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2 Main reasons why people travel (leisure, business, VFR )

business tour - It includes travel to attend business meetings such as sales trips,
conferences and trade shows and government business. Business travellers are high
spending and make extensive use of premium fares on train and airlines as well as on
staying in quality hotels.
MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) is the recent growth area in
international tourism and relates to various forms of business tourism.
meeting – are events designed to bring people together fr the purpose of exchanging
information, either from within on company or organization or from a broader spectrum of
people
incentives – it includes travel to a foreign country or domestically as part of a motivational
incentive scheme to increase or reward the employee effort.
conferences- are multi-day events having at least 100 delegates attending the event for the
purpose of exchanging information. If 40% of the delegates originate from outside the host
country, then it is an international conference.
exhibition- involves bringing together people for the purpose of viewing products and
services.