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The planning of tourism

3 December, 2015 - 16:08

Learning objectives

At the end of this chapter the reader will be able to:

  • Understand why a tourism destination should have a development plan.
  • Identify the components of a tourism development plan.
  • Realize the importance of basing a plan on objective data and identify how that data can be collected.
  • Define and correctly use the following terms: allocentrics, midcentrics, psychocentrics, product life cycle curve, integrated planning, secondary research, primary research, representative sample.