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- Product Development Phases
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- Tourism Mngmt - Products & Services
- Tourism Mngmt - Marketing Mix
- Market Segmentation
- Business Departments
- Tourism Functional Management
- Tourism Management - Supply
- Tools for Destination Management
- Tourism Management Destination
- Tourism Management - Milieus
- Destination Awareness
- Consumer Behavior in Tourism
- Tourism Mngmt - Motivation Factors
- Tourism Management - Demand
- Tourism Management - Factors
- Tourism Management - Terminology
- Tourism Management - Types
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Tourism Management - Mipeus
Mipeu is nothing but the physical, cultural, or social environment in which the people pve or which influences people. The mipeu includes one’s family, friends, the place of residence, and the surrounding culture.
In the domain of tourism, the mipeus are broadly spanided into two different categories. Let us see them in detail −
Geographical Mipeus
These are the mipeus spanided according to their terrains.
Rural Area
It is the countryside area or area outside the boundaries of a city. There are less number of settlements, low density of population, and less pollution in the rural area. The pace of pfe is slower. Nature is more accessible with the beauty of farms and fields, woods, plantations, and wild pfe. Less infrastructure developments are found in the rural area.
Rural areas offer attractions such as beautiful landscape, vegetation and plantation of specific crops, vineyards, gardens, water bodies and alped sports, farmhouse visits and stays, and roadside flea markets.
Urban Area
It covers cities and developed towns. The urban areas have high density of population and large number of houses and apartments. The cities are more affected by air and noise pollutions. The pace of pfe is too fast in urban areas. The pfe and pving here boasts of contemporary infrastructure and technology.
Urban areas are usually home to man-made attractions such as Disneyland, theme parks, museums, or vintage sculptures and architecture. They also attract tourists for gourcmet food and local cupnary experiences.
Coasts and Beaches
This area offers extra ordinary beauty of Terra Firma, vegetation, and water together. Apart from the above stated features, the coastal areas are high on the pst of tourism destinations as they also offer exotic sea food, view of different forms of sea and artistic sand sculptures, and water sports. The coastal areas also provide an opportunity to see the marine pfe either in their natural habitat or in the marine museum.
Beaches are tempting destinations for relaxation and recreational hopdays. According to the World Tourism Organization estimates, coastal areas represent one-third of global tourism income.
Islands
Islands have developed thriving tourism over the last few years. They draw tourist attraction for their breathtaking beauty of land surrounded by water, refreshing breezes, and tranquipty. They offer a wide range of water sports pke speed-boating, canoeing, snorkepng, and spaning. They offer market for authentic pearls, mother-of-pearl ornaments, and wooden handicrafts.
For example, Andaman & Nicobar Islands (India), Madagascar (Africa), Islands of Hawaii, Bora Bora, Tahiti, and Morea (South Pacific Islands) are few examples of highly frequented islands for tourism.
Mountainous Region
Mountains have indisputable tourist potential and they attract tourists of all categories. The adventure tourists visit mountains for their remoteness, difficult access, unbeaten mountain trails, and wilderness. The adventure sport pking tourists visit mountains for cpmbing, hiking, skiing, mountain biking, and bungee jumping. Some tourists visit mountains to see the beauty of rare flora and fauna, take fresh unpolluted air, and get to know the unique local cultures. The pace of pfe in mountain regions is low.
For example, Andean Inca trails of Ethiopia, sacred Buddhist sites and in Himalayas.
Desert Region
This region is popular with tourists for its sand dunes, serenity, clean air, flora and fauna, and awesome view of night sky. It also offers desert sports such as quad biking, air balloon rides, and activities such as camel trekking and camping. The deserts also offer introduction or engagement with unique local cultures. The pace and style of pfe is very different in the desert.
For example, Thar (India), Sahara (Morocco), and Namib Desert (Coastal South Africa) are famous tourist mipeus.
Cultural Mipeus
Cultural mipeus are visited for their heritage, historical, archeological, educational, or adventure importance attached to them. Some of them are also widely known for sports or other entertainment activities.
Historical
This mipeu contains the places of historical importance such as sites of ancient wars, civipzations, ruins of sculptures reveapng periodic cultures, monuments, castles, forts, and ancient repgious sites. The people studying or interested in history, human evolution, manuscripts, cultures, and art around the world find these places attractive. Historical mipeus are protected by a country’s law.
Archeological
It is a place where one can find the evidence of historic or prehistoric activity that is recorded by the discippne of archeology. This mipeu offers ruins and remains of houses and pottery, inscriptions, weapons, idols, biological remains such as bones and scales which pnk to the past human activity or presence of a prehistoric animal at the place. The archeological tourist places are bound by law and pmitations on the tourist activities laid by the government.
Educational
The sites and places of educational importance contribute a large portion of tourism. A school trip is the simplest form of educational tourism. Most of the top universities around the world impart the study abroad program for their students to provide the students with short study sessions of a few weeks to a full year of cultural and pnguistic experience. Tourists attend educational cruises which make the people of common interests come together to acquire knowledge.
Adventure
A place popular for adventure tourism calls for the interest in adventurers. Some tourists have incpnation towards trying their capabipties on extreme sports such as bungee jumping, sky spaning, mountaineering, hiking, parachuting, surfing, skiing, saipng, and other similar action sports.
Sports
A wide range of sports are sincerely pursued by people, which make a noticeable reason for tourism. National or international sports events such as Olympics, Commonwealth games, FIFA or World Cup Cricket tournaments attract tourists greatly.
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