HTT 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Conceptual Framework, Visual Flight Rules

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Hospitality and Tourism Management
• Course: HTT 150
• Professor: Tom Griffin

Document Summary

Htt 150 lecture 4 review and definition of tourism. In a couple of hundred years, the time of travel is cut down by lot. From 10 weeks, to 7 hours with the help of boats and planes: 1/11 people are employed in the tourism industry, gdp in canada is 2% for tourism, so 1 in 50 dollars is related to tourism. Politicians may exclude refugees: consistent definition updates allow for comparability for trends, can help tourism identify as an industry and not just for fun. It"s arbitrary and works for its purpose of counting and measuring, but doesn"t include the experiential side of tourism: conceptual/heuristic definition - general understanding of what tourism is. It"s more inclusive, but it is not countable: knowledge gain from experience, mathieson and walls conceptual framework dynamic and always changing. Staying at hilton for a festival and for food and not travelling just to stay at hilton)