Week 2 - Micro Perspective

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MICRO

PERSPECTIVE
OF TOURISM
AND
Basic Definitions and Concepts in
Tourism and Hospitality

Week 1
TOURISM
AND
HOSPITALIT
Y
Define Hospitality
HOSPITALITY

★ This derived from the Latin


word hospitare, meaning “to
receive as a guest”
★ It refers to the act of
providing food, beverages or
lodging to traveling public.
Products or services
Descriptions Pricing strategy
Provide a detailed description of your Discuss your pricing strategy, including
products or services, highlighting their any discounts or promotions you offer.
features and benefits. Use images or Explain how you arrived at your pricing
videos to help illustrate your offerings model and why it is very competitive

Development Customer support


What is Tourism?
Share any plans you have for developing
new products or services in the future.
Describe customer support services
offered, including technical support,
Explain how these offerings will address a training, and warranties/guarantees.
need in the market and differentiate from Highlight customer success stories to
others demonstrate effectiveness
TOURISM
Comprises the activities of
persons traveling to - and
staying in- places outside
their usual environment for
not more than one
consecutive years, for
leisure, business and other
purposes (UNWTO)
6 Elements of a
Tourism System
1.What
2. Who
3. Where
4. When
5. Why
6. How
TOURISM
PRODUCT
Product
- A product is
anything that can be
offered to a market
for attention,
acquisition, use or
consumption that
might satisfy a need
or want
What is Tourism
Product?
- It can be defined
as the sum of
physical and
psychological
satisfaction.

- It provides to
tourist during their
traveling route to
the destination
TANGIBLE ELEMENTS INTANGIBLE ELEMENTS

• Attractions Hospitality / Courtesy


• Infrastructure: roads, Friendliness / Human Warmth
airports, water, electricity Ambience
etc. The general atmosphere of a place
• Superstructure: hotels, and the effect that it has on people
restaurants (the mood of a place)

Note: Infrastructure provides a base The way tourists are treated and
for the development of how they feel influence their overall
superstructure facilities. reaction.
Note: The tangible aspects however,
good cannot guarantee satisfaction.
Components of Tourism Product
1.Attraction
This elements in a product
which determine the choice
made by particular tourist to
visit one particular destination
rather than another
2. Accessibility
It is a mean by which a tourist
can reach the area where
attractions are located
3. Accommodation
It plays a central role and is a very
basic to tourist destinations
CHARACTERISTIC
S OF TOURISM
PRODUCT
1.Intangible
The product cannot be seen
or inspected before its
purchased
2. Perishable
Product can only take place
if the customer is actually
present
3. Psychological
Related to mental and emotional
state of a person

A large component of tourism


product is the satisfaction the
consumer derives from its use
4. Composite
Product
The tourism product cannot be
provided by a single enterprise
unlike a manufactured product
5. Unstable
Demand
Tourism demand is influenced
by seasonal, economical,
political and other such factor
CLASSIFICATION
OF TOURISM
PRODUCT
1.Natural Tourism
Product
2. Man-made
Tourism Product
3. Site-based
Tourism Product
4. Event-based
Tourism Product

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