Glosary by Nayeli Hernandez

tourist activities

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:33:50 UTC

Tourist activities aimed at offering tourists the possibility of spending their leisure and/or vacation time are part of the tourist offer and include a whole series of products, services and activities in which the tourist himself is an active and passive agent of the own tourist activity to develop.

Travel agency

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:35:01 UTC

A travel agency is a company associated with tourism, whose job is intermediation in the organization and execution of projects, plans and itineraries, preparation and sale of tourist products between its clients and certain travel suppliers, such as carriers (airlines, cruises), accommodation service (hotels), with the aim of making tourist goods and services available to those who wish and can use them.

Protected natural areas

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:35:44 UTC

A protected area or protected natural area is a geographical area legally regulated in pursuit of the conservation of its biological diversity. The value of these areas frequently extends to the ecosystem services they provide and their associated cultural diversity.

Bleisure

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:36:22 UTC

Leisure is any activity outside of our obligations and therefore different from work or domestic tasks. It is a recreative time that it is used at the discretion. It is different from time spent on essential activities such as eating or sleeping.

Blitz

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:38:36 UTC

Aerial bombing is an attack carried out from military aircraft against fortified installations, troops, cities or buildings.

tourist load capacity

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:39:01 UTC

In its simplest definition, the concept of carrying capacity refers to the maximum number of visitors that a certain space / resource / tourist destination can contain; In other words, the limit beyond which the tourist exploitation of a resource/destination is unsustainable because it is harmful.

carnival

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:39:23 UTC

Carnival or carnival is a celebration that takes place immediately before Lent and has a variable date. Traditionally this festival begins on a Thursday and ends the following Tuesday. The carnival combines elements such as costumes, groups that sing songs, parades and street parties.

historical Center

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:39:48 UTC

The historic center is called the original urban nucleus of planning and construction of an urban area, generally the one with the greatest social, economic, political and cultural attraction, which is characterized by containing the assets linked to the history of a certain city, from the culture that gave rise to it, and in accordance with the terms of the respective declaration or by determination of the law.

Turistic center

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:40:15 UTC

A resort is a place that has been developed specifically to attract tourists and offer them a variety of activities and services. Resorts can range from resorts with luxury facilities to theme parks and recreational areas.

resort

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:40:37 UTC

A resort is a type of accommodation that offers, beyond accommodation and food, places for relaxation and recreation. The closest thing to the translation of the term resort is tourist complex.

city break

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:41:15 UTC

City breaks are a great alternative for tourists looking to spend their weekend, free days or holidays in a destination where they can visit an exhibition, discover a new tourist attraction or attend a concert, among other things.

tourist circuit

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:41:37 UTC

It is a circular or semicircular route that starts from a sending or receiving center and has attractions and facilities along its route. A tourist circuit is also understood as a tourist route that returns to the same place, without passing through the same place twice.

consolidator

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:42:01 UTC

The consolidator is responsible for filling the container with products that come from different senders and are headed to a single destination. The “multimodal” shipper, when it is necessary to send goods whose volume cannot fill a full container, depends on the consolidator.

tourist corridor

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:42:28 UTC

Communication route between two or more tourist centers, it serves as a travel space for tourist flows.

tourism satellite account

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:42:52 UTC

The Tourism Satellite Account Project (CST) is a set of medium-long term initiatives so that tourism has a macroeconomic analysis framework based on an articulated set of concepts, definitions, accounts and aggregates compatible with the System of Accounts. Nationals.

culture

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:43:18 UTC

he sets of knowledge, beliefs and behavioral patterns of a social group, including the material means that its members use to communicate with each other and resolve needs of all kinds.

destiny

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:43:40 UTC

A local tourist destination is a physical space in which a visitor spends at least one night.

destination management company

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:44:02 UTC

A DMC (Destination Management Company) is an agency that offers global solutions for all types of events and corporate travel. In Spanish they are also known as “local integrative travel agencies.”

ecotourism

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:44:25 UTC

Ecological tourism, ecotourism, landscape tourism or nature tourism is an approach to tourism activities in which observation of the natural environment is offered. It is an alternative, or ecological, style of tourism, different from traditional or mass tourism.

tourism multiplier effect

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:44:50 UTC

The tourism multiplier is a measure that indicates how economic activity varies when tourism spending increases by one unit.

