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tourism product: different things to the various

members of the tourism industry. To the hotel it is

`guest- nights'. To the airline it is the `seats flown' and

the `passenger miles'. To the museum, art gallery or

archaeological site, the product is measured in terms of

the number of visitors. For the tourist the product is the

complete experience resulting from the package tour or

travel facility purchased, from the time they leave home

until their return.

Tourism satellite account: System of accounting at

national or regional level which reveals the total direct

impact of tourism on the economy.

Tourism System: A framework that identifies tourism

as being made up of a number of components, often

taken to include the tourist, the tourist generating

region, the transit route region, the tourist destination

and the tourism industry (Leiper, 1990)

tourism: the business of providing and marketing

services and facilities for leisure travelers. Thus, the

concept of tourism is of direct concern to governments,

carriers, and the lodging, restaurant, and entertainment

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