Added: 02/08/2006 |
Waht is internal tourism consumption?The internal tourism industry involves a very wide range of commercial and public enterprises and brings economic and social benefits to society. It creates employment for many different categories of workers and offers job opportunities for women specially.
The tourism industry is extremely fragmented, made up of small and large businesses both from the public and private sectors. The industry needs co-ordination, investment, training and marketing, which entail co-operation between government, local authorities and communities and commercial enterprises.
Internal tourism is an economic activity, which involves and impacts on almost all sectors of society. There is a need to create awareness among a whole range of institutions and the population at large, that tourism is not just about them taking annual holidays, but can have positive implications on the entire society through the services offered.
The very important part of internal tourism is Internal tourism consumption. Internal tourism consumption comprises the consumption of both resident and non-resident visitors within the economic territory of the country of reference and/or that provided by residents. It is the sum of domestic tourism consumption and inbound tourism consumption.
Internal tourism consumption may include goods and services imported into the country of reference and sold to visitors. Internal tourism consumption aggregate provides the most extensive measurement of visitor consumption in the country of reference. The basic concept measuring tourism activity and refers to total consumption of or on behalf of visitors and could, consequently, also be termed as "visitor demand".
In visitor consumption concepts, visitor final consumption expenditure in cash (its main component), corresponds to the term "visitor expenditure", traditionally used in the analysis of tourism. Visitor consumption exceeds visitor purchases on a trip. It encompasses these purchases as well as all expenditure on goods and services by all other institutional units on behalf of visitors. If cash or financial assets are transferred to the visitor to finance his/her trip, the purchases funded by these are included in visitor consumption. Along with this are all forms of transfers in kind and other transactions benefiting visitors where it is not cash or financial assets which is provided to the visitors but the goods and services themselves - thus the consumption of individual non-market services is included. Essentially all transactions where there is a direct link between the visitor and the producer/provider of the good or service are within scope.
World tourism is traditionally represented by international tourist arrivals and international tourist expenditure. The evolution of these indices shows us the continuously increasing growth trends in the world tourism industry.
The growth of international tourism started to be evaluated the 1960s, when tourism acquired global proportions with over 50 million international tourist arrivals. After the 1960s and 1970s, when mass tourism became a worldwide phenomenon, the growth rate of international tourism took on spectacular dimensions
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