Activity for

HOSM 100A Macro Perspective of Tourism and Hospitality

Activity 1 (Chapters 1-3)

Chapter 1
1. Identify and describe the four perspectives contained in the definition of tourism, in terms of
your home community.
*Tourist: Seeks psychic and physical experiences and satisfactions.
*The businesses providing tourist goods and services: Business people see tourism as an
opportunity to make a profit by supplying the goods and services that the tourist market
demands.
*The government of the host community or area: Politicians view tourism as a wealth factor in
the economy of their jurisdictions. Their perspective is related to the incomes their citizens can
earn from this business.
*The host community: Local people see tourism as a cultural and employment factor.

2. What approach to tourism study does this course take? Which approach interests you most?
*The approach this course takes to tourism study is an institutional approach. The approach that
interests me most interdisciplinary approach.

3. What are the components of tourism?

*Attractions
*Amenities
*Accessibilities
*Accommodation

4. How important are tourist attractions?

*It’s important to have tourist attractions because it’s important to understand tourists'
motivation for please travel, also the multiple factor that influence their selection of a destination
and mode of travel.

5. Why are geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, and economists interested in tourism?

*Geographers: Should be interested in tourism because they study location, therefore they can
tack the movements of people created by tourism locales, the changes that tourism brings the
landscapes, dispersion of tourism development as well as physical planning, economic, social,
and cultural problems.
*Sociologists: Studied the tourism of individuals and groups of people and the impact of tourism
on society.
*Anthropologists: They interested because cultural and heritage tourism, different ways and
travel for different reasons, use a psychological approach to best determine the best way to
promote and market tourism products.
*Economists: Is interested to in tourism it’s because focus on supply, demand, balance of
payments, foreign exchange, employment, expenditures, development, and multiplies framework
for analyzing tourism.

6. What will the tourism industry be like from the year 2021 onward?
*According to tourism 2020 Vision international arrivals will exceed 1.6 billion by 2020 and to
continue to grow after that.

7. What are the benefits of tourism?

*Provides employment, diversity, spreads development, develop local products and resources,
creates a favorable worldwide image for a destination.

8. What are some negative aspects of tourism?

*Creates misunderstanding, creates social problems, commercializes culture, religion, and the
arts.

9. Why is tourism so popular?

*Tourism is so popular because it is a rapid growth in movement of people; domestically and
internationally, which has brought so much diversity.

Chapter 2

1. Why is learning the tourism’s long history important?

*Learning the long history of tourism is valuable because it paints a picture to how civilizations
developed, traded, and interacted with one another.

2. Do travelers of today have similar motivations to those of travelers who lived during the
classical era?
*They still do because travel is so big now that risk is still out there even though crime can occur
anywhere it’s important to not live-in fear and to be attentive while traveling.

3. What were the major travel motivations of early sea explorers such as Columbus, Cabot,
Balboa, Magellan, and Gosnold?
*The principal travel impulses of the early sea explorers were that they were all looking for new
findings. The word wasn’t discovered yet and they wanted to be the first to find new land.
4. Early religious houses such as churches and monasteries often accommodated travelers. Give
reasons for this.
* It’s because of the ubiquitous power of religion, and especially Christianity, monasticism
flourished in medieval Europe.
5. Describe ancient tourist attractions. How significant are they now?
*Ancient Tourist Attraction is a place of where tourist visit, on the other hand its inherent or an
exhibited significance, natural or built beauty as well as offering leisure and amusement.

6. Who were the first travel agent and tour operator? What services did they provide?
* The first travel agent and tour operator are Robert Smart and he began booking passengers on
steamers to various Bristol Channel ports and to Dublin, Ireland.

7. How has the Global Distribution System (GDS) helped travel agencies and the travelers?
* A Global Distribution System (GDS) is a computerized network system owned or operated by
a company that enables transactions between travel industry service providers, mainly airlines,
hotels, car rental companies, and travel agencies. The GDS mainly uses real-time inventory (e.g.,
number of hotels rooms available, number of flight seats available, or cars available) to service
providers. The travel agencies traditionally relied on GDS for services, products and rates in
order to provide travel-related services to the end consumers. Thus, a GDS can link services,
rates and bookings consolidating products and services across all three travel sectors: I.e., airline
reservations, hotel reservations, car rentals.

8. What will travel be like twenty years from now?

*Absolutely unknown, we cannot ever tell what it will be like next season or in the future. We
are in unknown territory and it all depends on how soon we beat this virus. All we can say is that
it is doubtful it will ever return to what it was in 2019. Because travel volumes will be lower, it
will likely be more expensive for the individual traveler.
Chapter 3

1. As a career in tourism, what position appeals to you at present?

*The position appeals at my present in career tourism is a Front Desk

2. What preparation will be needed for that position?

*The preparation that will be needed in this position are self-confidence, good personality,
talkative, entertaining personality, hard work and study hard to get this position and also money
for possible expenses while pursuing this position.

3. What are its probable rewards?

*The probable rewards in my own opinion it could be promotion for being a hotel manager,
promotion to big hotels, triple salary and could be promoted for abroad.

4. Are your speaking skills and people skills good enough to land a job?
*Yes

5. How important is salary in your job choice?

*Salary is very important in my job choice because I could provide my own expenses without
asking it from my parents so that I won't be burden to them anymore, and in that way, I could
help also my family from our expenses in life and I could return their sacrifices for me just to be
with my dream, with my salary I could help them to make a better living without minding the
future and with my salary my parents will no longer work for my sake. This time I want to be the
one who'll give them money and let them enjoy their lives and could provide everything they
want.

6. Evaluate the job satisfaction in your chosen career.

*The job satisfaction in my chosen career could be, developing my self-confidence and I could
interact towards other people with different personalities and also new learnings in life that could
be a lesson for me for life, and people that could be part along my journey as a Front Desk and
also high salary that I will gain.