DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL TOURISM
INTERNATIONAL TOURISM
It involves traveling
from a country of residence to other countries for long period of tome up to
one year.
People who travel and
stay in countries other than their country of residence for less than one year
are normally describe as international tourists
They are usually
treated as the most important market sector of tourism because compared with
domestic tourists;
v
They
spend more
v
Stay
longer at the destination
v
Use more
expensive transport and accommodations
v
Bring in
foreign currencies which contribute to a destination country’s international
balance of payments
DOMESTIC TOURISM
People who travel and
stay overnight within the boundaries of their own countries are classified as
domestic tourists
v
Estimate
of the size of this sector of market vary because in many countries domestic
tourism is not adequately measured at present. In USA where good measurements
does exist, American take only one trip abroad for every 100 domestic trips
defined as travel to places more than 100 miles distance from home. Even for
longer visits over 10 nights duration, international trips were no more than 3%
of the total
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