tourism tidbits
Tourism Tidbits: Travel As an Educational Tool
Dr. Peter E. Tarlow | May 13, 2024
By Dr. Peter Tarlow In the northern hemisphere, the months of May and June not only represent the dawn of summer but the end of the academic year and the start of tourism’s high season. From the tourism industry’s perspective as the academic year wanes, tourism enters into its high seasons. It is also at this time of the year that new tourism educational opportunities begin to emerge. Educational tourism is one of the fastest-growing areas of the travel and tourism industry. It is also one that is too often overlooked by tourism professionals and marketers. Educational tourism is not only for young students. People of all ages...
Tourism Tidbits: Travel Ethical Review
Dr. Peter Tarlow | April 12, 2024
By Dr. Peter Tarlow It is not an exaggeration to state that the twenty-first century’s third decade has been one of challenges both for the tourism industry and for nations around the world. Security and safety issues, mixed with issues around energy, ecology, and sustainability have and will continue to play major roles in in the development of travel and tourism. These challenges do not pertain solely to the tourism and travel industry. The travel and tourism industries, however, are to a great extent dependent on disposable income. For example, when nations around the world face difficult economic hurdles these economic pro...
Tourism Tidbits: Some of the Major Issues Facing the Travel Industry / Dr. Peter Tarlow
Dr. Peter Tarlow | February 2, 2024
Some of the Major Issues Facing the Travel Industry On the international front - View the world carefully. The political world will continue to be unstable and when instability hits people are less likely to spend money on luxury items such as travel. The world currently faces war in both Europe and the Middle East. Due to a perceived weak United States, the possibility of war also exists in the Asian Pacific and the Korean Peninsula. Crime is a major concern in Africa and Latin America, and after the October 7th massacre it is clear that terrorism is and can become a major problem in the Middle East, Europe, and North Americ...
Tourism Tidbits: Making Your Tourism Business Secure
Dr. Peter Tarlow | December 18, 2023
"Tourism & More wishes you and yours a very happy holiday season. May the gift of travel serve to unite us all in goodwill and peace." By Dr. Peter Tarlow Making your tourism business secure. Most of our clients are honest, but unfortunately travel and tourism is also a business like any other business, and despite the goodwill felt at this season, there are also safety and security challenges. There will always be some people who seek to take advantage of other people's goodwill and graciousness. This month's issue is meant to remind you of some of the basics in making your business secure. As in past months, Tourism...
Tourism Tidbits: Dealing With Legal Issues
Dr. Peter Tarlow | October 16, 2023
By Dr. Peter Tarlow The Tourism/Visitor industry is one of the world's great industries. Large industries also mean that great deals of money can be involved. The tourism industry spends a great deal of money on promotions and marketing campaigns. Because many people assume that large tourism businesses also have deep pockets, in litigious societies such as the United States, there are also multiple lawsuits and/or other legal problems. Often local convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs) or tourism offices are unaware of their own nation's laws and obligations. This ignorance of the law can be very costly. It is for this reas...
Tourism Tidbits: How Effective Is Your Marketing?
Dr. Peter Tarlow | September 11, 2023
By Dr. Peter Tarlow September marks the end of the high summer tourism season in most of the Northern Hemisphere. This was also the year that many companies got involved in politics and found themselves with negative marketing results. The end of summer is also a good time to review your marketing efforts and ask yourself questions such as: How successful were your marketing efforts? What should you have done differently? What successes or challenges did you face that you were able to control and what was beyond your control? How did you handle problems that were beyond your control? Often tourism and travel profes...
Tourism Tidbits: The Importance of Food and Food Safety for the Travel and Tourism Industry
Dr. Peter Tarlow | August 4, 2023
By Dr. Peter Tarlow The northern hemisphere’s long summer months are a time to relax and enjoy the great outdoors. When it comes to food preparation and good food safety habits, however, being too relaxed can destroy a vacation or even terminate in hospitalization. Although no one has recently connected food safety to criminal acts or acts of terrorism, this has occurred in the past. As we learned during the Covid-19 pandemic health is an important part of tourism security. Likewise, food safety must be an essential component of a sustainable tourism industry. We only have to review some of the problems that the cruise industry has...
Tourism Tidbits: Handling Stress for Travel and Tourism Professionals
Dr. Peter Tarlow | July 10, 2023
Dr. Peter Tarlow One of the ways that the travel and tourism industry promotes its leisure market is that vacations are a time to destress. Unfortunately, all too often travel, both for business and leisure, seems to promote stress rather than destressing us. Anyone who has ever traveled understands why travel in English is derived from the French word, travail, meaning hard work. Travel, especially in high season, is work. In today's complicated world, we deal with overbookings and airline cancellations, power outages and weather conditions, and in the twenty-first century, security and pandemic concerns have added extra stress to th...
