Karla Herrera

Danitza Gonzales

Paola Campero

“Travel to and stay in places outside their usual

environment for not more than one

consecutive year for leisure, business and

other purposes not related to the exercise of

an activity remunerated from within the place

visited".

Travel :Action of moving outside

one s community.

lodging: stay in places outside one’s

usual environment.

Motivation: Purposes – NON profit

Temporality: Time limited (one year)

Use a medium of transport from home to destination AIR

CAR

SEA

TRAIN

“Economic distance” = space + time + cost

HOTEL

Camping

2nd house

1.-Leisure, recreation and vacations

“sun and sand”

2.- To visit relatives and friends

3.- Professional and businesses trips

4.- Health care trips

5.- Religion / pilgrimage

6.- Other reasons. (sports, art etc)

The utility which generate the tourism´s

companies , framed in the tertiary sector,

can be defined as the satisfaction of the

desire of the consumers to practice tourist

activities

the product that creates the companies is

not a material good but that usually consists

of the benefit of services

1, The lodging.

2. The restoration.

3. The recreation.

4. The intermediation and information.

5. The economic proceedings (currency exchange, insurances, ..).

6. The article sale.

7. The transport.

The tourism is a consumable good of relative luxury

Europa; 53

Asia-Pac; 20

Americas; 16

Africa; 5

Oriente M; 6

International tourism receipts grew to US$

856 billion (625 billion euros) in 2007,

corresponding to an increase in real terms of

5.6% over 2006.

Europe is the world’s largest and most mature destination region. over 54% of all international tourist arrivals- and

51% of international tourism receipts

International tourist arrivals increased by 5%, representing 488.4 mill. arrivals.

International tourism receipts grew at a slightly lower rate of 3% (in real terms) to US$ 433 billion (316 billion euros).