Tourism Report: Leiper's System, Hospitality, and Impacts

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the tourism industry, beginning with an explanation of Leiper's tourism system and its elements. It applies Turner's three-stage analysis of pilgrimage to Elvis Presley fans' visits to Graceland, explaining why this is considered a secular pilgrimage. The report further examines the rise of backpacking as a form of youth travel and the tourism industry's response. It explores Thomas Cook's role in facilitating travel and the impact of the industrial revolution. The report differentiates between induced and autonomous destination images, discusses the stages of Butler's tourism area life cycle, and examines Leiper's elements of tourist attraction. The report then analyzes the multiplier effect in tourism, the impact of leakage, the positive and negative effects of tourism on culture, and the concepts of authenticity and staged attractions. Finally, it defines hospitality and the services offered by various businesses, clarifying the connection between the hospitality and tourism industries, and addresses the dependency of tourists on the hospitality sector.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Explain Leiper’s tourism system. What are the elements of Leiper’s tourism system?..............1
Apply THREE-STAGE Turner’s analysis of pilgrimage to the visits off Elvis Presley fans in
Graceland. Why this visit is regarded as secular pilgrimage?.....................................................1
Why has backpacking become a major form of youth travel in recent times?In what ways has
the tourism industry supplied goods and services for the backpackers?.....................................2
In what ways Thomas cook facilitate travel for large number of people? Why did Thomas
cook thought travel is important? How did the industrial revolution contribute to development
of tourism?...................................................................................................................................2
How does an induced image of a destination differ from an autonomous image of destination?
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Difference between involvement stage and development stage in Butler’s tourism area life
cycle?...........................................................................................................................................3
Difference between involvement stage and development stage :................................................3
According to Leiper's elements of tourist attraction how do the primary, secondary and
territory nuclei differ from each other?.......................................................................................3
Impact of multiplier effect work in tourism industry. Examples of How benefits can be
increased? Impact of leakage on the economy of destination place?..........................................4
Presehnting positive and negative effect of tourism on culture of a destination and defining
terms one tourist attraction with issue of authenticity and staged attraction...............................4
Explaining hospitality and services offered by different types of businesses associated with it 4
Defining ways is the hospitality industry connected with tourism industry................................5
Do all tourist depend on hospitality industry? Provide reasons..................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Tourism is related to traveling away from home in order to have relaxation, recreation
and pleasure. Tourism industry provide various services to customers to enjoy their holidays.
Tourism includes various activities such as tour operator services, transportation, travel agencies
etc. Tourism assist in providing traveling services to specific destination. This task will provide
understanding of Leiper’s tourism sector. Furthermore, It will apply Three -Stage turner’s
analysis of pilgrimage. Moreover, It will explain about hospitality and various services offered
by hospitality organizations. This study will also include about interconnection between
hospitality industry and tourism industry.
Explain Leiper’s tourism system. What are the elements of Leiper’s tourism system?
Leiper’s tourism system shows about the tourist original place and the target destination.
This model assist tourism in attracting customers. Leiper model consist of three elements: human
element, geographical element and industrial element. Human element consists of tourist.
Tourist are most important part of tourism industry without tourist tourism cannot perform its
activities. Tourist are the consumers of tourism system which are offered with tourism services.
Geographical element consists of tourist generating regions, transit routes and tourist destination
regions. For example tourism attract with different natural sites such as national parks and
wildlife sanctuaries.
Apply THREE-STAGE Turner’s analysis of pilgrimage to the visits off Elvis Presley fans in
Graceland. Why this visit is regarded as secular pilgrimage?
According to Turner's three-stage of pilgrimage there are three- stages of rituals which
consist of separation, liminality and reintegration. These stages of turner model define structure
and progression of rituals. Separation in turner's model is related to separation from everyday
activities, social relation and cultural conditions are included in response of some crisis either in
individual life or in society life. Individual involvement is everyday social life is included in this
stage. Liminality is the second stage under turner's analysis which is related to exit from social
life and entering into threshold phase where everybody notions of identity, time and space are
included. This stage involves in motivating the rituals. Liminal phase include structure and anti –
structure . Reintegration is the last stage under Turner's analysis which consist of individual re
corporation in normal social life to have understanding of pilgrimages and to know about their
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role in society. These stages of Turner's analysis are applied in the visit of Elvis Presley fans in
Graceland as this place is tourist attraction place in Graceland . This visit is secular pilgrimage as
it is not related to rituals but then also tourist visit this place to experience the journey of Elvis
parsley.
