Season 1 Flashcards
(28 cards)
It is an evenvironment and destination that promotes entertainment attractions or opportunities an enhance experiences of tourists an travelers
Tourism Facilities
In the travel industry, the term facilities is referring to?
A. Physical Spaces
- hotels (accommodation)
- restaurants
- food establishments
- transportation hubs
B. Tourists Attractions
C. Leisure Amenities (Fitness center, pools, spas)
D. Business Services (Conference rooms)
E. Grouping pieces of equipment (Sound systems and etc.)
F. Services provided for a particular purpose (PWD and etc.)
What are the types of Physical Spaces?
- Fixed (Hotels, Resorts, Swimming pool, parks, zoo)
- Mobile (Cruises, mobile library, food carts)
- Temporary in Nature (tents if there’s concerts, rescue centers due to fire and flood)
What are the purpose of Management of a Facility?
a. enhance the customer experiences (revenue)
◆ to make the visit memorable
◆ to make tourist money’s worth
◆ it is educational for the visitors
The management and operation of a facility will be provided by whom?
Private (owned by private person)
Public (owned by the government) gasoline,
Voluntary sectors for the purposes of accommodation, catering, sports, recreation, leasure and/or business
What are the different levels of Facilities?
- Primary
- Sub-Facility
- Ancillary Facilities
This facility is the main purpose why people go to the area, and it fulfill a core benefit for the user
Primary Facility
A type of support facility in order for the primary facility to operate
- it is also the comfort of the attendees
Sub-facility
A type of facility that is required for a day-to-day operations and functioning of the primary and sub-facilities
- may be outsourced to a third party
Ancillary Facilities
What are the Scopes of Facilities?
- Stakeholder Group
- Demand
- Consumer Pressure Groups
- Supplier interest Groups
- Media
- Distributors
- Transport
- Planners, Developers, and Controllers
A type of scope of facility where it is referring to the consumers behavior, preferences and market trends.
Demand
This refer to the group of people that demands for a certain condition of Facilities which will influence their planning and development
Consumer Pressure Groups
This group may provide information and intelligence informs the management and develpment of the facility
Supplier interest groups
It acts a major stimulus for demand for the facility
Media
It assists in generating demand for the facility, This may include intermediaries that enable the consumer to be directed and gain access to the facility
Distributors
A sector that enables the mobility of the consumer to the facility
Transport
A type of scope where the Goverment agencies, contractors (civil engineers & architects) will manage the overriding governance of facilities
Planners, developers, and controllers
Its primary function is to provide a place for rest and recuperation. Providers will have sub-and ancillary facilities that support their day-to-day
operation
Accommodation
Its primary function of this facilities is the sustenance and refreshment
of customers and users
Food and Beverage
This sector is unique, it supports the supply of users to and from facilities while also potentially is primary facility in its own right.
Transport
Similar to other facilities, the composition of this is wide ranging. Broadly, it can be classified as natural; man-made but not built to attract visitors; man-made and purpose built; and special
events
Attractions
These are key component of the THE industries and will overlap with the aforementioned categories of facilities including accommodation, transport, food and beverage.
Event venues
What are the tourism facilities’ characteristics
intangibility, inseparability, heterogeneity, perishability and lack of
ownership.
It implies that the services of most of the tourism facilities cannot be touched or tested prior to purchase. Their prior purchase decision making will be influenced by past experiences of using the facility, the image of the facility and reputation of the facility, recommendations from referral sources and so on.
Characteristic 1: Intangibility