Before making business online, there are risks that must be considered before a tourism company makes the decision. What might be the risks? At least five risks should be considered.
E-commerce needs people with IT background and experience and their pay packets will eat away all the profits and more.
I’m planning to visit Australia as tourist and I live in the Philippines, what are the steps in acquiring a visitor’s visa?
Go to the official Australian immigration site: http://www.immi.gov.au/visitors/tourist/676/index.htm
The cost will be AUD$100.
Ariz. losing ritzy tourists from Mexico
Chris Hawley
Republic Mexico City Bureau
Oct. 25, 2006 12:00 AM
MEXICO CITY – The Ciclope Travel Agency sits in the middle of Polanco, one of Mexico City’s toniest neighborhoods. There’s a Prada clothing store two blocks down the street, and a Rolls Royce dealership just beyond that.
People who live here would be perfectly at home golfing in Scottsdale or unwinding at a spa in Sedona. But few ever do.
"Nobody wants to go to Arizona, except to change planes on their way to Las Vegas," said Adina Gutiérrez, a travel agent at Ciclope.
The number of Mexican tourists flying in to Arizona, the highly desirable "traditional" tourists as opposed to shoppers from Sonora, has dropped from 82,000 in 2002 to 42,000 in 2005. The number of tour operators offering Arizona packages has plummeted from 37 to 18 in the same period, according to the Office of tourism.
Even the number of day-trippers, Mexicans who cross the
Arizona border to shop or dine, has dropped 19 percent since 2002. The 2005 figure of 20.8 million crossings was the lowest in at least a decade, and 2006 is looking even worse, said Alberta Charney, an economist at the University of Arizona.
It’s still unclear if the decline has hurt Arizona businesses, since the amount of money spent by each traveler may have increased, Charney said. In 2001, she conducted a survey that showed cross-border visitors spent $962.9 million in the state.
But the drop in fly-in tourists is a setback because each one spends 14 times more money in Arizona than the day-trippers, and because the Arizona Office of Tourism spends $412,000 a year trying to attract them. The money goes toward advertising, seminars for Mexican travel agents, junkets for Mexican journalists, and running a small office in Polanco.
Sky Harbor Airport spends another $150,000 trying to encourage airlines and travelers to fly into Phoenix.
The decline in tourists has come
has come even as Arizona’s immigrant population is booming.
Tourism officials blame the decline on a lack of direct flights, along with media coverage of the efforts to fortify the Arizona border. Many Mexicans now equate Arizona with border deaths, fences, National Guard deployments and groups like the Minutemen, who are known in the Mexico press as "migrant hunters."
"Arizona has had its fair share of unfavorable press because of some of the things that are happening along our border," said Margie Zimmerman, director of the Office of Tourism.
Another problem is a lack of air service. US Airways has only one direct flight between its Phoenix hub and Mexico City, the wealthiest part of the country. It has no flights connecting the affluent northern city of Monterrey.
Tourism officials are hoping interest in Arizona will rise now that Aeromexico is offering Mexico City-Phoenix flights. They began on Oct. 6.
But travel agents are doubtful. Most Mexicans use travel
packages, and the wholesalers who assemble those deals concentrate on places like Chicago, New York, Florida and Las Vegas.
In a recent copy of Expo-Mayoristas, a biweekly catalog of packages consulted by Mexican travel agents, not a single wholesaler was offering an Arizona package.
"Arizona has these breakfasts where they invite travel agents to learn about their state, but it’s an absurd waste of money because if you don’t have packages at a good price, people won’t buy them," said Eugenia Vadillo, an agent at El Corte Inglés Travel in Polanco.
The guy who says you’re in the Canada section needs new glasses. I’m reading this in the Mexico section.
I suppose it is not farfetched to think that Mexicans who vacation or shop in the US feel that in the border states they are likely to encounter anti-Mexican feeling and so avoid it. If those businesses are hurting, who do they have to blame but themselves?
Everybody up here says they don’t want the Mexicans around, but they are very unhappy when the lack of Mexicans hits them in the wallet. That includes increased prices for meat and produce because of the huge number of Latin Americans (not just Mexicans) who work at slaughter houses and pick crops.
