REVIEW QUESTION W1
(Use to review learning points)
1. Review key concept: inbound/ outbound; visitor/traveler/tourist/travel
system
Answer:
– Inbound tourism: Visits to a country by nonresidents
– Outbound tourism: Visits by residents of a country to another country
– Visitors: those persons who travel to a country other than that in which they have
their usual residence but outside their usual environment for a period not
exceeding twelve months and whose main purpose of visit is other than the
exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited
– Traveler: any person on a trip between two or more countries or between two
or more localities within his/her country of usual residence
– Tourist: a person who travels for either tourism or for other purposes combined
with tourism, except for those travel to study or work
– Travel system: A framework which enables one to understand the overall
process of tourist travel from both supplier and purchaser’s perspective (Supply–
demand) while identifying the organizations which influence and regulate
tourism.
• The most widely used framework is that developed by Leiper (1990) –
Leiper’s tourism system
• 5 independent core elements:
• At least one tourist
• At least one tourist-generating region
• At least one transit route region
• At least one tourist destination
• A travel and tourism industry
2. Why does UNWTO need specific tourist definitions? Why does Vietnam need
them?
Answer:
– UNWTO needs to specific tourist definitions because UNWTO wants to have the
full data collection and do the research about tourism industry.
– Vietnam needs those specific tourist definitions because they can help Vietnam
to create convenient conditions for research and statistic on tourism indicators.
3. What approach to tourism study does this course take? Which approach
interests you most?
Answer:
– This course takes: Institutional Approach; Product Approach; Historical
Approach; Managerial Approach; Economic Approach; Sociological Approach;
Geographical Approach; Interdisciplinary Approaches; The Systems Approach.
– Managerial approach interests me most.
4. What are the components of tourism?
