2 Comments March 25th, 2009

What are the four perspectives of tourism?

adwin_cutie22 asked:


can you tell me what are the four perspectives of tourism? or a website that contains the topic. please help me…
thanks and god bless.

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2 Responses to “What are the four perspectives of tourism?”

  1. xo379 Says:
    March 26th, 2009 at 12:57 am

    Scroll down to “What is tourism?”

    “Four different perspectives of tourism can be identified:

    1) The tourist: The tourist seeks various psychic and physical experiences and satisfactions. The nature of these will largely determine the destinations chosen and the activities enjoyed.
    2) The business providing tourist goods and service: Business people view tourism as an opportunity to make a profit by supplying the goods and services that the tourist market demands.
    3) The government of the host community or area: Politicians view tourism as a wealth factor in the economy of their jurisdictions. Their perspective is related to the incomes their citizens can earn from this business. Politicians also consider the foreign exchange receipts from international tourism as well as the tax receipts collected from tourist expenditures, either directly or indirectly.
    4) The host community: Local people usually see tourism as a cultural and employment factor. Of importance to this group, for example, it is the effect of the interaction between large numbers of international visitors and residents.”

  2. Yan-Yan R Says:
    March 26th, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    ?