Tourism Industry
People have always traveled to distant parts of the world to see great buildings or other works of art; to learn new languages; or to taste new cuisine. The entire year promises to be a uniquely busy time in the Kingdom of Bahrian.The whole year is a great opportunity to sample the Arab culture and cuisine, slip silently through the sandy regions. The ongoing preservation of the country’s rich art and cultural heritage could be more readily recognizable in the years to come. Benefiting from wealth of vibrant projects, the country has emerged as a thriving, exciting tourist destination. The country likes to brand itself as one of the best shopping centers in the Middle East. A discerning shopper who is looking for something little more sparkly or simply keen on traditional flavor, Bahrain the perfect place.
Tourism………….its a service industry, with various components like transport systems , hospitality services - accommodation, foods and beverages, tours; and related services such as banking, insurance ,rest and relaxation, culture, adventure, new and exciting experiences. Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation and business, and the provision of services for this act. Tourists are persons who are "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited”. The distance between these two places is of no significance.
Tourism may be classified into the following types:
- Inbound international tourism: Visits to a country by nonresident of that country
- Outbound international tourism: Visits by the residents of a country to another country
- Internal tourism: Visits by residents of a country to their own
- Domestic tourism: Inbound international tourism + internal tourism
- National tourism: Internal tourists + outbound international tourism
In order to make travel possible, income or money, time to travel, transport and accommodation facilities are essential. As an individual, everyone needs to be healthy enough too. Added to this, there should always be an inclination to travel. We have had cultural tourism, industrial tourism, literary tourism, military tourism, urban tourism, agrotourism and agri-tourism, Sustainable tourism, ecotourism, green tourism and the recent space tourism.
Though the definition to tourism varies as technology grows, in 1981, International Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism defined Tourism in terms of particular activities selected by choice and undertaken outside the home environment. Thus, the very concept of “mass travel” occurred with two things---improvements in technology that facilitated the travel of a large segment of people in a short span of time to places seeking leisure, and a greater number of people began to enjoy the benefits of leisure time. History says that the father of modern mass tourism was Thomas Cook who, on 5 July 1841, organized the first package tour in history, by chartering a train to take a group of temperance campaigners from Leicester to a rally in Loughborough, some twenty miles away.
However it was with cheap air travel in combination with the package tour that international mass tourism developed. The postwar introduction of an international system of airline regulation was another important factor. There has been a noticeable and dramatic flourishing trend in tourism over the last few decades. Tourists have higher levels of income to spend and greater time to spend on leisure. They are also better educated and have more sophisticated tastes.
Now a demand for a better quality product in many quarters is evident. This has resulted in the developments in technology and transport infrastructure, and lifestyle.
In the late eighteenth century the word “tourism” was used for “one who tours”. However, this quickly was related to “one who tours for pleasure or recreation” that has dominated in the two centuries since. Tours then were for the wealthy, and were generally quite lengthy, in part because it took so long to get anywhere interesting.
With the considerable pace of growth in science and technology, probably one day communications will be so advanced that we shall all be able to sit back and relax at home and experience our favorite tourist destination through virtual tourism in which electronic visualization would simulate the experience of actually visiting places.
