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building structures, and geographical features such as
rivers, seas, mountains, deserts and time zones

Tourism income multiplier (TIM): Exaggerated effect

of a change in tourism expenditure on an area's income.

tourism industry: a group of businesses that provide
services and facilities for consumption by tourists

Tourism Industry: Tourism Industry is an industry that
would cease to exist or would continue to exist only at
significantly reduced levels of activity in the absence of

tourism.

tourism infrastructure: roads, railway lines, harbours,
airport runways, water, electricity, other power supplies,
sewerage disposal systems and other utilities to serve not
only the local residents but also the tourist influx (suitable
accommodation, restaurants and passenger transport

terminals form the superstructure of the region)

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.

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