HTT 303 Midterm: All Lecture Notes for Midterm

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Hospitality/Tourism
• Course: HTT 303
• Professor: Michael Hunter

Document Summary

Domestic tourism (is bigger than international 75-80% is domestic: shorter distance, shorter in duration (most people only have a weekend off, cheaper because its less distance and duration. World"s most popular destinations: france, usa, china, spain. Italy: turkey, germany, uk, russia, malaysia, canada. Europe has a large population, lot of family ties, countries are close together. City destinations: bangkok, london, paris, singapore, new york. Top leisure travels earners: u. s, spain, france. Which countries are the world"s top pleasure tourism & spenders: china, germany, usa, uk, russia, france, canada. Rising income in east asia produce the fastest travel market. Asian economy i 10 years will be bigger than europe & americas combined. China & india will be the largest economy in the planet. ***ads- approved destination status. (chinese weren"t allowed to leave and go elsewhere. So the gov. of china lets 1 billion people and give ads and canada is on the list. ) The chinese are the nouveaux riches of tourism.