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Tourism
TOurism Midterm
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Undergraduate 1
10/10/2006

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Term
Symbol of Hospitality
Definition
Pineapple
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Seven Deadly Sins of Service
Definition
o Apathy
o Brush Off
o Coldness
o Condensation
o Robotics
o Rule Book
o Runaround
Term
Person who visits country other than where they reside for no more than one year
Definition
Visitor
Term
Person who travels to a site and retuns the same day for non buisness purposes.
Definition
Excusionist
Term
Perons who resides for more than a year
Definition
Resident
Term
1st Age of Toruism
Definition
Travlers on Foot ,Phonicials, Trade, Romans etc
Term
2nd Age of Tourism
Definition
Railway
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3rd Age of TOurism
Definition
Automobile
Term
4th Age of Tourism
Definition
Air Travel
Term
1)Right to fly across another nation's territory
2) Right to land in another country
3) " disember passengers and cargo
4) " pick up passengers and cargo
5) " transport pasenger and cargo
6) "carry trafic from a foriegn country to home nation and bey
Definition
6 freedoms of air travel
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5th Age of Torurism
Definition
Cruises
Term
6th Age of Tourism
Definition
Internet
Term
International Air Transpertation association, known for IATA #
Definition
IATA
Term
New money spent by tourists is then respent by hotels and resaturants in the community for goods and services.
Definition
Multiplyer Effect
Term
When money must be spent outside the community for goods unavauaable within the community.
Definition
Leakage Efect
Term
Real Estate investement Trust
Definition
A bunch of owners, board of dirctors
Term
Leadership
Attention to Detail
Follow Through
People Skills
Paitence
Ability to Deligate
Definition
Qualities of a sucessful General Manager
Term
General manager
Directors of - HUMAN RESOURCES / FOOD AND BEVERAGE / ROOMS DIVISION / MARKETING AND SALES / ENGINEERING . ACCOUNTING(CONTROLLER)
Definition
The Executive Committee
Term
The First Travelers
Definition
Phonecians also accomplicsed sailors
Term
First to lesiure travel
Definition
Romans
Term
Typical Commison for a travel agent?
Definition
10 percent (check)
Term
PBX
Definition
Public Brance Exchange
Term
PMS
Definition
Property Management System is a comptuer program used to make resrevations, manage rooms, Guest Accounts. HR is not a part of PMS because of security resons
Term
Typical Food Costs
Definition
Are 28 - 32 Percent. Caculated Food Costs / Food Sales
Term
When & Where did Timeshare begin
Definition
French Alps, 40 years ago. 1966
Term
Three Types of Vacation Ownership
Definition
Fixed, Floating & Points
Term
Of the three kinds of vacation ownership what is the most prevalet
Definition
Points
Term
Which state has the most vacation ownership
Definition
Orlando, Florida
Term
How many Homes in America own Vacation Ownership
Definition
3.9 Million
Term
Patron Saint of Cooking
Definition
Auguste Escoffier
Term
SMERF
Definition
Social, Military, Educational, Religious, Fraternal, indicating a market segment for the sales of banqueting rooms and meeting facilities
Term
First Hotel in United States
Definition
City Hotel in Baltimore.
Term
Tremont House
Definition
Oldest Operating Hotel in US
Term
Caclulate Occupancy
Definition
Rooms Occupies / Rooms Avaiable.

80 / 100 = 80 percent
Term
Calculate Average Daily Room Rate (ADR)
Definition
Total Rooms Revenue / Total number of Rooms sold
Term
Hotel Revenue Manager Responisiblities
Definition
Balance occupancy, review functions of staff.
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