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DEPARTMENT NAME : MBA

COLLEGE NAME : MAHARAJ VIJAYARAM GAJAPATHIRAJ COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

SUBJECT NAME : TOURISM & HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT

NAME : PEDADA SUNIL KUMAR

REGISTERED NUMBER : 20331E0080


TOPIC :- TYPES OF PLEASURE / PERSONAL
TRAVELERS

What is Tourism?
• Tourism involves the activities of people travelling and staying in a
place away from their home environment for leisure, business or
other purposes.
• Mathieson and Wall (1982) define tourism as follows −
"The temporary movement of people to destinations outside their
usual places of work and residence, the activities undertaken during
their stay in those destinations, and the facilities created to cater to
their needs."
Traveller Meaning and Types
• Traveller - a person who is travelling or who often travels

Classification of travelers . Based on purpose of travel

A. Business Travellers
B. Pleasures / Personal Travellers
Pleasure / Personal Travellers
• Pleasure Travellers - The group consists of people travelling for
vacation or pleasure. They are also called non- business travellers .

• Types of pleasure travellers :-


• This kind of travellers are classified into the following categories :
1. Resort Travellers
2. Family Pleasure Travellers
3. The Elderly
4. Singles and Couples
1. Resort Travellers-
surveys have shown that resort travellers are better educated,
have higher house- hold incomes , and are more likely to have
professional and managerial positions.

2. Family Pleasure Travellers- divided into 3 groups .


• The junior families – Parents aged 20-34 and having a pre-school
children only.
• Mid range families – Parents aged 35- 44 with grade or high school
children.
• Mature families – Parents aged 45 and over with children who are
of higher school age and older.
3. The Elderly- these age the travellers age are “ 50plus”.

4. Singles and couples – they take their vacations to fulfil their


psychological, intellectual, and physical needs by giving them the
opportunity to rest, relax escape the routine of pressures of daily
living, enjoy the naturalness of life, and to express total of freedom.
Thank you

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