Business Travel Mini-Workshop Training (Part 1) Day 4

🙋Aloha Travel Practitioners.

Welcome to Day 4 of our Travel business mini-training/workshop.

📍For day 4;
You’ve heard the term “Travel and Tourism” and perhaps feel it’s kinda ambiguous; ambiguous; used to mean the same thing or say used interchangeably?

Ok… Let’s take a peek into Tourism, we’re starting with basic overview, descriptions, meanings, definitions, its relation to Travel, and comparisons to see if any difference between Travel and Tourism, and yes! Of course; it’s History!

Let’s delve in.

📍Question:
WHAT IS TOURISM ??

🎯Answer:
Tourism is a social, cultural, and economic phenomenon.

A product of modern social arrangements with provisions for use of commercial amenities, facilities, and services (also private in many instances) in pursuit of recreation, relaxation, and pleasure. It entails spending time away from home and/or a place of work in pursuit of business or recreation, relaxation, leisure, or both.

Descriptions:

Tourism is the act and process of spending time away from home, going on trips (short or long), and traveling for pleasure or business; it is also viewed as

• The theory and practice of touring,
• The business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists
• The business of operating tours, and
• The commercial organization and operation of holidays and visits to places of interest.

Definition:

Tourism may be defined as the movement of people from their usual environment/place of residence/place of work to another place for personal or business/professional purposes to return to their place of residence/work/usual environment within 24 hours to max 12 months (1 year).

The World Tourism Organization (WTO) specifically defined tourism as the practice of staying outside your usual environment for one year or less if it’s for leisure purposes or 24 hours or less if it’s for business purposes.

Summary:

This means a man and/or woman would leave his/her usual environment (residence/work), and utilize a form of transportation to travel (journey) from one point (place/location) to another point (location/place) within the country (domestic tourism) or outside the country (international tourism) either for leisure or business or both for at least 24hrs or less (if business purpose) and not more than 24months in either case (some countries differ on this criteria; opting to settle for max 30 days, 90 days, 180 days at any one time visit).

Please note children also qualify as tourists o.

Technical Question:
📍Does leaving my usual environment be it residence or workplace to another place using a form of transportation, carrying out the act of traveling to actualize pertinent reason(s) for embarking on the journey automatically qualify as Tourism?

Technical Answer:
👉NO!

Technical Reason:

It is possible to travel between locations and fail to meet tourism criteria and activities which would qualify or consider you a Tourist.

END.