Ch3 Flashcards
What are the 5 components to TDA? (HINTS)
- Hospitality of the host
- Infrastructure
- Natural resources
- Transportation system
- Suprastructure
Define hospitality of the host
Includes the social and political climate, but involves much more than laws and culture
-genuine warmth by the local population
Define Infrastructure and examples
Is the first component put in place in any area that is being developed for habitation
-i.e. roads, telephone wires, electric wires
Define what is needed for natural resources
It needs lands, a habitable climate, a water supply, and natural beauty to attract the tourist
Define transportation system
consists of the actual vehicle that use the infrastructure.
Define supra structure
consists of all the buildings found at the destination
What are the stages of a destination life cycle, and explain
- Conception - creative entrepreneur comes up with a new concept that is different and exciting
- Building - actual building of the product
- Maturity - all components of the destination are fully developed, is marketed successfully, visitor use is high
- Decline - After a few of high activity, it begins to lose visitors as they move on to newer destinations
What are the steps for planning tourism? (8)
- Inventory
- Forecast trends
- Develop a vision, mission statement, objectives and goals
- Study alternative plans of action
- Select preferred alternative
- Develop a strategy to reach goals
- Implement plan
- Review, evaluate, revise, and continue with plans
What are the 5 areas of Inventory?
- political atmosphere - attitudes of local politicians and community leaders towards tourism
- Social atmosphere - Assess community awareness of the value and benefits of tourism
- Physical environment - its location, natural resources, climate, natural history
- Infrastructure and supra structure - the capacity of the product
- Economic environment
Two methods of forecasting trends
- Qualitative methods - The use of experts and their accumulated experiences adn knowledge to predict the likely outcome of events
- Quantitative methods - The analysis of numerical data (current and historical) to help determine the future
Explain studying alternative plans of actions
Rather than identifying only one method to achieve a set of goals, it is important to brainstorm as many alternatives as possible
What are the three types of development?
- Integrated
- Catalytic
- Coattail
Explain integrated development (6)
- One developer- built by just one developer
- Balanced development - one portion of the resort can operate at a deficit that is offset by a more lucrative portion
- Rapid development - generally will not encounter roadblocks caused by other groups
- Functional form - has the power to build an entire resort community based on a cohesive theme
- Isolation - resorts are commonly located away from existing settlements
- High prices - generally first class in all aspects
Explain Catalytic development (3)
- Centralized development - is a single, larger promoter who provides the basic facilities such as ski lifts, major accomm. units, and promotion
- Secondary developers - build complementary facilities such as nightclubs, movie theaters, restaurants, shops
- Interdependency - the success and increased expansion of this type of resort depend on the entrepreneurial activities of others
Explain Coattail development (4)
- no common theme - without a central organizer, there is no effort to have a common theme
- Duplication and redundancy - no single promoter dominates this area, no guidelines or regulations are established stating what type of business is needed
- Greater competition - offshoot of duplicated effort is increased competition in the area
- Late community involvement
