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1. Macro Perspective in Tourism and Hospitality MACRO Chapter 3: WHY PEOPLE TRAVEL     Exploring the Hospitality Industry by John R. Walker and Josielyn T. Walker 1 st Edition

2. Why People Travel Chapter:3

3. Pleasure Travel Reasons for Travel To Experience new and a different surroundings To experience other cultures To rest and relax To visits friends and family To participate in sporting or recreational activities Visiting Friends and relatives (VFR) Health, Beauty Enlightenment, Education Nature and National parks Sports, Festivals, Entertainment Heritage and Ecotourism Attractions

4. Business Travel Business Travelers are those who travel for business purposes such as: Corporate meeting Regional Meeting Conventions Trade Shows Expositions

5. Sustainable Tourism Tourism that meets the needs of present tourists and host regions while protecting and enhancing opportunities for the future. Tourism Policy and Development to improve the quality of its environment and resources.

6. Sustainable Tourism Sustainable Tourism Includes Infrastructures Roads Water Sewage Communications and stores Superstructures

7. Superstructures Facilities built to accommodate tourist, such as:

8. Ecotourism A form of sustainable tourism define as responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well being of local people.

9. Ecotourism at a Glance Promotes Biodiversity Promotes conservation Maximize the Environmental Impact of Tourism Increases Knowledge of Culture and the Environment Sustains the livelihood of the locals

10. Principles of Ecotourism Minimize Impacts Build Environmental and Cultural awareness and respect Provide positive experience for both visitors and hosts Provide direct financial benefits for conservation Raise Sensitivity to host countries’ political, environmental and social climates Support international human rights and labor agreements.

11. Environmental Impacts of Tourism

12. Environmental Impacts of Tourism

13. Cultural Tourism is the subset of tourism concerned with a traveler's engagement with a country or region's culture, specifically the lifestyle of the people in those geographical areas, the history of those people, their art, architecture, religion, and other elements that helped shape their way of life. It allows travelers to be immersed in local rituals and routines, taking away not only pretty photos but also shared memories of unique experiences. For destinations, it encourages local communities to embrace their culture and boosts economic growth.

14. Heritage Tourism "traveling to experience the places, artifacts and activities that authentically represent the stories and people of the past.

15. Challenges in Heritage Tourism increased visitation will not destroy the qualities that attract tourist in the first place. No smokestacks or dangerous chemicals

16. Nature Tourism responsible travel to natural areas, which conserves the environment and improves the welfare of local people. It is tourism based on the natural attractions of an area.

17. Nature Tourism

18. Nature Tourism

19. What does this mean to you? Instruction. In your own understanding explain and elaborate the following tourism/travel quotations.1/2 crosswise “A traveler without observation is like a bird without wings” “Take nothing but pictures, Leave nothing but footprints, Kill nothing but time”