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other vacation category can touch a cruise for product
satisfaction
and repeat business.
Growth has affected not only passenger and ship
capacity, but the ports of embarkation as well.
OTHER MODES OF
TRANSPORTATION
While tourists use planes, trains, motorcoaches, taxis,
shuttle buses, boats, and cruise ships to arrive at
destinations, other modes of transportation are also an
integral part of tourism. One of the most important and
easily overlooked is pedestrian travel, or walking.
Tourists and locals alike depend on their feet as a
primary mode of travel.
Tourists are great walkers, covering many miles
sightseeing or using their feet to arrive at an attraction,
sidewalk café , or gelato stand. Thus, it is imperative
that pedestrian environments and the surface where
tourists walk and the areas in which they move are
welcoming and safe. Tourism planners must make
pedestrian travel part of their development plans.
The walking paths by the river in Brisbane, Australia,
are an outstanding example of good planning
benefiting both tourist and locals with an attractive,
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