Thursday, July 8, 2010

Tourism


The word tourism is derived from French word "tourisme" literally means to tour and travel. Tourism is the process of temporary movement in the particular destination undertaken by the human that starts from one point and ultimately ends at the point where one started the journey from. It is phenomenon of human character related to tour and travelling at a particular area, locality, sites, places etc. But travelling without any reason for temporary stay is not termed as tourism. It is something about people who travel away from their familiar home environment for many reasons. In order to know the meaning of tourism, one should also know the simple ideology of tour
The nature of tourism is closely connected with travelling. It has been a human phenomenon since the beginning of human civilization. It is a sensitive factor of the human nature in the context of moving to survive, explore and to know the unkown. In the yearly times they started travelling as nomads in search of prey and food. Later, the development of the agricultural system created a base of the movement of people as a traveler. Then the output of industrial revolution made travelling made prominent to various destinations. It made the travelers life style easier and safer to realize their tourism activaties.
Thus the modern tourism is absolutely change due to complete development overall sectors of tourism components and counciousness of the people.
Advantages and disadvantages of tourism.
It may seem, that tourism brings only benefits, but further consideration shows that it also has disadvantages.Firstly, many countries depend heavily upon travel expenditures by foreigners as a source of taxation and as a source of income for the enterprises. Therefore, the development of tourism is often a strategy to promote a particular region for the purpose of increasing commerce through exporting goods and services. Secondly, it provides direct employment for the people associated with occupations in bars and hotels. Thanks to it, the average standard of living of people increases well and at the same time unemployment is on the decrease. However, tourists cause environmental damage through forest fires, destruction of sand dunes and pollution. Consequently this serves negatively as increased pollution disturbs local residents and also it may discourage tourists from further entering the country.After this, tourism undermines culture by commercializing it and this is often connected with increasing litter, graffiti, vandalism and noise - tourists do not always respect traditional cultures, which is sad but true. In general, tourism is an extremely profitable process in loads of countries, especially those in which the process of development continue to depend on this industry because this industry does not require a lot of literacy and also it yields maximum profits with less investment.
Components of tourism
In order to make the tourism activities aspiring and fun-filled, the roll of the following components becomes very crucial.
Attraction:
attractions are the most important and typical element of tourism that tickle the desire of human feelings. They are the products, which inspire the aspirations potential visitors\tourist and determined their choice to visit a certain destination compared to another
Accessibility:
this is related to transport, which is another important components of tourists products. It is means bywhich a visitor can reach the destination where attraction are situated. It makes the possibilities of reaching to search attractive destination by means of cosy and responsible transportation system. Actually most of the tourism activities are concerned with transport facilities. People who have been travelling away from home, spent a major percentage of budgets in their fair.

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