THB1104 Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality
Week 4: The Tourism System
Tutorial Discussion Questions
1. In groups of 4 or 5, visit the website (www.smarttraveller.gov.au) and find travel advice
on a country that the group is all familiar with but NOT your home country. Briefly outline
the travel advice given and explain how it may impact on the following elements of the
tourism system:
(a) Tourists
(b) Tourist generating region
(c) Tourist destination region
(d) Travel and tourism industry in (b) and (c).
2. In groups of 4 or 5, briefly describe your most recent experiences as a tourists. Choose
one of them and identify which of the four categories in figure 2.3 (Weaver & Lawton,
2014, p.30) it falls and also which purpose or purposes of visit.