GG294 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Disposable And Discretionary Income, World Trade Organization, Psychographic
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What motivated you to travel in the past? (what was your tourist demand?) Tourism difficult to define, - an economic sector, a system, tourism services, products, activities and experiences. The tourism system is complex: region that generates tourist demand, transport region, destination region any sectors needed to make it possible. Tourism economic sector has long been interested in the motivations, expectations, perceptions and activity choices of tourists. The definitions of a tourist varies depending on the country and/or organization defining the term: e. g. from a domestic tourism perspective. Locals can be defined as tourists within their own area if they are engaging in tourist activates and they are contributing to the local economy which is just as important as that of the more traditional tourist. Effective (actual) demand want to travel. No demand no desire to travel to particular destination. Push factors (cid:894)factors that do(cid:374)"t (cid:373)oti(cid:448)ate i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals for holidays(cid:895): available holiday time, enough discretionary income, availability of friends that come.
