business or
other purposes’ - WTO, 1992 – Endorsed by UN’s Statistical
Commission, 1993

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Tourism

‘Tourism is a temporary short term movement of people to

destinations outside the places where they normally live
and work, and activities during their stay at these
destination; it includes movement for all purposes, as well
as day visits or excursions’ (Aiest, 1981)

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Tourism

‘The sum of the phenomena and relationships arising from

the travel and stay of non-residents, in so far as they do not
lead to permanent residence and are not connected to any
earning activity’- Professor Hunziker and Krapf,1942

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Characteristics of Definition

1. Overnight stays and also day visits

2. Travel for different purposes

3. All tourism include travel, all travel is not tourism

4. All travel and tourism trips are temporary movements

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Visitor

‘Any person visiting a country other than that in which he

has his usual place of residence, for any reason other than
following an occupation remunerated from within the
country visited’.- UNWTO

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Classes of Visitor

Tourist – a temporary visitors staying at least 24 hours,

whose purpose could be categorized as leisure (whether
for recreation, health, sport, holiday, study or religion) or
business, family, mission or meeting

Excursionists – a temporary visitors staying less than 24

hours, including cruise travelers but excluding travelers in
transit

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Tourism Industry in Maldives

Tourism Industry in Maldives

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Forms of Tourism
Business Tourism- Traveling for work related purposes.

Eco Tourism- Form of tourism involving visiting fragile,

pristine and relatively undisturbed natural areas, intended
as a low-impact and often small scale alternative to
standard commercial (mass) tourism.
Medical Tourism – For medical treatment with lower cost or
to enjoy vacation with medical purposes.

Religious Tourism – Travel for pilgrimage, missionary or

fellowship.

Adventure Tourism – Involves exploration and visitation to

remote, exotic and hostile areas and taking part in less
risky activities
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Trends in the Tourism Industry

• Tourism in extreme environemnts

• Millennial tourism (1980-2000)
• Retired people
• Luxury travelers
• Conspicuous leisure
• LGBT
• Multi-generational travel
• B-leisure
• Shopping tourism
• Culinary tourism

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Nature of Tourism

Motivation for a trip

• Motivation = Purposes
• Three distinct categories:
• Holidays (VFR)
• Business (MICE)
• Other (study, religious pilgrimage, sports, health
and so on)

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Nature of Tourism

Characteristics of a trip

• Define what kind of visit is made and to where

• Domestic and international
• Kind of destination chosen
• Length of time spent on a trip

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Nature of Tourism

Mode of Tour Organization

• A tour maybe independent or packaged

• Packaged tour is also called inclusive tour

• An arrangement in which transport and

accommodation are purchased by the tourist at
an all-inclusive price

• ‘dynamic package’ is the term used to describe

holidays that are put together as tailor-made
programs, whether by the operator, the retailer or
even by the holidaymakers themselves
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Nature of Tourism

Composition of the Tour

• Consists of the elements comprising the visit

• Accommodation

• Form of travel

• Ancillary services

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Nature of Tourism

Characteristics of the Tourist

• Identify the tourist in terms of nationality, social

class, sex, age and lifestyle

• Research focus more intently on personality and

lifestyle as characteristics which determine the
choice of holidays

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Tourism Destination
• ‘A tourism destination is a physical space in which tourist
spend at least one overnight. It includes tourism product
such as support services and attractions and tourist
resources within one day’s return travel time. It has
physical and administrative boundaries defining its
management, images and perceptions defining its
market competitiveness. Destinations incorporate
various stakeholders often including a host community,
and can nest and network to form larger destinations.
Destinations can only be on any scale, form a whole
country, a region, or an island, to a village, town or city,
or a self contained center’- UNWTO destination think
tank, December 2002
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Tourism Destination

Types of the Destination

• Destinations are of two kinds:

• Natural

• Constructed

• Destinations can be categorized under the following

headings

• Seaside tourism

• Rural tourism

• Urban tourism
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