CONCEPTS AND ISSUES

INTRODUCTION TO TOURISM LINKAGES

Questions
 QUESTIONS1. What are the sectors involved in Tourism?
 2. What is the importance of inter-sectoral linkages
 3. What are 2 core sectors closely linked to tourism.
 4. What can “attractions” be best described as.
 5. What are four(4) tourism linkages?
 Sectors in tourism

The tourism industry has been divided into 8 sectors. The 8

sectors are listed below:
 Accommodation
 Adventure Tourism and Recreation
 Attractions
 Events and Conference
 Food and Beverage
 Tourism Service
 Transportation
 Travel Trade
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SECTORS

 ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation is one of the largest and fastest
growing sectors in the tourism industry. It is
also a concern of every traveler, whether
looking for a place to pitch a tent or a luxury
suite in a fancy hotel. Booking
accommodation, dealing with the vast array of
accommodation options, and considering
alternative lodging options are all issues
travelers face.
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 ADVENTURE TOURISM AND RECREATION

This sector is like accommodation, its growing fast.
Changing trends in travel and tourism, where clients
request active, recreational experiences or travel
adventures where they can learn about culture and
nature, are driving the growth. This sectors includes
everything from bird watching to salmon fishing, horse
back riding to white water rafting, golf to wilderness
trekking. Adventure tourism and recreation draws those
who want to experience Jamaica as a place of nature,
and those who want active and unusual vacations.
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 ATTRACTIONS
A tourist attraction is a place of interest where tourists
visit, typically for its inherent or an exhibited
natural or cultural value, historical significance,
natural or built beauty, offering leisure and
amusement. Examples are: historical places,
monuments, ancient temples, zoos, aquaria,
museums and art galleries, botanical gardens,
buildings and structures (such as forts, castles,
libraries, former prisons, skyscrapers, bridges),
theme parks and carnivals, living history
museums, public art and water parks.
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 EVENTS AND CONFERENCE

This contributes dollars to communities.
Not only do travelers spend money on
events and conference itself, but
‘spinoff dollars’ are spent on
everything from accommodation to
souvenirs. Examples are: special
events, conference, meetings, trade
shows and convention.
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 FOODS AND BEVERAGE

The food and beverages industry is all
companies involved in processing raw
food materials, packaging, and distributing
them. This includes fresh, prepared foods
as well as packaged foods, and alcoholic
and nonalcoholic beverages. Any product
meant for human consumption, aside from
pharmaceuticals, passes through this
industry.
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CON.

Its also one of the largest sectors in tourism.

Approximately 50% of the tourism workforce is
employed in in food and beverage. This includes
full service restaurants, pubs, bars, catering service
and institutional food services like school and
hospital. Jobs includes chef, waiters, bartenders,
night club managers, baker, dining room managers
and caterers.
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 TOURISM SERVICE
This sector promotes and supports the tourism industry. It
is made up of departments in the federal, provincial
and local government that promote and regulate
tourism. It includes association, market researchers,
the media, consultants and manufacturers. Enterprises
such as information centers, gift shops, duty free
shops and travel insurance agencies. Jobs in this
sector includes: Canada Custom Agencies, Minister
of Tourism, and departmental employees, information
center workers, travel writers and tourism teachers.
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 TRANSPORTATION
This provides tourists with a way to get
from one destination to another. This
includes airlines, railroads, cruise
lines, bus and boat tours, car rental
companies, etc. This includes about
20% of the tourism work force. Jobs
includes: pilots, reservation agent,
cruise director, baggage handler, air
traffic controller and bus/boat
operator.
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SECTORS CON.
 TRAVEL TRADE
The travel trade sector supports the bookings and sales in the
other sectors. The people that work in the travel make
reservations for accommodations, tours, transportation, food
and beverage and for attractions. These bookings can be in
the form of an all-encompassing tour package or a single
booking for a single traveler.
CORE SECTORS CLOSELY LINKED
TO TOURISM

 AGRICULTURE
The potential contribution of tourism to the well-
being of rural communities in developing
countries involves the agricultural
development of economic linkages.
Agriculture provides not only the tourism
industry resources for food consumption but
also the background for attractions in rural
environments. Farming systems often consist
of a range of interdependent gathering,
production and post-harvest processes, so
that, besides farming, rural household
livelihoods can encompass various activities
in other key agricultural sub-sectors
including livestock, agro-forestry and fishing
and aquaculture.
CORE SECTORS CLOSELY LINKED
TO TOURISM

 CRAFT
'Craft' is evocative of the local
history, culture and tradition, and
thus is inextricably linked to the
tourism product and experience of
the locality from which it
originates. The craft tells the story
of the place and its people,
thereby generating interest and
potentially repeat visits.
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TO TOURISM

 FISHING
Fishing tourism can be defined as
a set of activities carried out by
professionals in order to
differentiate their incomes,
promote and valorize their
profession and sociocultural
heritage, and enhance a
sustainable use of marine
ecosystems, by means of boarding
non-crew individuals on fishing
vessels.
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TO TOURISM

 MANUFACTURING
The term manufacturing refers to the processing of raw
materials or parts into finished goods through the use of
tools, human labor, machinery, and chemical processing.
Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has said that
Jamaica’s economy stands to benefit greatly once local
producers are able to adequately meet the demands of the
country’s growing tourism industry.
“The demand created by tourism can be a catalyst to the
productive sector. The value of food inputs in the tourism
industry is US$500 million. We want a significant amount
of these food items to be supplied locally,”
CORE SECTORS CLOSELY LINKED
TO TOURISM

 ENTERTAINMENT
Entertainment is a form of activities that take away
people's stress basically come from work or school
and give them properly amusement to relax. In
tourism industry, entertainment is a very important
sector. Tourists would love to visit some specific
places such as movie theaters, water park, Carnival
and so on. An entertainment destination was defined
as a venue where people go to enjoy entertainment
activities, such as concerts, musicals, medieval
festivals, magic perform- ance, circus, comedy, sport
events, theatre, dancing, clubbing and theme park
visit.
INTERSECTORAL
LINKAGES

Inter-sectoral linkages relates to the interaction between two or

more sectors, e.g. education, health, food security/nutrition,
shelter, and protection. In the context of the education
sector, these linkages are normally actions taken in
partnership with other sectors outside the education sector.
importance of inter-sectoral
linkages.

Intercompany linkage defines the interaction between different

firms (e.g., between two hotel chains). ... In contrast,
intersectoral linkage refers to cooperation between firms
operating in different sectors of the tourism complex:
tourism service and tourism manufacturer (e.g., between
yacht manufacturers and operators).