REC280 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Curbed, Marketing Mix, Destination Marketing Organization

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: REC280
• Professor: Tom Griffin

Document Summary

Tourist destination areas aren"t created overnight, it takes a lot of planning developing and marketing to have the tda be successful. Planning is essential component of profitable tourism. Developed tda will already have these components to move forward at a faster pace. For undeveloped, these components are necessary to satisfy midcentric and psychocentric travellers. Not as necessary for allocentrics as they can give up some of lifes comforts : natural resources. Physical means of supporting tourist such as land, habitual climate, water supply etc. Hawaai and the jasper and banff valleys in canada are good examples: infrastructure. Guts of the city, defined as the first component of a place meant to habituated. Includes roads, swage pipes, docks, railroad tracks, etc: suprastracture. All the buildings found at the destination. Lodging facilities, restaurants, terminals, store etc: transportation system. Actual vehicles that use the infrastructure: hospitality of the host. Includes social and political climate, but involves much more than laws and culture.