Tourism: It's about Managing Competitiveness, Too
Robinson, Ken, International Trade Forum
Tourism is a key industry to promote for a country seeking to increase its foreign revenues. For national strategy-makers, both optimism and caution are in order.
Tourism is changing. Only a generation ago, relatively few people travelled abroad; if they did, it was usually to easily accessible and familiar places, or further afield mainly in groups. Today, many tourists are more sophisticated, making their own plans and holiday bookings - they are what tourism specialists call 'Free and Independent Travellers'.
Most countries recognize the potential of tourism and seek to increase the number of foreign visitors, which is an opportunity to increase their exports of …
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Publication information:
Article title: Tourism: It's about Managing Competitiveness, Too.
Contributors: Robinson, Ken - Author.
Magazine title: International Trade Forum.
Issue: 1
Publication date: January 1, 2003.
Page number: 17.
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