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Introduction to Tourism, Planning and Development - Coggle Diagram
Introduction to Tourism, Planning and Development
Tourism
social, cultural and economic phenomenon which entails the movement of people to countries/place outside their usual environment for personal/business purposes
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Planning
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concerned with anticipating and regulating change in a system to promote orderly development to increase the social, economic and environmental benefits as part of development process
Gunn (1979) defines tourism planning as a tool for destination area development and a means for assessing the needs of a tourist receiving destination
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Development
is a process/a state
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closely related virtually with progress, implying positive transformation or good change
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4 distint categories : 1) Developed countries, 2) Economies in transition, 3) Developing countries,4) Least Developing countries
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UN has measured the development of a country based on statistical indexes such as: 1) Income, 2) Human Assets, 3) Economic Vulnerability
3 goals of tourism planning and development: 1)Satisfactions, 2)Rewards to owners, 3)Protected utilization of environmental resources
Tourism appears in the targets of Goals 8,12 and 14.