Senin, 19 November 2012

Glossaries of Tourism Part 1



1. Accreditation is a process of qualifying, endorsing, and "licensing" entities that perform certification of businesses, products, processes, or services.
2. Attraction: Any visitor service or product which tourists would enjoy visiting or using.
3. Attractor: A person who does the attraction
4. Bed and breakfast (B&B): Overnight accommodations usually in a private home or boarding house, often with a full American-style or Continental breakfast included in one rate.
5.Buffet : A foods pot that can contain so many kinds of foods
6. Block: A number of rooms, seats, or space reserved in advance, usually by wholesalers, tour operators, or receptive operators who intend to sell them as components of tour packages.
7. Budgeted balance sheet: A budget that measures total assets and liabilities.
8. Backpacker: A visitor, for the purpose of a holiday or special event, who stays in a backpackers lodge/hostel
9. bias: a display of computer for flight schedule
10. Business travel: Travel for a purpose and to a destination determined by a business, and where all costs are met by that business.
11. cafeteria: a food-service operation of a limited menu, usually for relaxing
12. carrier: transportation company such as an airline, motorcoach, cruise line, or railroad which carries passengers and/or cargo carrying capacity: the amount of tourism a destination can handle
13. Charter: a service to hire the exclusive use of any aircraft, or other vehicle.
14. Community is people living in one place
15. common carrier: a privately owned carrier which offers transportation for a fee
16. Consolidator: A person or company which forms groups to travel on air charters or at group people on scheduled flights to increase sales,
17. conditions: the section or clause of a transportation/tour contract which specifies what is not included
18. Conservation: The protection and maintenance of nature while allowing for its ecologically sustainable use.
19. culture: people's customs, clothing, food, houses, language, dancing, music, drama, literature and religion
20. Customer: An organization or a person that receives a product
21. Day visitors: Visitors who come and gone in 1 day
22. Degradation: Any decline in the quality of natural or cultural resources, or the viability of ecosystems, that is caused directly or indirectly by humans.
23. Demands: A consumer’s wants backed by the ability to purchase
24. Departure point: The location or destination from which a tour usually begins
25. Departure tax: Fee collected from a traveler by the host  at the time of departure.
26. Ecotour: A tour that created for enjoy environment
27. Educational tour: A tour designed around an educational activity, such as studying art.
28. Escort: A person, usually employed by a tour operator, who accompanies a tour from departure
29. Full house: A hotel with all guest rooms occupied.
30. Function room: A special room that is used primarily for private parties, banquets, and meetings. Also called banquet rooms.
31. Gateway: City, airport, or area from which a flight or tour departs.
32. Ground operator: A company that provides local travel services, including transportation or guide services.
33. Group tour: A travel package for an assembly of travelers that has a common itinerary, travel date, and transportation
34. Hospitality: A general term used in travel & tourism describing the “hospitality industry
35. Hotel Package: A package offered by a hotel, sometimes consisting of no more than a room and breakfast; sometimes, especially at resort hotels, consisting of (ground) transportation, room, meals, sports facilities and other components.
36. Incentive tour: A trip offered as a prize, usually by a company to stimulate employee sales or productivity.
37. Inquiry: A request for more information about an attraction or destination.
38. Infrastructure: Construction needed to support economic development.
39. Innovative best practice: A practice that is considered to be of the highest quality, excellence, or standing – a leader in the field.
40. Intangibility: The characteristic of not being touchable: a good is tangible whereas a service is intangible
41. intermediate carrier: a carrier that transports a passenger or piece of baggage as part of an inter-line movement, but on which neither the point of origin or destination is located
42. land operator: a company that provides local services, see also ground/receptive operator
43. lead time: advance time between initiating a tour and its departure date
44. Leadership: Influencing and directing the performance of group members towards the achievement of organisational goals
45. Length of stay: the duration of tourist who stay at hotel or inn
46. letter of agreement: a letter from the buyer to the supplier accepting the terms of the proposal. This may also be the supplier s initial proposal that has been initialed by the buyer
47. load factor: average number of seats occupied, e.g. motorcoach or air
48. local: belonging to a particular place or region
49.low season: that time of the year at any given destination when tourist traffic, and often rates, are at their lowest. Also referred to as off-peak or off-season.
50. Leisure travel: Travel undertaken for pleasure and unrelated to paid work time.
Source : http://www.arizonaguide.com/travel-professionals/tourism-glossary / http://www.gdrc.org/uem/eco-tour/t-glossary.html and some from myself :D
Prepared by : Sandhy,Regie,and Farabby of 3sao5

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