About Tourism

About Tourism

In 1936, the League of Nations defined a foreign tourist as "someone traveling abroad for at least twenty-four hours". Its successor, the United Nations, amended this definition in 1945, by including a maximum stay of six months.

           There is also a few of tourism definition:

1. Tourism is activities of persons traveling to and staying in places outside their usual  environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business, and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited ( World Tourism Organization ( WTO ) )

2.  Tourism is the sum of phenomena and relationships arising from travel and stay of non resident in so far as they do not lead to permanent resident and are not connected with any earning activity ( International Association of Scientific Expert in Tourism ( AIEST ) )

3.  Tourism is the totality of the relationship and phenomena arising from the travel and stay of strangers, provided that they stay does not imply the establishment of a permanent residence and is not connected with a remunerative activities ( Hunziker and Krapf tahun 1942 )

        Aspects of Tourism:

• Visitor Protection. Tourism professionals need to work with security professionals to protect the visitor from locals who might seek to do the visitor harm, from other visitors who may be in transit for the purpose of committing crime, and less than honest staff members. Finally, tourism surety seeks to protect the visitor from tourism professionals who may be willing to commit fraud or sell a product that is defective.
• Protection of Staff. A tourism industry that does not care about its staff (workers) cannot long survive. The second aspect of a tourism surety program is to find ways to assure that honest staff members can work in an environment that is crime free and not hostile. Tourism is a high-pressured industry and it is all too easily for staff members to be abused or for tempers to flare leading to a hostile work situation.
• Site Protection. It is the responsibility of tourism surety specialists to protect tourism sites. The term site can mean anything from a place of lodging to an attraction site. While in an age of terrorism there are people whose purpose it is to destroy or harm a specific site, site protection must also take into account the careless traveler. Often, vacationers simply forget to care for furniture, appliances or equipment. Tourism surety then also takes into account the needs of cleaning staffs and hotel engineers and seeks to assure that site environment is both attractive and as secure/safe as possible.
• Ecological Management. Closely related to and yet distinct from site security is the protection of the area’s ecology. No tourism entity lives in a vacuum. The care of a locale’s streets, lawns, and internal environment has a major impact on tourism surety. Ecology, however, should not only be restricted to the physical; it also involves the cultural ecology. It behooves specialists in tourism surety to protect the cultural ecology of an area. Strong cultures tend to produce safe places. 
• Economic Protection. Tourism is a major generator of income on both national and local levels. As such it is open to attack from various sources. For example, terrorists may see a tourism site as an ideal opportunity to create economic havoc. Criminals do not wish to destroy a tourism locale, but rather view that locale as an ideal “fishing” ground from which to harvest an abundance of riches. Tourists and visitors do not distinguish between the treatment they are afforded by the local travel and tourism industry and by people living and working in the community. 
• Reputation Protection. You only need to read the newspaper to note that crimes and acts of terrorism against tourism entities receive a great deal of media attention. The classical method of simply denying that there is a problem is no longer valid and is counter-productive to a tourism locale’s best promotional efforts. When there is a lapse in tourism security, the effect is long term. 
• A good tourism security program then is much more that simply hiring a few extra guards. Tourism surety is a highly professionalized plan that permits the protection of everything from the site to the visitor, from the locale’s ecology to its very reputation. While tourism surety programs do not promise that nothing can or will happen, they do lessen the risk of negative events and prepare a locale to minimize negative effects should an incident occur.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism#Definition

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