Question

What is tourism? Who is a tourist? What are the three essential components of tourism?

Answer 1

Instructions:

• Define tourism.
• Define tourist.
• Explain the three essential components of tourism.

Solution:
Tourism: Tourism comprises the movement of people to countries or places outside their usual environment for personal or business/professional purposes.

Tourist: A tourist is a person who travels out of his everyday environment for not more than one year and less than 24 hours. The purpose of travel may be religious, recreational, historical or cultural.

Essential components of tourism
The three main components of tourism are attraction, accessibility and amenities.

• Attraction: Refers to places that attract the tourist's attention. There are two types of attraction- natural attraction, which includes landscape, seascape, beaches and forests and cultural attraction, which includes historical monuments, fairs and festivals.
• Accessibility: It means the reachability to a particular place of attraction through various means of transportation such as road, rail, water and air.
• Amenities: These are the facilities that cater to tourists. This includes accommodation such as hotels, restaurants and cafes. It also includes travel organisers, tour operators and travel agents who arrange a tour.