Components of Tourism

Components of Tourism

Service providers offer the basic component of the tourism business. They consist of providers of transportation, accommodation, and amenities. Tourism is a complex business that depends on the link age of these components. Each element plays an important role in the network of the tourism business. Therefore, the components of tourism and its systems. Processes, relationship and outcomes are studied to understand the roles and functions tourism is managed with system approach whose aim is to simplify the complexities of tourism activities into a number of smaller components. These components are interrelated with a system approach to focus on different perspectives of tourism.

1. Attraction: Attraction is any element or object that attracts people to travel. It motivates people to leave regular job and participate in travel and become tourist. Attractions are those elements, which determine the choice of tourists to visit one destination unless attractions are there, the tourist will not be motivated to travel to a particular place. This element will create the desire and motivate people to travel. Attractions are pre-conditions of travel. it is the magnetic power of tourism. The attractions could be cultural sites, historical building and monuments or scenic like flora and fauna, beach resorts, mountain, national parks or events like trade fairs, exhibitions, sports events, art and music festival, game etc.

                                        Attraction should have two basic character attract and attach first it attracts. The people the second time attraction requires to entertain or to provide pleasure. it attract and attaches. The people to enjoy involve in tourism activities.

                                                Attractions are also divided into two parts manmade and natural attraction. The facilities availability in around the attraction site also affect the desire of a travelers, marketing and promotion also highlight the quality of attraction.

2 Accessibility: Accessibility is another component of tourism .it is the means by which a tourist can reach to the destination and participate with activities. The special feature of the tourism industry is the immovability of product. So the tourist places hotels, resorts should be accessible for the customers. Accessibility is related to the possibility to visit to feel to see or to watch the event to realize or understand and experiences it is related with fulfilling the desire or wants created by attractions. It includes passport, visa, law rules and regulation social environment etc.

Tourism is the result of movement of people and movement asks for transport, So transport is the main component to reach the tourist destination or it is the back bone of tourism industry. Before the development of transport system travel was possible for limited people to the limited places. Because of its limited movement the concept of tourism was not fully developed.

Different forms of transport

a).Road Transport                                            c)Air Transport 

b)Rail Transport                                                                d)Sea Transport

Accommodation: One of the important components of tourism is accommodation it plays active role in the tourist movment.Tourism arises from the movement of people and their stay there are two most important elements of tourism, one is journey to the destination and second is the stay at the destination. The journey is related to transport and stay is related to accommodation.

Tourism is related with tourist and to be tourist one must stay 24 hrs. To stay 24 hrs or overnight there must be the facility of accommodation. So without the facilities of accommodation no tourism is possible.

When people are staying away from home, whether for leisure or on business they need a place that provides the comforts. They need a roof over their head-accommodation, and they need food and drink.

Accommodation are divided in to two groups

A) Served Accommodation(hotel ,motel, resorts)

B) Supplementary Accommodation (dharmasala or non registered rented room, camping caravan site)

Amenities/comforts/facilities: The elements of services added to the any other three components of tourism gives rise to tourism. So, amenities are one of the basic elements of tourism. it is the soul ,the essence of tourism. for example ,simple travelling by bus or by train does not count as tourism. if service is added for the reservation, booking , issuing ticket, providing information it is included with in the tourism.

Amenities are the facilities added to the attractions, accommodation and transportation. These elements themselves do not generate tourist but whose absence might detract the tourist. The facilities complement the attractions.

These included different facilities and service provided by the government, travel agencies or commission agents, hotel, airlines,  transport companies, financial institute, insurance agent etc.

Government and governmental offices are providing different types of facilities. They developed tourist places, provided  passport visa, custom facilities. At the same time Hotels and Airlines are adding different types of facilities into their service.