 Tourism is just one form of activity undertaken during a period of leisure

 Leisure is defined as free time, or time at one’s disposal

 Excursionists- temporary visitors staying less than 24 hours
 UNWTO -Tourism comprises the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside
their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business or other
purposes.
 Second Home
The tourist product
1. Intangible
2. Psychological experience
3. Heterogeneity
4. Dynamic
5. Consumer must be brought to the product
6. No Standardization
‘selling holidays is like selling dreams’
The nature of tourism
The motivation for a trip
 Holidays (including visits to friends and relatives, known as VFR travel)
 Business (including meetings, conferences etc.)
 Other (including study, religious pilgrimages, sport, health etc.).

The characteristics of a trip

 Domestic
 International
 Day Trip or Excursion

Modes of tour organization

 Independent
 Packaged
 Dynamic package
The characteristics of the tourist
The composition of the tour  Gender
 Travel – Air/ Sea/ Road/ Rail  Life Cycle
 Accommodation  Personality
 Excursionist  Purpose of Travel
Varieties of destination
 ‘Natural’ or ‘constructed
 Geography – seaside, rural and urban

5 A’s of Tourism
1. Attraction
2. Amenities
3. Access
4. Accommodation
5. Activities
history of tourism
Introduction: the early years

1. Early human travel for Food, Survival and Finding new place
2. Babylonian and Egyptian empires, some three millennia BC – Mostly official not leisure
3. 1500 BC Religious travel – Egyptians visits to Pyramids – Religion and Pleasire
TOURISM RESOURCE INVENTORY
Why they want to travel to a particular destination?