IGCSE Travel and Tourism Unit 1 Vocabulary
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Tourism - ✔️The business of providing and marketing services and facilities for leisure
travelers. The concept of tourism is of direct concern to governments, carriers, and the
lodging, restaurant, and entertainment industries, and
of indirect concern to virtually every industry and business in the world. It is the activities
of people travelling and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more
than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes.
Tourist - ✔️A person who travels for a period of 24 hours or more in a place other than
that in which he or she usually resides, whose purpose could be classified as leisure
(whether for recreation, health, sport, holiday, study or religion), business, family,
mission or meeting
Domestic tourism - ✔️Tourism within one's own country
Outgoing tourist - ✔️A tourist who travels outside of his or her own country
International tourist - ✔️People who travel to other countries
Long haul travel - ✔️Air travel of eight or more hours' duration is considered long-haul
travel.
Short haul travel - ✔️Air travel of less than eight hours' duration is considered short-
haul travel.
Short break - ✔️Short holidays, e.g. a weekend in Ngwe Saung
Visiting friends and relatives (VFR) - ✔️Tourists who visit a place mainly because of
friends and/or family that live there
Occupancy rate - ✔️The proportion of rooms or bed-places in a collective tourism
establishment that is occupied over a fixed period of time e.g. a night, month, year
Tourism receipts - ✔️The expenditures (how much they spend) of international inbound
visitors including their payments to national carriers for international transport. They also
include any other prepayments or payments afterwards made for goods and services
received in the destination country.
Transportation - ✔️The movement of people or goods from one place to another by air,
over land or over water.
, Principals - ✔️Primary suppliers of the travel and tourism industry's products including
transport, accommodation, attractions, local tours and so on.
Duration of stay - ✔️The time spent during a visit measured from the standpoint of the
receiving country or place
Private sector - ✔️Businesses and industries that are not owned or controlled by the
government
Tourist accommodation - ✔️Any facility that regularly or occasionally provides
overnight accommodation for tourists
Miniples - ✔️Smaller, independent travel agencies that are not part of a chain
Multiples - ✔️Travel agencies that are part of a chain
Serviced accommodation - ✔️This means that members of staff are available on the
premises to provide services such as cleaning, meals, and room-service. The
availability of the services, even if they are not used, is included in the price charge.
Self-catering - ✔️Holiday accommodation which includes a kitchen so that
holidaymakers can cook their own meals.
Half board - ✔️A hotel room combined with breakfast and another meal either in the
evening or in the middle of the day
All-inclusive - ✔️A hotel room combined with everything ,usually all soft drinks, juices,
and light alcoholic beverages such as beer and wine, services such as cleaning, and
entertainment options
MICE - ✔️Umbrella term to refer to several aspects of business tourism: meetings,
incentives conventions and exhibitions.
Meetings - ✔️Events designed to bring people together for the purpose of exchanging
information, either from within the company or organisation or from a broader group of
people
Incentives - ✔️A trip offered as a prize, particularly to stimulate the productivity of
employees or sales agents, or the business of operating such travel programmes.
Conferences - ✔️Multi-day events organized to exchange information and that have at
least 100 people attending. It is considered an international event if more than 40% of
the delegates are from outside the host country.
words|Questions With Correct Answers|Verified
Tourism - ✔️The business of providing and marketing services and facilities for leisure
travelers. The concept of tourism is of direct concern to governments, carriers, and the
lodging, restaurant, and entertainment industries, and
of indirect concern to virtually every industry and business in the world. It is the activities
of people travelling and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more
than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes.
Tourist - ✔️A person who travels for a period of 24 hours or more in a place other than
that in which he or she usually resides, whose purpose could be classified as leisure
(whether for recreation, health, sport, holiday, study or religion), business, family,
mission or meeting
Domestic tourism - ✔️Tourism within one's own country
Outgoing tourist - ✔️A tourist who travels outside of his or her own country
International tourist - ✔️People who travel to other countries
Long haul travel - ✔️Air travel of eight or more hours' duration is considered long-haul
travel.
Short haul travel - ✔️Air travel of less than eight hours' duration is considered short-
haul travel.
Short break - ✔️Short holidays, e.g. a weekend in Ngwe Saung
Visiting friends and relatives (VFR) - ✔️Tourists who visit a place mainly because of
friends and/or family that live there
Occupancy rate - ✔️The proportion of rooms or bed-places in a collective tourism
establishment that is occupied over a fixed period of time e.g. a night, month, year
Tourism receipts - ✔️The expenditures (how much they spend) of international inbound
visitors including their payments to national carriers for international transport. They also
include any other prepayments or payments afterwards made for goods and services
received in the destination country.
Transportation - ✔️The movement of people or goods from one place to another by air,
over land or over water.
, Principals - ✔️Primary suppliers of the travel and tourism industry's products including
transport, accommodation, attractions, local tours and so on.
Duration of stay - ✔️The time spent during a visit measured from the standpoint of the
receiving country or place
Private sector - ✔️Businesses and industries that are not owned or controlled by the
government
Tourist accommodation - ✔️Any facility that regularly or occasionally provides
overnight accommodation for tourists
Miniples - ✔️Smaller, independent travel agencies that are not part of a chain
Multiples - ✔️Travel agencies that are part of a chain
Serviced accommodation - ✔️This means that members of staff are available on the
premises to provide services such as cleaning, meals, and room-service. The
availability of the services, even if they are not used, is included in the price charge.
Self-catering - ✔️Holiday accommodation which includes a kitchen so that
holidaymakers can cook their own meals.
Half board - ✔️A hotel room combined with breakfast and another meal either in the
evening or in the middle of the day
All-inclusive - ✔️A hotel room combined with everything ,usually all soft drinks, juices,
and light alcoholic beverages such as beer and wine, services such as cleaning, and
entertainment options
MICE - ✔️Umbrella term to refer to several aspects of business tourism: meetings,
incentives conventions and exhibitions.
Meetings - ✔️Events designed to bring people together for the purpose of exchanging
information, either from within the company or organisation or from a broader group of
people
Incentives - ✔️A trip offered as a prize, particularly to stimulate the productivity of
employees or sales agents, or the business of operating such travel programmes.
Conferences - ✔️Multi-day events organized to exchange information and that have at
least 100 people attending. It is considered an international event if more than 40% of
the delegates are from outside the host country.
