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Nature and Scope of Tourism
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Nature of Tourism
The nature of tourism is closely connected with travelling. It has been a human phenomenon since the beginning of human civilization. It is a sensitive factor of the human nature in the context of moving to survive, explore and to know the unknown. In the early times, they started travelling as nomads in search of prey and food. Later the development of the agricultural system created a base of the movement of people as a traveler. Then the output of industrial revolution made travelling prominent to various destination. It made the traveler lifestyle easier and safer to realize their tourism activities.
Thus, the modern tourism is absolutely changed due to complete development of over all sectors of tourism components and consciousness of the people. The nature of tourism is described in the following heading:-
Tourism and service:-Tourism is a service industry, which is composed of those sector of economy that are involved in providing service, such as accommodation, food and beverage, transportation and recreation as well as distribution and sales services.
Tourism Industry has been taken as the term that denotes work, productivity, employment income, economic growth, social development etc. but it does not produce any commodity which cannot be touched or taken home. Hence tourism is a hospitality industry and bridge between people. It makes a valuable contribution to the words economy by employing more people than any other industry.
Tourism is a contributor to the economy: –Through Tourism, a great deal of income is generated in economy in the form of domestic or international exchange. a large chunk of workforce gets employed in this industry. It is also a major contributor to the public revenue. The nature too can be conserved owing to tourism. The natural resources of the economy can be tapped and the friendly relation with other countries can result in the benefit of the economy.
Tourism compromise of various industrial businesses: – Tourism can be defined as the activities of the tourists and those who cater for them. Therefore, it is evident from the above definition that tourist alone are insufficient for the tourism industries. The existence of the other components is equally crucial for the proper functioning of the industry. Hence the co-existing of diverse business organizations makes this industry possible. Therefore, it is also regarded as smokeless industry/sectional industry/decentralized industry/or legitimate industry.
Tourism products are highly perishable: – the intangible product in tourism i.e., service is very short lived. It is not possible to store like tangible products. Hence, if the service is not rendered within a definite time frame, then the return trends to be zero, or even negative. Such lost revenue can never be recovered.
Tourism is related with luxuriousness: – tourism is an activity undertaken by the people during leisure for pleasure. Hence, tourism activities are almost non-existent among the low income group with a low purchase capacity. It is a luxurious concept primarily associated with the affluent and high class people having higher purchasing power. Therefore, we normally find the people from the rich countries mostly undertaking the tourism activities.
Tourism products are stationary: – in tourism industry the attraction inspire the aspirations of the tourists. The attractions, such as the mountains, lakes, historical monuments, museum, them and fun parks, George, valleys, waterfalls, climate and seasons, flora and fauna etc. are something which cannot be copied or imitated by any other countries. At the same time they are immobile. a prospective tourist need to approach these beauties and not vice a versa.
Tourism is an incessant industry: – there is no any horizon or end to the tourism activities. Creative minds can always come up with new ideas and creativity. In tourism industry there is non-stop movement of people and incessant move give rise to more tourism activities.
Tourism is an inspiration to the motivation of life style: – Tourism inspires the people to exchange the life style, technically and scientifically, as it insists their desires to experience a change and willingness to spend money and time. Tourism inspires the traveler to get the new ideas both positive and negative and aspires to adopt in one’s own life.
Tourism helps in educating the mass: – There exists a spontaneous process of learning and exchange of ideas in the industry, the scope of explorations and discovery is very high among adventure tourist. Due to tourism there exists a respect for each other’s religious belief, cultural values, traditions, rights and rituals.
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3. Significance of Tourism
Tourism is important to the world because of the amount of income it brings into countries and it promotes interconnectedness throughout the world. It provides people visiting the country of their choice with the services while they are there in exchange for the visitors boosting the country’s economy. It helps provide jobs to the residents of the country that are being visited not only in the tourism and service industry, but also in the manufacturing industry as many people leave their vacation destination with souvenirs in hand.
Tourists tend to have disposable income that they spend in the country they are visiting. They also, on the whole, have more leisure time with which they use on numerous, shorter vacations throughout the year. Most tourists are well educated with sophisticated tastes which have resulted in the demand for better service and products. Many tourists also travel with their families, resulting in the need for more family-oriented vacation spots as well as niche destinations for other demographics, such as water sports vacations and spa resorts.
Even with the natural disasters that have plagued the world recently and the tragedy of 9/11, people are still traveling all over the world to see the sights and experience what other countries have to offer. Sustainable tourism and ecotourism have become popular with tourists who are attempting to reduce their own carbon footprint and leave the world a better place for future generations.
Tourists interested in helping poor countries have become involved in pro-poor tourism where they visit these countries and work towards bettering the lives of the people they meet there while on vacation. Educational tourism has become popular with many colleges and universities who plan trips overseas to a foreign country and award their students with credit hours for participating in the planned tours.
All of these forms of tourism allow the country that is being visited to benefit in some way, whether it is economically or socially.
