The document outlines the tertiary sector and its various components, including transport, tourism, trade, telecommunications, banking, education, and healthcare. It distinguishes between upper-end and lower-end services, emphasizing the characteristics, classification, and importance of information and communication services. Additionally, it discusses disparities in access to education and healthcare between developed and less developed countries.

1. THE TERTIARY
SECTOR: OTHERS
María Jesús Campos Fernández.
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4. Tertiary
Sector
Transport
Tourism
Trade
Telecommunications
Banking
Education and Culture
Healthcare System
Others (lower-end tertiary sector):
domestic work; street vending…

5. Tertiary Sector
 Definition: tertiary sector; services
 Diversity:
 Tertiary sector vs quaternary sector
 Upper-end tertiary sector
 Lower-end tertiary sector
 Characteristics: heterogeneous; intangible and inmaterial; imposible to store; close to the
consumer; low level of mechanisation; expanding; unequal distribution
 Classification:
 Public services
 Distribution services
 Business services
 Consumer services
 Transport
 Tourism
 Trade
 Telecommunications
 Banking
 Education and culture
 Healthcare System

6. Information and Communication
Services

7. Information and Communication
Services
 Definition: information and communication services;
telecommunication
 Types of Communication: Person-to-person, social
communication or mass media, the Internet
 Spain

8. Means of Communication
 Person-to-person
 Social
communication or
mass media
 The Internet

9. Banking and Financial
Services

10. Financial Services
 Activities and
businnesses related
to the management
of money:
 Investment
 Loans
 Savings

11. Financial System
 Institutions, instruments
and practices that enable
transfers of money to
take place:
 Banks: attract money
from savers and lend it at
an interest.
 Insurance companies:
cover risks to people and
goods in exchange for
regular payments.
 Investment funds:
people contributes to this
funds (invest) which are
administered by company
managers.

12. International Funds and Bodies
 World Bank: financial
assistance to
developing countries
 International
Monetary Fund:
promotes economic
cooperation and
assistance to
developing countries
 European Central
Bank: maintains the
stability of prices in
the Eurozone.

13. Education and Culture

14.  Access to education
generally is only a
reality for people living
in the most developed
countries.
 Education can be:
 Public: managed by
the state
 Private: managed by
private companies or
organizations.
 Mixed: paid by the
state and by private
organizations.

15. Healthcare System

16. Developed countries vs Less
developed countries
 The right to healthcare
generally is only a
reality for people living
in the most developed
countries.
 In most developed
countries the state
ensures that everyone
has access to healthcar
by making it a public
service funded by
taxes.
 In less developed
countries the state is
often unable to offer
basic healthcare
services.
 Infectious diseases
(AIDS, tuberculosis and
malaria) are much more
common. Even
diseases that can be
easily prevented are
common because of
the lack of potable
water, acces to
sanitation, little access
to medication and
vaccines.

17. 2000

18. Personal Services

19.  Domestic staff
 Assistance to the
elderly at home or in
centres
 Child care at nursery
schools
 Maintenance and
repair (painters,
electricians,
mechanics...)
 Independent
professional services
from lawyers and
architects.
 Other…

20. Developed by María Jesús Campos
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