TPPD MODULE 1.1

• Adventure Tourism – These destinations mostly offer active holidays or vacations that involve physical activities such as recreational sports, extreme sports, etc.
• Culinary Tourism – These destinations have cuisines found only in the area. Activities in these destinations involve the exploration of the food or delicacies it may offer. This is often done by visiting local restaurants and experiencing the local type of service.
• Cultural Tourism – This type of destination is where visitors immerse themselves with the culture. The objective of the visit is to learn the lifestyle of the local community which often involves its history, art, and architecture and the people’s way of living.
• Ecotourism – This type of destination is often attractive to responsible tourists where they get to visit undisturbed natural areas. The objective of the visit is to let the visitors know the importance of conservation and improving the well-being of the local community.
• Educational Tourism – This is often marketed to tourists whose objective in traveling is for educational purposes, such as exchange and foreign students.
• Wellness Tourism – This is mostly based on rural, seaside, or natural areas by resorts and spas where the main reason for traveling is to relax and reinvigorate the human body and senses.
• Medical Tourism – This involves destinations specializing in specific medical capabilities where people travel to obtain medical treatment.
• MICE – This stands for meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions/events. This involves destinations that cater to large groups of travelers gathered for a single purpose (usually about business).
• Religious Tourism – Destinations usually fall under this type when the purpose of travel is related to religion, such as pilgrimage, fellowship, and religious festivals.
• Religious Tourism – Destinations usually fall under this type when the purpose of travel is related to religion, such as pilgrimage, fellowship, and religious festivals.
• Seaside Tourism – These are destinations that are near coastal areas where visitors can enjoy activities mostly associated with bodies of water (scuba diving, riding jet ski and boats, surfing, etc.).
• Sports Tourism – These destinations are capable of accommodating a huge number of visitors whose objective is to observe or participate in sporting events.
• Urban Tourism – This category includes destinations that are more developed in terms of infrastructure and facilities. Some examples are major cities and national capitals.
• Wine Tourism – These are destinations that boast of wineries and vineyards where world-class wine can be produced. Visits to these destinations may include wine tasting, consumption and purchase of aged wine, etc.
• Product – The tourism industry is mostly composed of the private sector in which they provide the bulk of most tourism products.
• Price – This is the strongest influence of the tourism industry because it can dictate the price of tourism products depending on the level of demand.
• Promotion – Commercial operators often use promotion as a tool to influence tourist behavior in purchasing and product awareness.
• Place – This is often used as a means for providing information about what a destination has to offer to visitors.
• People – This emphasizes the influence of a visitor’s view of a destination through its relationship with the people that provides tourist services.
• marketing mix, which is also known as the 4P’s:

  product, price, promotion, and place, People
• tourism plan is useful for:

  • Sectors that have little experience and knowledge of the basic principles of tourism as a guideline in carrying out the needed tasks for development.
  • a tool for coordination between the sectors involved to provide better services to tourists.
• g benefits of proper tourism planning:

  • Develop tourist attractions, facilities, and infrastructure with the objective of conserving the environment.
  • It can conserve culture and provide sociocultural benefits.
  • Maintain the natural and cultural resources in the development process.
  • It can be used as a means to improve poorly developed destinations.
• There are four (4) main key players in tourism:

  tourists, host community, public sector or government, and tourism industry
• these are the following rights of the tourists:

  Be safe and secure from crime, terrorism, and disease

  Not discriminated against on the grounds of race, sex, or disability

  Not exploited by local businesses and individuals

  Fair marketing of products through honest travel brochures and advertisements

  Safe and clean physical environment

  Free and unrestricted movement, provided that they cause no damage

  Meet local people freely

  Courteous and competent service.
• basic responsibilities of tourists:

  • Obedience to local laws and regulations
  • Not taking part in activities which, while not illegal or where the laws are not enforced by local authorities, are nevertheless widely condemned by society
  • Not offending local religious beliefs or cultural norms of behavior
  • Not deliberately harming the local physical environment
  • Minimizing the use of scarce local resources.
• A host community is defined as “a diverse set of people in geographical and political boundaries.
• nvolvement of host communities depends on the following number of factors

  The nature of the political system at the national and local level

  The degree of political literacy of the local residents

  The nature of the particular tourism issue

  The awareness of the host community regarding the tourism issue

  The perception of the host community regarding the tourism issue

  The history of the local community’s involvement in tourism planning and development

  The attitudes and behavior of different media sectors.
• The public sector or government is an organization that represents the taxpayers and electors.
• the public sector’s function in tourism planning and development

  • · There are restrictions on the public sector’s ability to regulate tourism through the available
  • legislations or laws directly affecting tourism.
  • · Government bodies specializing in tourism planning and development are usually separated into sub- departments that focus on different levels (national to regional down to local).
  • · The government can also designate specific areas for environmental protection and cultural preservation.
  • · The public sector can educate tourists in order to control their behavior when visiting the area.
• The tourism industry by definition is very complex and contains different sectors that make it as a whole.

  The sectors and industries involved in tourism are often correlated in the sense that they are usually linked together to form a tourism product.