What is the Tourism Industry What is the Size of the Tourism Industry within the U.S. Economy

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What is the Tourism Industry?What is the Size of
the Tourism Industry within the U.S. Economy?

• Jennifer Moses
• ED665 Tourism Service Industry
• November 6th, 2008

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Tourism Industry

• The business of providing for different types of
  visitors
• Includes accommodation, entertainment,
  attractions, activities, food and drink
• Tourism is one of the worlds largest and fastest
  growing industries

http//greenpack.rec.org/tourism/index.shtml
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Basic Categories of Tourism

• Three basic categories are
• Domestic tourism
• Inbound tourism
• Outbound tourism
• Further Classifications
• Internal Domestic Inbound
• National Domestic Outbound
• International Inbound Outbound

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  2006/12/sorting.jpg

Source International Recommendation on Tourism
Statistics, The United Nations Statistical
Commission
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Types of Tourism

• More than 70 different types of tourism
• Adventure tourism, archaeological tourism, dark
  tourism, disaster tourism, etc.
• Some of the increasingly popular types are
• Eco-tourism
• Medical tourism
• Educational tourism
• Geo-tourism

www.indialine.com/travel/images/wildlife-at-periya
r-kerala.jpg
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Responsible Tourism(Sustainable Tourism)

• Balance of five major aspects
• Economics
• Tourist satisfaction
• Society
• Culture
• Environment
• A long-term activity involving policy-making and
  human cooperation for it to be successful

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Where are the Tourist From?

• The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that
  5.4 million international visitors traveled to
  the United States in the month of July 2008, an
  increase of 2 percent over July 2007.
• Top 10 Countries
• Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany,
  France, Republic of Korea, Australia, Italy and
  Brazil

Source http//www.forbestraveler.com/best-lists/t
op-foreign-tourist-story.html www.flags.com
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Tourists Spending

• The average overseas visitor spends 1647
• The average trip lasts for 15.6 nights
• PERSPECTIVE
• 1.5 billion per day
• 61 million per hour
• 1 million per minute

Source National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
http//www.nasaa-arts.org/artworks/profile.shtml
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Tourism and Jobs

• U.S. Travel Tourism Industry accounts for 6.5
  million jobs (4.7 of total employment)
• Another 9.5 million jobs sustained indirectly by
  the the tourism industry

http//www.monterey.com/mcp/carmelriver/Jobs.htm
Source Miller Gibson, Cluster-Based
Development in the Tourism Industry Putting
Practice into Theory
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Tourism and

• Direct economic activity of 483 billion
• Tourism in U.S. accounts for 4.1 of GDP
• Industry produces 100 billion in tax revenue for
  Federal, State and local governments

http//www.p2p-weblog.com/50226711/this_is_a_fight
_about_money_not_about_morality.php
Source Sloan Travel Tourism Industry Center
http//www.hrsm.sc.edu/travelandtourism/
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References

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• International Recommendation on Tourism
  Statistics, The United Nations Statistical
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• Miller, Mark M., and Lay James Gibson. 2005.
  Cluster-Based Development in the Tourism
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  http//www.hrsm.sc.edu/travelandtourism/
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  kers.jpg (accessed October 28th, 2008)
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  Eastern Europe http//greenpack.rec.org/tourism/in
  dex.shtml (accessed October 30th, 2008)
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Questions?