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The document discusses the meaning and importance of tourism and hospitality, defining both terms and explaining their interrelationship. It outlines the components of the tourism and hospitality industry, including food and beverage services, lodging, recreation, and travel-related services. Additionally, it emphasizes tourism as a temporary movement of people and hospitality as the act of receiving guests.

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Rfc Module1 Th6 Mpth2

The document discusses the meaning and importance of tourism and hospitality, defining both terms and explaining their interrelationship. It outlines the components of the tourism and hospitality industry, including food and beverage services, lodging, recreation, and travel-related services. Additionally, it emphasizes tourism as a temporary movement of people and hospitality as the act of receiving guests.

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“THE MEANING AND

IMPORTANCE OF
TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY”
OBJECTIVE

• define tourism and


hospitality;
• explain the relationship of
tourism and hospitality;
• discuss the components of
tourism and hospitality.
Macro Perspective of hospitality and tourism

-Is a form of analysis which focuses on the


structure HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM and
provides a way of seeing these Two industries
as a unified WHOLE.
The components of Tourism
THE and Hospitality Industry
RELATION
SHIP OF • Food and Beverage
TOURISM services
AND • Lodging Services
HOSPITALI
TY • Recreation services
• Travel-related (tourism)
services
THE These components
RELATION constitute the tourism and
SHIP OF hospitality network.
TOURISM
AND “Network” means a
HOSPITALI
TY complicated
interconnection of parts or
components.
NO. 1
Macro Perspective of Tourism and Hospitality
Food and
Beverage
Component

The public looks for food


and beverage services
everywhere – in hotels,
motels, airlines, airports,
cruise ships, trains
shopping malls.

•Commercial Restaurants
• Fast service restaurant
• Ethnic restaurants
• Specialty restaurants
The Lodging Component

Lodging involves providing overnight or even


Lodging facilities
long-term servicessuch as inns, motors hotels, lodges, or
to guests.
motor inns are hotels and motels that use different names.
• A place to sleep Customer preferences –
There are lodging
• Entertainment establishments that use different terms
from budget
such as bed and breakfast, resort hotel, to motels to
resort condominium,
• Recreational facilities luxury hotels and
conference center and time-sharing.
expensive resorts
There are lodging establishments that offer special facilities
such as ski lodges and casino hotels
The Lodging Component

Lodging establishment in other countries:

Parador
- a French or Italian home in which guests are
provided with a room and board.
Parador de Alcala de Henares
The Lodging Component

Lodging establishment in other countries:

Chateau
- a French castle or elegant country home used as a
hotel
The Lodging Component

Lodging establishment in other countries:

Ryokan
- a Japanese inn in which traditional customs are
observed.

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA


The Lodging Component

Lodging establishment in other countries:

Hostel
- -a lodging facility in which inexpensive
accommodations are provided to students and guests
on a non-profit basis.
Recreation and Entertainment
Component

•Entertainment originated from the traditional


duties of a host to entertain his or her guests,
whether they are neighbors or travelers from
other places.

•Guests are offered different kinds of


entertainment and recreational activities such
as golf, tennis, hiking, boating, swimming,
handball, casino gambling, and concerts.
Travel and Tourism
Component
Travel and tourism are used together as an
umbrella term to refer to those businesses that
provide primary services to travelers. These
include not only food and beverage services,
lodging services, recreation and entertainment
services, but also transportation services, and
the services of travel agencies and tour
operators.
Travel and Tourism
Component
Transportation

The main purpose of transportation is


to make it possible for people to go from
on place to another.
Travel and Tourism
Component

A travel agent

is one who sells travel services in a


travel agency.
Travel and Tourism
Component
Tour operators

are wholesalers who make necessary


contacts with hotels, airlines, and other
providers of travel services and devise
packages which will appeal to retail
buyers.
DEFINITION OF
TOURISM
1.Professors Hunziker and krapf of Berne
University, Switzerland.

They defined tourism as the “sum of the


phenomena and relationships arising from the
travel and stay of non-residents, insofar as they
do not lead to permanent residence and are not
connected to any earning activity.”
DEFINITION OF
TOURISM
2. Definition of the Tourism Society in Britain:

“Tourism is the temporary short-term movement


of people to destinations outside the places
where they normally live and work and their
activities during their stay at these destinations.”
DEFINITION OF
TOURISM
3. The definition was formulated by the Tourism
Society in Cardiff:

‘’Tourism may be defined in terms of particular


activities selected by choice and undertaken
outside the home environment”.
DEFINITION OF
TOURISM
Burkart and Medlik (1997) cited five main
characteristics of tourism:

1.Because of it’s complexity, tourism is a


combination of phenomena and relationships;
2.It has the two essentials elements: the dynamic
element or the journey and the static element
or the stay;
DEFINITION OF
TOURISM
3. The journey and stay are to-and-from
destinations outside the place of residence and
work;

4. The movement to destinations is temporary


and short-term, with the intention to return
within few days, weeks, or months; and
DEFINITION OF
TOURISM
5. Destinations are visited for purposes not
connected with paid work, that is, not to be
employed and not for business or vocational
reasons.
DEFINITION OF HOSPITALITY

The word “hospitality” is derived from the Latin


A host is prepared to meet a guest’s basic
word hospitare, which means “to receive as a
requirements while the guest is away from home.
guest.”
• Food
• Beverages
• Lodging
• Shelter
DEFINITION OF HOSPITALITY

Several related words come from the same Latin


root:

Hospital Hospice
Hostel

The principal meaning is a host who receives,


welcomes, and caters to the needs of people who
are temporarily away from their homes.
Meaning of Tourist

In 1937, the League of Nations defined


“tourist” as follows: “a tourist is a person who
visits a country other than that in which he or
she usually resides for a period of at least 24
hours.”
Meaning of Tourist
This definition covers two classes of visitors:

In 1963,Temporary
1.Tourists. a United Nations
visitors stayingConference
at least 24 on
International
hours. Travel and Tourism
recommended a new definition of a visitor as
• any
Leisure, such visiting
person as recreation, holiday,other
a country health,than
study, that
religion, or sport;
of earning money.
• Business;
• Family;
• Mission; and
• Meeting
Meaning of Tourist

2. Excursionists.
At present, most countries of the world accept
Temporary
definitions of visitors staying
visitor, tourist, less
and than 24 hours
excursionist that
in the destination
evolved out of the UNvisited and on
Conference notInternational
making an
overnight
Travel stay, including
and Tourism cruise
held in Rome travelers, but
in 1963.
excluding travelers in transit.
SUMMARY

Tourism and hospitality is one of the world’s


largest and fastest growing industries. It
contributes greatly to global economic
development. The components of this large
industry may be independent and competitive
businesses; yet they are interrelated and
interdependent.
SUMMARY

The components of the tourism and


hospitality network are: food and
beverage services, lodging services,
recreation and entertainment services
and travel and tourism services.
SUMMARY
Tourism is the temporary, short-term
movement of people to destinations
outside the places where they normally
live and work and their activities during
their stay at these destinations. The word
hospitality is derived from the Latin word
“hospitare” which means to receive as a
guest
ACTIVITY

Select a local tourist attraction. It could be


a historic site, museum, park, beach area,
or shopping center that caters to tourists.
Write one-page report describing the
features of this attraction that actually
draw tourists.
ACTIVITY
Discussion questions. Write your answer on a
separate sheet of paper.

1.Explain the relationship of tourism and


hospitality.
2.Describe the components of the tourism and
hospitality network.
3.Define tourism.
4.Explain the meaning of hospitality.
5.How do tourists differ from excursionists?

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