THE MEANING AND IMPORTANCE OF TOURISM I

Learning Objectives:

1. To define tourism
2. To differentiate tourists from excursionists
3. To differentiate domestic tourism from international tourism
4. To differentiate inbound from outbound tourism
 Definition of Tourism

 The sum of the phenomena and relationships arising from the travel
and stay of non residents, in so far as they do not lead to permanent
residence and are not connected to any earning activity. - Prof.
Hunziker and Krapf of Berne University

 The temporary short-term movement of people (less than a year) to

destinations outside the places where they normally live and work,
as well as their activities during their stay at these destinations. –
Tourism Society in Britain
 The Defining Factors of Tourism

 Length of Stay
• “ For less than a year” - you have to be intending to come home again
• e.g: the visit is temporary and short term

Purpose of visit
• e.g: visiting friends and relatives, conventions, meetings, business, outdoor
recreation, entertainment

Distance travelled
•outside the usual environment;
 NOTE that:

All tourism should have some travel, but

not all travel is tourism.
 NOTE that:

• Travel comprises all journeys from one place to another. It

• includes all journeys made by people who enter a country for
• leisure, to work, reside, study or who just pass through a country
• without stopping.
 NOTE that:

 Tourists are away from home

The purpose of visit: activities associated with
tourism
The length of stay-temporary and short term
 The Tourist and Excursionist

Tourist is a person who travels to destinations

outside his/her residence and working place,
and stays for at least 24 hours, for the purpose
of leisure or business.

Excursionist is a temporary visitor staying less

than 24 hours in the destination visited and
not making overnight stay, for the purpose of
leisure or business.
 Examples:

1. A Canadian resident takes a short trip to

the USA without staying overnight.

2. A Hongkong resident goes to Macau to visit

his friends and relatives for 1 week.

3. A Malaysian resident takes a trip to

Singapore without staying overnight.
 Types of Tourism

Domestic
Tourism within a
country by people who
live in that country.
International
Tourism between countries.
A. Inbound – tourists leaving their country of origin to
travel to another country
B. Outbound – tourists entering a country from their
country of origin
 Examples:

Inbound : When Malaysian tourist arrive in the

Philippines for a business meeting.

Outbound: When Hongkong residents on

holiday from Hongkong to Paris.
 Identify:
Domestic vs international tourism Inbound vs outbound

1. When Hongkong residents trip to the

Philippines for leisure.

2. A wealthy Filipino young lady on a

month long trip to visit relatives in
England.

3. A French businessman from France

coming to Philippines for a month trying
to obtain new orders for table wine.
 Activity:

• The Ayanos are a Filipino couple who are in Malaysia on a two-week tour.
They’ve spent some more time in Sabah and now they’re in Malacca, touring
around and seeing the historical sights and beaches. They like to stay in
comfortable hotels. In a couple of days they will travel to Kuala Lumpur to
catch their return flight home to Philippines.

• In pairs, identify the type of tourism, if its an International tourism, write

also the type of IT and decide what it is specifically about people like the
Ayanos that make us think of them as tourists.