TOURISM MANAGEMENT TERMINOLOGY IN DETAIL

1. TOURISM MANAGEMENT -
TERMINOLOGY

2. • Tourism management is the process of overseeing and coordinating the
operations of businesses and organizations that are involved in the tourism
industry.

3. • Tour is a journey for pleasure in which several different places are visited.
• A tour operator is business set-up or an enterprise which selects various
components of tourism, prepares a tour product for a targeted market segment,
plans itineraries, and conducts tours and promotions for the tours . The tour
operator is responsible for booking the travel to the destinations, reserving
accommodations, planning the entire tour in terms of what to see and do, and
provide ancillary support to the tour.
Example of tour operator
Thomas Cook, a UK based travel company, established in 2007, provides a large
array of travel and tourism packages.
Kesari Tours and Travels, India offers group tours, specialty tours, and economy
tours.

4. • Tourist is a person who travels and visits places for pleasure and interest: Millions
of tourists visit Rome every year/a person who travels to a place for pleasure.
• Tourism is travelling with an objective. All tourism necessarily include travel but
all travel does not necessarily include tourism. travelling is a subset of tourism.
Tourism calls for coordination and cooperation between travel agents, tour
operators, and tourists.

5. • An Agent can be self-employed, work for an independent travel agency, or be
part of a Travel Agency Consortia.
• travel agent is a person whose job it is to arrange travel for end clients
(individuals, groups, corporations) on behalf of suppliers (hotels, airlines, car
rentals, cruise lines, railways, travel insurance, package tours). His task is to
simplify the travel planning process for their customers in addition to providing
consultation services and entire travel packages.
• A travel agency is a private retailer that sells travel-related products and services
to consumers. This includes package holidays as well as individual holiday
elements such as hotel rooms, flight tickets and travel insurance. Travel agency is
an agency engaged in selling and arranging transportation, accommodations,
tours, and trips for travelers & called also travel bureau.

6. • Travel is the movement of people between distant geographical locations. Travel
can be done by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or other
means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip.Travel can be
defined as movement from one place to another. It can also describe how objects
are unable to stay stagnant.
For example, nothing can travel at the speed of light, except for light; or sound
waves, which can travel through air and water. This lesson, however, will focus on
the activity of human travel, and why people need and want to go from place to
place.
• Travelling is going from the place of residence or work to another distant or a
neighbouring place by any means of transport. Routine commutation can be
termed as travelling.
• Traveller is relevant to any movement of a person irrespective of the distance
travelled i,e ranging from a small distance of only few kilometres for seeking of
the employment etc.

7. • Visitor − A non-residential person visiting the place.Visitor a person who visits, as
for reasons of friendship, business, duty, travel, or the like./someone who visits a
person or place.

8. • Ecotourism − It involves maintenance and enhancement of natural systems such as water, air,
woods and forests, and flora and fauna through tourism.
• Excursionist − Persons traveling for pleasure in a period less than 24 hours/Who visits the place
and come back within 24 hrs at their origin of the destination/a person who goes on an
excursion.
• Excursion
In Latin, the prefix ex- means "out of" and the verb currere means "to run."
When the two are put together, they form the verb excurrere, literally "to run out" or "to
extend."
Excurrere gave rise not only to excursion but also to excurrent (an adjective for things having
channels or currents that run outward) and excursus (meaning "an appendix or digression that
contains further exposition of some point or topic").
Other words deriving from currere include corridor, curriculum, and among newer words,
parkour.
An excursion is a journey or crossing, usually on foot, which has one or more purposes, which
may be: scientific, cultural, sports, educational, military, recreational or tourism for recreational
and sporting purposes to natural or rural areas is known as hiking.
An excursion is a trip by a group of people, usually made for leisure, education, or physical
purposes. It is often an adjunct to a longer journey or visit to a place, sometimes for other
purposes.

9. • LEISURE is related with time left over after work, rest, and household works
leisure is the time when an individual can do what he likes to refresh his/her
spirits. /Leisure means The free time when obligations are at a minimum and one
can relax.
• RECREATION is means a virility of activities that a person could choose to refresh
his/her sprit. It may include activities as diverse as a game of golf, travelling
abroad/ Recreation means The activities carried out during leisure time
• PLEASURE refers to experience that feels good, that involves the enjoyment of
something. It contrasts with pain or suffering, which are forms of feeling bad. It is
closely related to value, desire and action: humans and other conscious animals
find pleasure enjoyable, positive or worthy of seeking.

10. • Attraction − It is a physical or cultural feature of a place that can satisfy tourists’
leisure based need.
• Cultural Heritage − It is an expression of the manner of living developed by a
community and passed on from one generation to the next. It includes customs,
practices, places, objects, artistic expressions and values.
• Destination − It is a place the tourist visits and stays there for at least 24 hours.
The destination supports staying facilities, attractions, and tourist resources.
• Foreign Tourist − Any person visiting a country, other than that in which he/she
usually resides, for a period of at least 24 hours.
• Hiking − A long and vigorous walk on the trail.
• Intermediaries − They are the intermediate links between the form of goods and
services tourists do not require and the form of goods and services the tourists
demand.
• Itinerary − A documented plan of the tour.

11. • Site − It is a particular place bound by physical or cultural characteristics
• Skiing − It is a recreational activity and competitive winter sport in which the
participant uses skis to glide on snow.
• Snorkeling − It is the practice of swimming on or through a water body while
being equipped with a diving mask composed of a shaped tube called a snorkel.
• Terrain − It is a stretch of land, especially with regard to its physical features.
• Tourism Carrying Capacity − The maximum number of people that may visit a
tourist destination at the same time, without causing destruction of the physical,
economic, socio-cultural environment, and an unacceptable decrease in the
quality of visitors' satisfaction.
• United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) − It is the United Nations
(UN) agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable, and
universally accessible tourism.
• WTO − World Tourism Organization.