How did tourism start in Rome? How has the tourism and tourist types changed and developed in Rome? Including past and present.
Thanks !
I dunno exactly, but in the ancient time (Roman Empire also) Rome was the main tourist attraction in the world. There was some big Festival and Exhibition that taken place in Colosseum or Terme di Caracalla.
Hi everybody, I would like to do survey for my dissertation. Could you please answer for my questions? Thank you. I will be very obliged and will of course acknowledge your help.
1. Have you ever been to Vietnam and join in one culture heritage tourism tour in Vietnam?
2. Which culture heritage did you visit?
3. What do you think of the potential of Vietnam cultural heritage tourism?
4. What do you think of the Vietnam culture heritage tourism compared with other countries which also have cultural heritage tourism (Thailand, Philippines, etc.)
i dont do many tours , but i know hoi an is a "cultural heritage site " and has a "city tour "which includes old chinese house, a japanese bride and a number of temples /shrines.. ha long bay is i believe another site.. i find tours like that can be boring or fun depending on who you are with.. but there are always bus loads of foreigners making the rounds at these places.. i guess there will always be a market for that sort of travel..
Pollo: Oh my days! :\
Stupidly, you can no longer take liquids more than 100ml through airport security. Ugh.
Hi all,
I am looking for some Boston tourism information, for example, how much tourists spent in 2006, 2005 or 2004? or How much revenue Boston got from Tourism in 2006?
Do you guys know any website mentioned about it(except Wikipedia.com)?
Thank you very much
Try the Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau site http://www.bostonusa.com/
sustainable tourism in its purest sense, is an industry which attempts to make a low impact on the environment and local culture, while helping to generate income, employment, and the conservation of local ecosystems. It is responsible tourism which is both ecologically and culturally sensitive.
http://www.gdrc.org/uem/eco-tour/eco-tour.html
I want to know every thing about tourism.
to be exact….go to wikipedia.com
so basically just general info on the major airlines, ferry operators, and rail operators and how they link in with travel and tourism. Obviously with travel arrangements being crucial etc.
The origins of travelling dates back to hundreds of years ago but at those times, people were only travelling or relocating or trade. Later on, towards the end of middle ages, rich European families started sending their kids to study in other countries… A young man would then travel from lets say London to Amsterdam, to Franfurt, Zurich, Rome, Pairs and back to London some long months later… This was called "The Grand Tour". The idea of travelling for leisure is more recent though. It all began in the mid-19th century when steam trains were introduced in the UK. Before this period, travelling was a hassle as it would take long on carriages and horses so people would only travel if they had to. But with the introduction of trains, cities became closer and as technology advanced, cheaper too. Thos Cook was the first person to introduce package tours in this period. He would arrange a train ticket to a family and also hotel vouchers in their destination. Only domestic travel in the UK of course.. But in time, as economy of Europe boosted and people had more free time and disposible income (the money thats left in your pocket after you pay your rent, bills and other necessary items like grocery shopping and so on). So they stated travelling further. During this period, the southern coast of the UK became a very popular destination. It was even once believed that drinking sea water would solve most of people’s health problems…
Anyway, so it went on like this for many years until jet aircraft were introduced in the 60s. With the new technology, cities became even more closer and tarvelling became much more affordabel. Peple now could fly to Malaga from London in just over 2 hours.
Now, you probably stated seeing the link between different sectors within the tourism and travel industry. For a person to be able to go on a holiday, you need a travel agent to arrange the hotel, transfers and flight tickets. An airline to take people to their destinations, a hotel to accomodate people and various companies to transfer them from airports to their respective hotels… The link is crucial. One wouldn’t exist without the other.
On another issue, travel industry is indirectly linked with many other industries such as: furniture industry (makes furnitures for hotels), construction (building hotels), food industry (supplying food for hotels and airlines), aeronautical industry (building planes), car industy (coaches, rental cars etc) and many more to count…
I am not sure if this was helpful, please e-mail me if you have more specific questions….
P.S: Didn’t check the spelling, so sorry for the mistakes 