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Discrimination: Unequal treatment of persons on grounds
which are not justifiable in law, e.g. in the UK,
discrimination on the grounds of sex or race.

Distribution: The process employed to provide customers
access to the product. For travel products distribution
focuses largely on the ways in which the customer can
reserve or purchase the product.

Disturbance: Accelerated change caused by human

activity or extreme natural events.

Diversification: The process of developing new products
for new markets, in order to achieve business growth.

diversity: variety; multiplicity; range; assortment

domestic escorted tour: a packaged, pre-planned
itinerary, including the services of a tour manager (escort)

within a traveler s own country

domestic independent tour: DIT: a custom-made tour of
a part of the USA planned exclusively for a client by a
travel agent

Domestic supply of tourism commodities: Domestic
supply of tourism commodities is defined as the total
production in Canada of the tourism commodities which

are mainly produced by tourism industries. Not all of
domestic supply is purchased by visitors, so that supply
exceeds tourism demand for the national tourism
indicators (NTI). For example, visitors purchase only a

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