TOURISM

India, China and Brazil they type of tourism

India, China and Brazil they type of tourism

Introduction

This study is primarily concerned with international tourist travel experience in China, Brazil and India. International tourism has been defined by the United Nations as traveling across international borders for more than twenty-four hours for the purposes of leisure, business, convention and visiting relatives and friends (UN 1963, 5). Mass international tourism has developed rapidly since World War II as a result of growing affluence associated with more leisure time in the most industrialized and urbanized countries, and change of deeply embedded values in Western society about play and work (Senior 2007; Macintyre 1985).

Every year, millions of people cross international frontiers with widely different motivations, and they anticipate experiencing different things in foreign countries. Various typologies of tourists have been developed by sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists on the basis of modes of the tourist experience, role playing and kinds of leisured mobility undertaken by tourists (Smith 2004).

Discussion

The focus of the study is therefore on the touristic experience derived from such form of leisure travel. It follows from the above discussion that “spatial supply” is an inherent part of the development of international tourism. “Spatial supply” comprises two kinds of landscapes: (a) landscape of resorts and attractions, (b) landscape of accommodations and other facilities. Geographical landscape study thus serves as one of the major research themes in the geographical study of contemporary international tourism. Geographer Franceso Ferrarlo noted that tourism is a landscape industry (1976, 1). The landscape, both natural and man-made, is the essential stage setting that must be managed for touristic experiences (Clay 2005). The geographical landscape study on international tourism involves three aspects: (a) landscape perception; (b) landscape created by tourism development; and c) landscape as tourist attractions.

Profile of tourist to these countries

From above chart it is observed that most of the tourist visited to India, China and are Brazil are from age group 18-24. With the rapid increase of American tourists coming to these contries in the past few years, the range of options for group travel has considerably expanded to offer more choices in format, tire span, itinerary and cost (Kaplan et al. 2006).

Brazil's tourism infrastructure is very poorly regarded worldwide and the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) ranked 95th out of 130 countries for ground transport infrastructure and 58th in terms of information and communications technology infrastructure.

Tourist Products

Of the varied types of tourists, this paper is essentially concerned with the leisure holiday tourists who voluntarily visit a foreign place for the purpose of experiencing a change and who employ organized package tour products which last at least two weeks. A package tour, prepared by the tour operators, includes international transportation, accommodations, tour itineraries and tour guides in the destination areas. Its purpose is to reduce the stresses of travel and strangeness of the foreign country (Smith 1987).

Organized packaged tours have become a major form of contemporary leisure ...