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Tourism organizations rely on sociologists to understand how travel affects individuals, families, and societies. Sociologists help identify social factors influencing travel and explain why locals may resent tourists. They also provide insight into how travel patterns change as people progress through different life stages.
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The document discusses hotels as a product in the tourism sector, noting they provide facilities like bedrooms, restaurants, and meeting rooms, and their service level and ability to differentiate depends on price and grade. It also lists sectors of tourism like accommodation, attractions, transportation, and food/beverage. Finally, it outlines advantages of linkages like job creation and income, but also disadvantages like environmental damage, seasonality, and leakage.
Challenges and opportunities of inter sectoral linkages
The document discusses the opportunities and challenges of inter-sectoral linkages between the tourism industry and other local sectors. The opportunities include using local supplies to reduce costs and leakage while retaining income locally, as well as creating partnerships between the tourism industry and government/non-government organizations. The challenges are diseconomies of scale from inefficient policies that can increase production costs, and dependency on local sectors that makes the tourism industry vulnerable to internal supply shocks.
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The travel services sector involves a complex network of different organizations including travel agencies, online travel agencies, tour operators, and destination marketing organizations. Travel agencies act as intermediaries between travelers and suppliers while online travel agencies allow travelers to independently plan components of their trip online. Tour operators package and sell entire trips by working with different suppliers to offer trips at better rates than individual components. Destination marketing organizations promote and market specific destinations to travelers.
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The document discusses hotels as tourism products, including their facilities, service levels, ability to differentiate, pricing, image, and location. It also lists the main sectors of tourism as accommodation, adventure tourism and recreation, events and conferences, tourism services, travel trade/intermediaries, attractions, transportation, and food and beverage. Finally, it outlines advantages of linkages between tourism sectors as job creation, employment, income and infrastructure improvement, but also disadvantages such as overdependence, environmental damage, impacts on culture, seasonality, wage divides, leakage and repatriation of profits.
Visitor attractions in Caribbean Tourism
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Challenges facing the tourism industry
The tourism industry is fragile. It is very important that we learn about the challenges so we can respond to them
Trends and issues in Air transport
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Government role in creating linkages
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