IGCSE Travel and Tourism Unit 1 Exam Questions With Revised Answers
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IGCSE Travel and Tourism Unit 1 Exam
Questions With Revised Answers
What is tourism? - answerthe temporary movement of people to destinations outside their
normal places of work and residence
and the activities during their stay in those destinations
What is the Travel and Tourism industry? - ...
IGCSE Travel and Tourism Unit 1 Exam
Questions With Revised Answers
What is tourism? - answer✔✔the temporary movement of people to destinations outside their
normal places of work and residence
and the activities during their stay in those destinations
What is the Travel and Tourism industry? - answer✔✔the mix of businesses and agencies who
work together to serve the needs of people who travel
What are the sub-sectors of the T&T industry? - answer✔✔Transportation
Attractions
Accommodation providers
Catering
Tourism Information and Guiding services
Tour operators
Travel Agents
How do we classify tourists? - answer✔✔Domestic vs International
Leisure vs Business vs VFR
Overnight vs Day trippers
what is a VFR tourist? - answer✔✔visiting friends and relatives
What is an international tourist? - answer✔✔when people from overseas visit your country
What is a Domestic Tourist - answer✔✔taking holidays and trips in your own country
What are the forms of Business tourism? - answer✔✔1. meetings - bringing people together to
exchange information
2. incentives - travel as a reward for employees
3. conferences - multi day events of at least 100 delegates for the purpose of exchanging
information
4. exhibitions - bringing people together to view products
Name the types of business facilities used to host conferences? - answer✔✔Quite a few hotels
and resorts also have a large conference centre to host conferences eg: Sun City
Name the types of business facilities used to host exhibitions - answer✔✔1. Sports stadiums
2. Conference centres
3. Universities
4. Ballrooms
Outbound tourism - answer✔✔travelling to a different country for a visit or holiday
Inbound tourism - answer✔✔visitors from overseas coming into the country
Leisure travel - answer✔✔Travelling to relax and enjoy yourself, outside of work hours.
Business travel - answer✔✔Travel for work or professional purposes
Specialist travel - answer✔✔Travel which offers the kind of experience the customer wants
What are tour operators? - answer✔✔Companies that organise package holidays.
Domestic Tour Operators - answer✔✔these companies put together UK holidays for people
living in the UK, e.g. Shearings, Haven Holidays.
Outbound Tour Operators - answer✔✔these companies put together holidays for UK residents
wanting to go on holiday overseas, e.g. Thompson Holidays, Thomas Cook
Inbound Tour Operators - answer✔✔these companies provide for overseas tourists who want to
travel to the UK, e.g. Pathfinders, GTI Travel
What is the role of the travel agent? - answer✔✔1. Acts as an agent for a principle
2. To sell holidays and ancilliary products
3. To provide customers with information and booking facilities (an information broker)
4. To advise customers
5. Acts as an intermediary to provide info on holiday packages and info on destinations
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