FAM trip

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:45:12 UTC

Familiarization trips (in English fam trips or fam tours) are courtesy trips offered to tour operators or travel agencies so that they can experience a tourist destination firsthand.

Global distribution system

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:45:35 UTC

A global distribution system is a computerized network system owned or operated by a company that enables transactions between service providers in the travel industry, primarily airlines, hotels, car rental companies, and travel agencies.

gentrification

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:45:56 UTC

The term gentrification refers to a given process within the capitalist market economy, which implies the transformation of a deteriorated or declining urban space, based on reconstruction or rehabilitation due to changes in market dynamics and the increase in demand for commercial and residential spaces.

hospitality

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:46:20 UTC

Hospitality is the quality of welcoming and entertaining guests or strangers with kindness and generosity.

hotel

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:46:41 UTC

A hotel is a building planned and conditioned to provide accommodation services to people and that allows visitors to travel.

ecological footprint

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:47:02 UTC

The ecological footprint is a concept created by William Rees and his then student Mathis Wackernagel in 1996, which analyzes the patterns of resource consumption and waste production of a given population; Both are expressed in productive areas necessary to maintain such services.

ecological industry

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:47:25 UTC

The tourism industry has been defined as "the range of companies and organizations involved in the delivery of the tourism product"

itinerary

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:47:48 UTC

Tourist itineraries are planned based on the establishment of objectives and characteristics of the segment to which it is projected. It must be understood as a path to be followed.

motel

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:48:09 UTC

A motel is a characteristic road accommodation, a hotel to rest during a road trip. It usually has one or two floors, and its rooms are accessed through a long corridor from the reception or even exclusively from the parking lot.

convention and visitor offices

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:48:31 UTC

It is a non-profit organization, formed by the State Government to promote the Entity in a neutral manner as an ideal destination for holding Congresses, Conventions, Fairs and Exhibitions.

Overtourism

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:48:53 UTC

Overtourism is congestion or overcrowding due to too many tourists, resulting in conflicts with locals.

tourist package

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:49:14 UTC

Prior reservation of the trip that includes at least accommodation and transportation, although any of these two elements can be replaced by any other service that represents a significant amount of the total price of the trip

tourist resource

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:49:37 UTC

Tourism resources are the natural and anthropogenic elements that attract tourists to a destination. These resources are crucial in the tourism industry as they help create a unique experience for tourists and contribute to the economic growth of a destination.

Fee

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:49:59 UTC

Price payable by the provider of a public service to its users.

tourism

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:50:38 UTC

Tourism is a term that includes the activities carried out by people during their trips and stays in places other than their usual environment for a period of less than one year, for leisure, business or other purposes.

nature tourism

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:51:02 UTC

The Nature Tourism sector includes all types of trips focused on nature, in which the main motivation is the observation and appreciation of biodiversity, accompanied by the culture of local populations.

tourismphobia

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:51:22 UTC

Tourismophobia, formed from tourism and phobia, is how it refers in Spain to acts of vandalism, protests and incidents, including attacks perpetrated against tourists, in different parts of the country, against the saturation of tourists in the historic centers of some cities. Spanish and in protest against a model of tourist massification.

tourist

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:51:45 UTC

A tourist is a person who moves from his or her usual environment to another geographical point, being absent from his or her usual place of residence for more than 24 hours and spending the night in the other geographical point.

touristification

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:52:08 UTC

Touristification is a process by which a place changes by becoming an object of tourist consumption. It leads to negative implications for the touristized location and has received both informal and formal opposition.

visitor

nayellihernandez857 — 2024-07-09 14:52:31 UTC

The concept of visitor for statistical purposes of tourist activity is understood as a person who travels to a place other than their usual place of residence for a period of less than 12 months.