TOURISM

Critically Discuss the Argument For and Against Dis-Intermediation of the Distribution Channel In Tourism

Critically Discuss the Argument For and Against Dis-Intermediation of the Distribution Channel In Tourism

Part 1:

The concepts and practices that have been discussed in the two papers point towards the same factor that the use of internet in modern day business activities, including tourism and hospitality industry has increased by huge amount. Furthermore, the studies also point the fact that due to this hotels are having tough competition from travel agents offering rooms at a much cheaper price than othat offered by the hotels themselves. Moreover, the studies also point out the fact that due to new ways of eMediaries is much different from that of the traditional intermediaries. Thus, suggesting the same fact that Hotels need to change their strategies to tackle these issues. Moreover, I found the writings of Gazzoli, Kim and Palakurthi as being more persuasive than the ideas presented by Buhalis and Licata.

Part 2:

According to the World Tourism Organization, tourism comprises the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for a consecutive period of less than one year and more than one day, for leisure, for business or other reasons. Arthur Bormann, Berlin 1930 Tourism defines the set of trips whose purpose is pleasure or business or professional reasons and the like, and for which the absence of habitual residence is temporary, there are tourism trips made to transferred to the workplace. Walter Hunziker - Kurt Krapf, 1942 said that "Tourism is the set of relationships and phenomena produced by the movement and stay of people away from home, while such movement and residence are not motivated by a lucrative business". The term “tourismology" emerged in the '60s. But it was the Yugoslav Zivadin Jovicic (in their academic geographer), the scientist considered the "father of tourismology" who popularized it when he founded the magazine of the same name in 1972. Jovicic considered that none of the existing science could make the study of tourism in all its dimensions (or geography, or economics, or sociology, etc) on the ground that their contributions are unilateral. This will allow the creation of an independent science, the tourismology (Wilkerson, Chad, 2003, p. 45-72).

Tourism is the act of travel, or travel for pleasure, a place other than where you usually live, which may involve the consumption of a night with a hotel and possibly the book title transport. Initially only linked to leisure and health, tourism also now includes all economic activities in which the person uses during an unusual shift (transport, hotels, restaurants, bars, etc). This may, for example, a business trip (this is called "business tourism") or a pilgrimage religious ("cultural tourism"). One can also seek treatment in another country than where you live, this is called medical tourism. Engage in tourism also allows pausing in his schedule utility imposed by the need to make a living. The tourist is generally concerned with culture or landscapes he ...