The Relationship of Tourism and hospitality

- The hospitality industry is an industry that offers services

that usually cost extra income to enjoy and include things
like hotels, restaurants, transportation, and leisure
activities.

- The tourism is the act of travelling to a destination for

pleasure purposes.

The main difference refers to where those individuals work.

With a tourism degree, you can work at state or national park,
in a museum or a private tour companies. Those with a
hospitality degree typically work in hotels, motels and resorts.
 The Tourism and Hospitality Industry Component

1. The food and beverage component

The public looks for food and beverage services everywhere – in

hotels, motels, airlines, airports, cruise ships, trains, and
shopping malls, aside from restaurants, taverns, bars, kiosks,
vending machines, supermarkets, food stalls, food carts, and
food trucks now offer food and beverage services.
1. The lodging component -Lodging involves providing overnight or even long-term services to guests.

- Lodging is a place to sleep

-Lodging facilities not only provide beds but also entertainment and recreational facilities (often done for
entertainment). Lodging facilities such as inns, motor hotels are hotels and motels that use different names,
there are lodging establishments that are use different terms such as bed and breakfast, resort hotel, resort
condominium, conference center, and time sharing.

In other countries, there are lodging establishments such as the parador (an old Spanish monastery or
castle that was converted to a hotel:
1. Recreation and Entertainment Components -Entertainment originated from the
traditional duties of a host to entertain his or her guests, wether they are neighbors or
travellers from other places.

Many centuries ago, innkeepers, tavern- keepers, and their descendants have attended to
their guests needs for entertainment by talking to their guests. Other told stories. Some
provided games such as darts, backgammon or chess.

Nowadays, the concept of entertaining guests

1. Travel and Tourism Component

Travel and tourism are used together as an umbrella term to refer to

those business that provide primary services to travellers.
 (3) Three basic components of tourism which is known as the 3 A’s of tourism

1. Accessibility (reachability/transportation) Means reach ability to the place of destination

through various means of transportation. It should be regular, comfortable, economical and
safe.

Example: Airlines, railways, surface (road transportation) & water transportation

The transportation should be there for all kinds of tourists and destination
3. Attraction – it is considered as the most important basic component of tourism.
Local is another basic component of tourism. The locale may be used the holiday
destination and want it offers to the tourist. The holiday
 Travel Agencies and Tour Operators

Travel agencies and tour operators are modern additions to the travel and tourism world. Both have become
important in the survival of many businesses in the tour and hospitality industry.

A travel agent is one who sells travel services in a travel agency.

He or she sells travel services that are assembled by others into
“packages”

Tour operators are wholesalers who make the necessary contacts with hotels, airlines, and other providers of
travel services and devise packages which will appeal to retail buyers. They are volume purchasers who are able
to negotiate lower prices because of their high volume purchases. They are able to sell tour packages at a
cheaper price than the individual consumer