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Chapter 1 Vocab
Tourism
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Airbnb Host | is a property owner or manager who rents out their space or a private room to travelers on a short-term basis through the Airbnb Platform. |
| Ancillary Products | in tourism are extra, optional goods and services sold alongside core travel bookings like flights or hotel rooms. |
| Ancillary Revenue Manager | An ( ) in the tourism and hospitality industry is a professional who creates and runs plans to make extra money from services outside of core bookings like rooms or tickets. |
| Authenticity | In tourism, ( ) means experiencing a destination, culture, or activity in a way that feels genuine, unscripted, and true to local traditions rather than artificially staged for visitors. |
| Business Travel | is any trip undertaken for specific work or professional purposes outside of an individual's usual home and workplace. |
| Corporate Travel | business tourism, is when employees travel away from their normal home and workplace to do professional work. |
| Events | is a specialized sector of the tourism industry where travel is motivated by attending or participating in a planned event, such as a cultural festival, sporting competition, concert, or business convention. |
| Globalization | is the process where travel and tourism connect economies, cultures, and societies around the world. |
| Grand Tour Era | was a 17th- to early 19th-century custom where wealthy, upper-class young men from Northern Europe traveled through continental Europe as an educational rite of passage |
| Hospitality | is the friendly, generous practice of welcoming, serving, and caring for guests, visitors, or travelers to make them feel comfortable and valued. |
| Incentive Travel | is a global management tool that uses an all-expenses-paid trip to reward and motivate employees, partners, or sales teams for achieving specific business goals. |
| Influencer Marketing | is a strategy where travel brands and destination boards partner with social media creators to promote locations, hotels, and experiences through personal storytelling and visual content |
| Leisure Travel | is any trip taken outside of your usual environment for personal enjoyment, relaxation, or vacation rather than for work. |
| Niche Tourism | is a specialized sector of the travel industry that targets a specific group of travelers with unique, shared interests or activities rather than the general public. |
| Online Travel Agent | is a web-based digital platform that allows travelers to search, compare, and book travel products—such as hotels, flights, car rentals, and vacation packages—directly over the internet. |
| Package Vacation/Holiday | is a single travel booking that combines two or more travel services—such as transportation, accommodation, car rentals, or guided tours—sold together at a single, inclusive price. |
| Peak Time | is the specific time of year when a destination receives its highest number of visitors |
| Sustainability Consultant | is an expert advisor who helps travel businesses, hotels, and governments protect the environment, support local communities, and maintain economic viability. |
| Thomas Cook | is widely regarded as the father of modern mass tourism and the pioneer of the package holiday |
| Tourism | is the act of traveling away from home for recreation, pleasure, or business, as well as the commercial industry that provides services for these travelers. |
| Travel Insurance Broker | is an independent professional or firm that helps clients find, compare, and purchase specialized travel protection policies from multiple insurance carriers. |
| VFR Travel | a major category of tourism where the primary purpose of a trip or the type of accommodation used involves staying with or seeing people in a personal network |