TOURISMTHEORY AND PRACTICE

Presented by:Jonnathan Martínez Ochoa

Presented to:Hector García

INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS TOURISMThe amorphous nature of tourism has made it difficult to structureits «definition» academic writers give their own as follows

THE TOURISM LIKE A ECONOMY ACTIVITY

• Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. In 2008, there were over 922 million international tourist arrivals, with a growth of 1.9% as compared to 2007. International tourism receipts grew to US$944 billion (euro 642 billion) in 2008, corresponding to an increase in real terms of 1.8%.

Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than twenty-four hours and 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.

DEFINITION OF TOURISM

The temporaly movement of people to destinations outside their normal places of work and residence, the activities under taken during their stay in those destinations, and the facilities created to cater to their needs.

Mathieson and Wall.

The sum of the phenomena and relationships arrising from the interaction of tourists, business suppliers, host goverments and host comunities in the process of atracting and hosting these tourists and other visitors.

Macintosh and Goeldener.

SUPPLY AND DEMAND

• Is the relationship between the quantity that producers wish to sell at various prices and the quantity of a commodity that consumers wish to buy.

• Demand depends on the price of the commodity, the prices of related commodities and consumers incomes and tastes.

TRANSPORT

• Time and Money: This is the critical component to tourism, the ability to get from Point A to Point B and back, or to Point C, D, E.... The variables of Time, how long it takes to get to a specific destination, and Money, how much it costs to get to your destination. Tourism developments are dependent on the ease of access and types of transportation available.

TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS• Stagecoach (1500 A.D.) Invented in Hungary.• Railroads (1825)First passenger train was in

England.• Boats & Ships (early 400 B.C.)• Automobile (1908) Henry Ford's Model T• Air Travel (1919) by what is now know as

Lufthansa Airline.