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BX2091 - Lecture02a
BX2091 - Lecture02a
Session 2:
Tourism as a System
Learning Outcomes
• Understand the basic concept of a tourism system
• Identify and evaluate the various individual elements of the tourism system and their relationships
• Define the term ‘tourist’ and describe three criteria that can be used to define tourists
• Appreciate the distinctions between generating, transit and destination regions in tourism
• Explain the term 'tourism industry’ and briefly describe its components
2
1 A Generating Region
3
A Tourist A Transit Region
5 4
A Tourism Industry A Destination
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BX2091:03 Tourism Management 5
Leiper’s Tourism System
• Leiper’s (1995) Model
Environments: human, sociocultural, economical, technological,
physical, political, legal, etc...
1. Departing Tourists
TR3
TDR3 TDR2
TR4
TR2
Transit Generating
Route Region
Destination Industry
Region
Nomads
Diplomats
Migrants
Stayovers Excursionists
Refugees
Routine trips
1 2 3 4
International Domestic International Domestic
stayovers stayovers excursionists excursionists Stopovers
Tourist terms used in your textbook Tourist terms used by the WTO
Spatial
Temporal Purposive
• Others
– Sport
– Spiritual & health
– Education
Nomads
Diplomats
Migrants
Stayovers Excursionists
Refugees
Routine trips
1 2 3 4
International Domestic International Domestic
stayovers stayovers excursionists excursionists Stopovers
Factors
• Social Change
• Technological Change
• Environmental Change
• Economic Change
• Political Change