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systems, roads, communications networks, and

many commercial facilities.

The tourism superstructure includes facilities

constructed primarily to support visitation and

visitor activities. Primary examples are airports,

railroads, roads, drives, parking lots, parks,
marinas and dock facilities, bus and train station

facilities, resorts, hotels, motels, restaurants,
shopping centers, places of entertainment,

museums, stores, and
similar structures. For the most part, the

operating sectors of the industry are part of the

built environment and provide much of the

superstructure or facilitate access to

the physical supply.

3. Operating sectors. The operating sectors of

the tourism industry represent what many of the

general public perceive as “ tourism. ” First and

foremost, the transportation

sector, comprised of airlines, cruise lines,

motorcoach companies, taxis, limousines,

automobiles, aerial tramways, and so on, typify

the movement of people in travel .Because

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