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Tourism Tidbits: Reviewing More Fundamentals of The Travel & Tourism Industry – Part 2 of 2
Dr. Peter Tarlow | February 7, 2017
By Dr. Peter Tarlow Part 2 of a two part series. Part 1 appeared in January Last month we looked at some of the fundamentals of a successful tourism business or industry. Although every local is different, and it is a basic principle to emphasize the unique and different aspects of your business or locale, human beings are basically the same around the world and the best principles of good tourism are the same across both cultures and languages. Tourism is the telling of a story in which the visitor becomes part of the tale. To travel is to seek the different, to find a way to leave the humdrum of daily life and enter into a world of no...
Tourism Tidbits: Reviewing Some Fundamentals Of The Travel & Tourism Industry – Part 1 of 2
Dr. Peter Tarlow | January 5, 2017
By Dr. Peter Tarlow Once again the travel and tourism industry faces both new and on-going challenges. Travel and tourism cannot be separated from the world context in which they operate. Be that context political states of war, or one of health issues or of economic undulations, what occurs throughout the world touches every aspect of tourism. It is for this reason that every once in a while it is good for travel and tourism professionals to take a step back and to review at least some of the basic fundamentals of their industry. We all claim to know these fundamental principles, but all too often in the "madness of life and work" we n...