Travel industry

The travel industry (or travel market ) is a branch of the economy that offers all travel- related services to the traveler .

General

Travel to holidays or business trips to be used as travel purpose either the holiday traffic (or leisure traffic ) or the rush have to content. The customer of the travel industry is the traveler who requests, among other things, means of transport ( train , plane , motor vehicle or ship ), accommodation ( camping , hotel , youth hostel ) or other travel services ( round trip , sightseeing , day trip ) and pays a travel price for them . The travel industry usually acts as a travel agent between the traveler and the organizer ( railway company , airline , hotel). The travel industry accepts both package tours and individual trips .

In the travel market , what the travel industry has to offer , usually presented in a travel catalog , meets the demand from travelers, who pay the travel price in return . Increasing mass tourism has transformed the travel market into a mass market and led to a consumer-friendly design of travel law in the EU member states .

A classic definition of tourism includes the tourism theory founded in Switzerland in 1942: "Tourism is the epitome of the relationships and phenomena that result from travel and the stay of non-residents, provided that this does not result in a permanent settlement and is not associated with gainful employment."

structure

The travel industry is divided into:

• Travel agencies
  • Travel agent ,
  • Incoming agencies ,
  • Outgoing agencies ,
  • local tourist boards and associations;
• other tourism companies
  • Tour operator
  • Package tour operator
  • Charter airlines
  • Hotels
  • Youth hostels
  • freelance tour guides
• Transport company
  • Airlines ,
  • Bus company ,
  • Shipping companies ,
  • Railway ,
  • other passenger transport companies such as taxi companies.

Travel agencies mediate the trips offered by tour operators, especially package tours, through the mostly very extensive travel catalog .

Demarcation

The travel industry must not be confused with the travel industry .

See also

• mass tourism
• Individual tourism

Individual evidence

1. ^ Walter Hunziker / Kurt Krapf, Outline of General Tourism Studies , 1942, p. 43