TOUR PLAN

• Planning


  One of the most fundamental skills that you will need as future tourism professionals
• Tourism Policy


  A defined set of rules, regulations, guidelines, directive, and development or promotion
• Micro-environmental Factors


  Internal to a planning unit, such as a tourist destination, an LGU, a country, and the like
• Macro-environmental Factors


  External to a planning unit
• Strategies


  The method by which objectives will be achieved
• International Tourism Planning


  Concerned mostly with international transportation services
• National Tourism Planning


  Focused on several elements like tourism policy, a physical structure
• Provincial Planning


  More specific planning than the regional level but not as detailed as city
• Site-Level Tourism Planning


  Very specific planning for individual buildings or complexes of buildings such as hotels
• Time frame of plans

  • Short-term (2 years or less)
  • Medium-term (2-5 years)
  • Long-term (5 years and up)
• Comprehensive tourism plan


  Also known as Master Plan, composed of smaller plans
• Focused tourism plan


  Concentrates on just one or two specific components
• Tourism development unit


  The space covered in tourism planning
• Tourist site


  An area that contain one or more tourist attractions
• Categories of tourist attractions


  • Geophysical-landscape-aesthetic
  • Ecological-biological
  • Cultural-historical
  • Recreational
• Primary Attraction

  The main reason for the visiting tourists to a destination
• Secondary attractions

  Places that complement the primary attractions but are not "must-see"
• Tourism Development Area (TDA)


  An area designated for possessing an important site or groups of tourist site
• Tourism Cluster

  • A group of highlighted tourism attractions
• Tourism Circuit


  A route involving at least three major tourist destinations
• Tourism Corridor


  A route defined by a theme spanning several countries or even continents
• Tourism Destination

  A unique place where a visitor spends at least one night
• Originality


  • Being the first to have a particular attraction
• Indigenousness


  • Having something that can only be found in your destination
• Authenticity


  • Being true to traditions and methods of preparation, not contrived
• Uniqueness


  • Not found anywhere else
• Historicity


  • Being significant for a particular event
• Magnitude


  • Being the tallest, smallest, biggest, scariest, or anything superlative
• Excellence


  • Having the highest quality
• Republic Act (RA) 9593 or the Tourism Act of 2009 states that tourism is an indispensable element of the national economy
• Existing attraction/site


  Supply and demand for tourism are already established
• Potential attraction/site


  Greenfield or an area without tourism structures and visitors but which has outstanding aesthetic appeal
• Hazards and security issues

  • Good sources of information are the LGU's CLUP, Disaster Response and Recovery Management Plan (DRRM) plan, and Local Climate Change Adaptation Plan (LCCAP)
  • Hazards can be natural or man-made
• Presidential Decree No. 189

  1973
• Tourism Act of 2009 (Republic Act No. 9593)


  Reorganized the Department of Tourism, added new agencies to the DOT family, requires accreditation for quality assurance of primary tourism enterprises, and promoted the establishment of Tourism Enterprise Zones
• Laws that regulate the standards of tourism facilities

  • National Building Code (Republic Act. No. 6541)
  • Accessibility Law of 1982 (Batas Pambansa Bilang 344)
  • Sanitation Code (P.D. 856)
  • Fire Code (Republic Act No. 9514)
• National Building Code

  RA 6541
• Accessibility Law of 1982

  Batas Pambansa Bilang 344
• Fire Code

  RA 9514
• • Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004 (RA No. 9262) prohibits sexual violence against women and

  children, including prostituting them.