Resort VS. Convention Hotels

Resort Hotel
- people visit for relaxation, recreation or entertainment
- example: golf, tennis, swimming, skiing, snowmobile, snow boarding, horseback riding, hiking, boating, fishing and canoeing facilities
- destination resort: medical and dental clinics, combination of many hotels, shops, restaurants, church service, fitness center, public library, museum, movie theatre
- For example: Whistler Resort, British Columbia, Canada

Convention Hotel
- caters to large groups, usually in the downtown area of major cities and can accommodate as many as 5000 guests
- high-tech conference areas with media centers - audio and video recoring capabilities
- in-house tv channels that can broadcast to all sleeping rooms and meeting facilities, satellite uplink and downlink capabilities for people who cannot attend the conference in person
- may have 3-6 person audiovisual staff (expert and highest quality)

Barriers to Tourism Acceptance

Barriers :
- increases in many different types of crime
- introduction or increase of undesireable activities such as prositution, gambling or drunkeness
- increases in air, water, land and noise pollution
- increases in congestion at swimming areas, shopping centers, restaurants, parks and roadways
- proliferation of 'tacky' souvenirs based on local arts and crafts
- building of racial tension, especially where obvious differences exist between guests and their hosts
- increases in cost of food, rent, transportation and labor
- increases in cost of police and fire protection, sewage and water and possibly airports
- changes in the work force, such as an increase of workers in low-paid, menial jobs characteristics of many hotels and restaurants
- decline in cultural pride
- lowering of the overall community's feeling of happiness asa result of serving those who have more
- upheaval of the community's status quo with the 'feast or famine' experiences of seasonal tourism

Social Problems Created by Tourism

Congestion/crowding:

- traffic congestion is a major problem, especially on routes to and from the seaside and large attractions

- for example: parking once the tourist has arrived at the destination is an additional problem as once car parks are full, roadside will be used

Local Community:

- tourist demand for water supplies for example in Goa, India, one hotel uses as much water as five local villages

- pressure is created on local health services to cater for tourist's ailments instead of local needs

- shops sell souvenirs instead of products needed by locals for example foodstuffs and prices ae inflated as a result

- crime such as burglary may increase as a result of tourism

Other socio-cultural effects may include clash of values:

- visitors may bring in 'taboo' clture for example drinking, sexual acts and increase the introduction of prositution,gambling and drugs

- local may lose sight of their unique culture, tradition, religion and lifestyle

- consumption behaviour change in choice of food for example imported goods are seen as superior to their own local items results in rejection of local goods

Migration:

- more people move to the tourism and developed destination area resulting to a more crowded environment

The 6 Travel Experience Phases

Phase 1: Anticipating a Trip

~ imagination and enthusiasm develop. The trip may never actually occur, but still conributes to one's happiness through anticipation. The studying of maps, brochures, or travel-related articles helps to build the anticipation

Phase 2: Planning a Trip

~ gathering supplies and equipment, getting airline tickets, hotel reservations, passports, packing, physical training, especially if the motivation is sports participation or similar activity

Phase 3: Initial Travel to the Site

~ This is one of the important parts in the trip planning stage. Once the tourist arrives they will take things a little slower and enjoys the surroundings

Phase 4: Participation

~ although the trip may be relatively short, such as driving to Kota Kinabalu for the Dragon Boat Race the drive to Kota Kinabalu may take a full day and the game may take only 3-4 hours, one can be full satisfied if they are able to participate or witness the events

Phase 5: Returning

~ this is the gearing-down when we get our minds back on what needs to be done at home or at the job. It can become an experience independent of the participation phase. Taking alternate routes often enhances the whole experience when care is taken to plan activities different from those planned for the initial travel phase

Phase 6: Recollecting Joys and Follies

~ Participation is relieved through pictures, stories and memories. At times, the experience develops new significance and gains embellishments during the recollection phase

Understanding Tourism

What is Tourism?

~ a temporary short term of people to destinations outside the places where they normally live and work, and their activities during their stay at those destinations

~ it has to be at least at least 50km away from your home origin

~ should be more than a day but less than a year

~ for various purposes not including daily communting to and from work

~ the mix of interdependent businesses that directly or indirectly serves the travelling public

~ also, a journey which is taken in 1 day called 'excursion'