Why has backpacking become a major form of youth travel in recent times?In what ways has the
tourism industry supplied goods and services for the backpackers?
Backpacking is a low cost travel includes public transport, inexpensive lodgings such as
youth hostels etc. Backpacking includes adventures and travel to nearby countries. Backpacking
is famous in youngsters because it is related to adventurous trips with friends to experience
different places and make memories. Backpacking travel assist in attracting youth tourist in
tourism industry which will assist the tourism industry in generating more revenue. Backpacking
is becoming popular in recent times as youngsters are attracted in experiencing new adventures
with their friends .It involves hiking / trekking and camping with food supplies and camping
equipment. Tourism supply various products and services for backpackers to make their trips
memorable , The trip ad visor is assigned with backpackers to assist them in their journey and
they make available with every requirement relating to trip such as food, camping requirement
and various other requirement.
In what ways Thomas cook facilitate travel for large number of people? Why did Thomas cook
thought travel is important? How did the industrial revolution contribute to development of
tourism?
Thomas cook provide various facilities to its tourist in order to make their trip
memorable. Thomas cook manage large number of people by identifying their needs and then
making all the arrangements. Thomas cook provide various transport facilities such as buses ,
cars, airlines and various other vehicles according to customer demand. Thomas cook thought
travel is important because it provides recreational and leisure activities to people to enjoy their
free time and experience new things. Industrial revolution contributed in the development of
tourism by increasing the transportation facilities and various other new methods to reduce the
time in traveling. Industrial revolution has provided various benefits to tourism which assisted
them in providing safe , easier and faster travel.
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How does an induced image of a destination differ from an autonomous image of destination?
Destination image is related to demand and supply agents that provides tourism with
proper destination for their travel. Induced destination image of a place is a result of overall
advertising and marketing efforts to attract customers to that place. Autonomous image of
destination is provided by different people that visited that place. It is an informal information
obtained by people regarding specific destination. Autonomous destination image is created by
family, friends, relatives etc.
Difference between involvement stage and development stage in Butler’s tourism area life
cycle?
Butler’s tourism area life cycle includes carrying capacity and sustainability. These life
cycle has provided with tourism evolution and this life cycle incudes six stages which consists of
Exploration stage, involvement stage, development stage, consolidation stage, stagnation stage
and the decline scenario.
Difference between involvement stage and development stage :
The involvement stage : This stage of Butler’s life cycle include involvement of local
residents to be involved in tourism in order to know about their taste and preferences.
Involvement stage also include various secondary facilities provided by tourism such as guest
house etc. This stage of Butler’slife cycle lays pressure on government to improve transport
facilities for tourist.
The development stage: The development stage consider increased number of tourist that
exceed local population. Tourism industry in order to increase its brand image must use high
advertising techniques. Natural and cultural places will be developed by visitor’s attraction. Big
companies by identifying the potential of area as tourist resort and they start investing in that
region which will bring development in that region. Big companies sell travel packages and
various other services to gain visitors attraction.
According to Leiper's elements of tourist attraction how do the primary, secondary and territory
nuclei differ from each other?
Primary nuclei is related to place, a potential tourist destination that assist in influencing tourist
regarding which place to visit. Secondary nuclei is an attribute related to person pre- visit, but
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not important in decision making. Territory nuclei is an attribute unknown pre- visit which is
discovered by individual after arriving at a destination place. For example place for film.
Impact of multiplier effect work in tourism industry. Examples of How benefits can be
increased? Impact of leakage on the economy of destination place?
Multiplier effect is related to result of services offered which create wealth and positive
effect in an area. Tourism create employment opportunity in particular area which will attract
money to spend on different things. Multiplier affect provide benefits to tourism industry by
increasing their final income by creating various job opportunities. For example it creates job
opportunities in this sector that assist in economic growth. Leakage affect the tourism industry as
it reduces the income of tourism industry by way of increase in prices due to inflation, cultural
issues etc which affect the economy of a destination place and thus reduce in number of tourists
to that destination.
Presehnting positive and negative effect of tourism on culture of a destination and defining
terms one tourist attraction with issue of authenticity and staged attraction.
Cultural impact refers to changes in arts, customs, rituals and architecture of people.
