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• Intangible Nature - tourism can never be see, hear, taste or touch because what tourist purchase are the experiences travel gives them, including taking the plane, staying in the hotel, visiting museums, having fun and relaxing in a resort.
• TheInseparabilityofProductionandConsumption - when organization in the tourism industry provides services to tourists, this is when tourist consume such services and the two cannot be separated in terms of time.
• Differentiation - the elements that make up tourism products and their quality standards are difficult to control in a unified manner. This is because the core of tourism products is to serve people., even when a tourism enterprise can regulate behavioral standards when service staff are in certain kind of service situation, the work experiences, work attitudes will all be different. Because of this, services provided by different service staff in the same environment can never be completely the same.
• Perishability - tourism products cannot be stored like physical products and prepared for sale in the future. For example, airline companies cannot store a spare seat on right time flights to be used to cope with crowded morning or afternoon flights.
• Immobility Ownership - this refer to the fact that it is only when services are purchased that activities can be enjoyed to used. Tourist will only acquire an experience, but not the ownership of the product.
• Complementarity - tourism is made up of different activities such as eating, travel, accommodation, entertainment and touring that is why every trip in tourism requires the purchase of tourism services provided by various tourism organizations because of this, one tourism product will always be affected by the elements of other tourism products.
• Exploration

  • Few explorers or drifters visiting sites with no facilities
  • Visitors attracted to the destination by a natural physical feature
  • Specific visitor type of a selected nature
• Involvement

  • Limited interaction between local residents and the developing tourism industry lead to the provision of basic services
  • Increased advertising induces a defineable pattern of seasonal variation
  • Definite market is beginning to emerge
• Development

  • Development of additional tourist facilities and increased promotional efforts

  • Greater control of the tourist trade by outsiders

  • Number of tourists at peak periods far outweighs

  the size of the resident population, inducing rising antagonism by the latter towards the forme
• Consolidation

  • Tourism has become a major part of the local economy but growth rates have begun to level off

  • A well-delineated business district has taken shape

  • Some of the older deteriorating facilities becomes less attractive to visitors

  • Local efforts are made to extend the tourist season
• Stagnation

  • Peak number of tourists and capacity level are reached

  • The destination has a well-established image, but it is no longer in fashion
• Post-stagnation

  • Five possibilities, reflecting a range of options that

  may be followed, depending partly on the success of local management decisions. At either extreme are rejuvenation and decline
• Physical Carrying Capacity-

  amount of suitable land available for accommodation, tourist facilities and services

  the number of people who can physically accommodated on a given facility

  • the capacity of local transport systems
• Environmental Carrying Capacity

  the tramping of grassland at picnic sites

  disturbance of wildlife

  • physical erosion of important historic monuments by visitors’ feet
• Psychological or Perceptual Carrying Capacity

  visitor’s demand

  visitors’ attitude to both the number and behavior of other users

  • visitors’ tolerance of the physical wear and tear or pollution at the destination
• Economical Carrying Capacity

  property prices raised to such an extent that local people can no longer afford to purchase

  • prices of daily consumption products keep rising due to the continuous increase in visitors demand
• Social-Cultural Carrying Capacity

  acceptance of tourist by the local population

  • level of acceptance depends on previous experience and benefits that tourism

  brings