1.

Adventure: a type of niche tourism involving exploration or travel, with

a certain degree of risk (real or perceived) and which may require skills

and physical exertion.

2. Attraction: a place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its

inherent or exhibited, natural or cultural value, historical significance,

natural or built beauty, offering leisure and amusement.

3. Blue Flag: a certification by the foundation for the Environment

education that a beach or marina meets its standards in water quality,

safety, environmental education and information, the provision of

services and general environmental management criteria.

4. Carrying capacity: this is the maximum number of people that may visit

a tourists’ destination at a time without causing damage to the

environment.

5. Codes of Conduct: a set of rules outlining the social norms, religious

rules, and responsibilities of and or proper practices for, an individual,

party or organization.

6. Community tourism: tourism in which residents (often rural), poor and

economically marginalized invite tourists to visit their communities with

the provision of overnight accommodation.

7. Concessions: a reduction in the rate of taxation on import duties under

the Hotels Act in Jamaica.

8. Demonstration Effect: this is when residents of a country adopt

behaviors, whether by way of dress, language and conduct of another

country.

9. Domestic Tourism: this is where people engage in leisure activities

within their own country.

10. Doxey Irritation Model: this is when the attitude of local residents

change towards tourists and tourism development.

11. Eco-Labels: an independent verification of a company’s achievements

and can be used for marketing verifications of a company’s

achievement.

12. Economies of scale: this is where more goods and services are produced

on a larger scale with less input cost.

13. Fauna: the animals of a region, habitat or geological period.

14. Flora: the plant life occurring in a region or time, generally the naturally

or indigenous – native plant life.

15. Green Globe: a global certification for sustainable tourism. Membership

is reserved for companies and organizations who are committed to

making positive contributions to people and the planet.

16. Inbound Tourism: this is where a foreigner visits a given country, where

that person is considered a non-resident.

17. Incentives: these are a reward subject of an incentive program,

recognition program or a loyalty program, which is a business tool

designed to changed consumer behavior to improve profit, cash flow,

employee engagement and customer engagement.

18. Indicators: information sets which are formally selected for regular use

to measure changes in assets and issues that are key for tourism

development and management of a given destination.

19. Intergenerational equity: this involves the economic, social and

environment protection for future generations.

20. Intergenerational equity: this involves the economic, social and

environmental protection for future generations.

21. Intersectoral Linkages: this relates to the interaction between two or

more sectors, where individual sectors benefit from each other.

22. Intragenerational Equity: humans hold the natural and cultural

environment of the Earth in common, both with other members of the

present generation and with other generations, past and future.

23. Leakage: a way in which revenue generated by tourism is lost to

another country’s economy.

24. Legislation: this is the process of making laws. Laws should be

drafted and updated to punish those who endanger the environment.

25. Linkage: connections of inter-relation between separate entities.

26. Multiplier effect: This is where the money earned from the tourism

sector is injected into other sectors.

27. Outbound Tourism: this is where residents leave their country to

visit another.

28. Policy: this is a set of regulations, rules, guidelines, directives and

development/promotion objectives and strategies that provide a

framework within which the collective and individual decisions directly

affecting long-term tourism development and the daily activities within

a destination are taken.

29. Recreation: the pursuit of leisure activities during one’s spare time

and can include vastly different activities such as golfing, sport fishing.

30. Stakeholders: an individual or entity that may be impacted by

tourism or has the ability to influence tourism. E.g. Community members

31. Sustainable tourism: an industry committed to making a low impact on

the environment and local culture while helping to generate

employment for local people and community.spective while identifying

the organizations that influence and regulate tourism.

32. Tourism: this is an industry or business that caters to the

recreational needs of people within a country as well as visitors.

33. Tourist: a person who travels to places or countries outside their

usual environment for personal or business purposes for less than a

year.

34. Travel Trade: a sector within the tourism industry which involves

relationships between multiple suppliers, tourism products and

destination marketing organizations, tour operations. Travel services

comprise business and functions that assist with planning and

reservation components of the visitor experience.