Positive impact of tourism refers to prevention and retention of cultural heritage whereas
negative impact of tourism refers to loss of authenticity and meaning of traditional art and craft.
Homogenization in cultural impact is an aspect of cultural globalization and it is related to
reduction in cultural diversity. Cultural preservation is related to prevention and retention of
cultural heritages. Commodification refers to using a place culture and cultural artifact to make
profits to support part of the area's economy. The tourist attraction with issue of authenticity is
El Vizcaino world heritage site and staged attraction is Maccannell. Budget traveler will visit this
type of attraction sites as they are less costly.
Explaining hospitality and services offered by different types of businesses associated with it
Hospitality term is related to providing guest with entertainment in order to make a
friendly environment. Hospitality services are provided to guests and strangers in order to make
them feel comfortable. Hospitality industry includes different types of sectors such as hotel,
restaurant, food and beverage sector and tourism sector. Hospitality industry includes different
types of services such as lodging, event planning, theme parks, transportation, cruise line etc. for
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example, TUI is involved in hospitality business providing its customers with different services
that includes transportation, accommodation services , food services and many more.
There are different types of hospitality business which are providing various services to
its customers. Hotel sector of hospitality business provide services to its customers such as
accommodation services, free Wi-Fi, food services and many more in order to fulfil customers
demands. Travel and tourism sector of hospitality business provide customers with various
facilities such as trip relating services, transportation of passengers from one place to another by
use of airline, car, bus and train etc. Restaurant in hospitality business provide food services to
their customers in order to increase their customers by providing high quality food to its
customers. Event and conference in hospitality business assist the organization in increasing their
skills and have knowledge about various opportunities in order to become successful. Hospitality
industry helps in contributing the economy of country. Hospitality business provide these
services to attract more customers in order to increase their customer base to gain profitability
and their market share. Different services provided by different types of hospitality business
assist in attracting customers towards the brand. For example Tourism organization such as TUI
provide services such as room facilities, food services, etc.
Defining ways is the hospitality industry connected with tourism industry
The hospitality industry provides various services to customers such as accommodation,
transportation, food and beverage, recreation and leisure. Tourism is the activity which is
performed by tourists in which they are engage in travelling to specific destination where they
can enjoy their holidays and experience recreational and leisure activities. Hospitality industry is
also known as supplier of services of tourism. Hospitality industry provide the services to tourist
in order to make them feel comfortable and they can enjoy their trip.
Hospitality industry provide good quality products to tourist such as they maintain food
hygiene while preparing food for tourist. They provide services to tourist in order to increase
their customer base in order to improve their brand image and make profits. Hospitality industry
provide various travel packages to tourist in order to retain them in business. Hospitality industry
maintain proper cleanliness of the place of destination in order to attract more customers towards
that place. There is a strong connection between hospitality industry and tourism as hospitality
industry is the supplier of services in tourism industry.
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Tourism industry include services of transportation and various services which are
offered to tourists in order to make their trip successful. Interconnection between hospitality
industry and tourism assist the industry in retaining the visitors. Facilities provided by
hospitality industry consist of high quality to fulfill the demands of tourist regarding their trip.
For example : TUI is connected with First choice to provide best quality services.
Do all tourist depend on hospitality industry? Provide reasons.
Yes, all tourist depends on hospitality industry because hospitality industry provide
various services to tourist which assist them in enjoying their trip. Hospitality industry provide
various facilities to tourist in order to have better experience in their journey. Tourist are
provided with various transport facilities such as bus, airline, rail and car to reach the destination
easily and safely.
The main reason for which tourist depend on hospitality industry is that they provide all
the facilities and services which tourists demand to make their trip successful. Hospitality
industry arrange everything which the tourist demand such as accommodation, food, transport,
etc. Tourist are dependent on hospitality industry because they provide them information about
the destination place which the tourist don't know. Tourist by purchasing the travel package can
enjoy their trip without any hindrances. For example : TUI provide accommodation, food ,
transport and various other services.
CONCLUSION
From the above study it has concluded about tourism which is related to providing
services to tourist regarding their travel to a specific destination. This task has provided with
understanding of Leiper’s tourism system and its various elements in order to attract more
visitors. This assignment has also applied THREE -Stage Turner’s analysis of pilgrimage to visit
Elvis Presley fans in Graceland. It has also explained about backpacking in youth travel.
Furthermore, it has provided with difference between involvement stage and development stage
in Butler’s tourism area life cycle.
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