By Nigel Evans

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These organizations usually rely in large part on income over which they have little control – it may, for example, be fixed by central or local government. The objectives set will typically involve extracting the maximum benefit in terms of outputs from the income they have. A destination marketing office for a country, a city or a resort for example, will have a certain income which it uses as carefully as possible to ensure it can deliver as many tourists of required type as possible to the destination within its allocated budget.

The changed perceptions towards food and culture in northern Europe is evidence of this as tourists have gained an insight into other cultures as a result of the increase in travel since the early 1970s. The holidaymakers Krippendorf (1987), in his influential work The Holidaymakers – Understanding the Impacts of Leisure and Travel, discussed aspects of the impact tourists have on their destination. ‘In the early 1960s a leading tourism researcher wrote: Tourism brings [people] together, it is instrumental in their dialogue, it leads to personal contact in which people can understand attitudes and beliefs, which were incomprehensible to them, because they were distant.

The fact that the tourism product is not a physical object but an amalgam of ‘invisible’ services does create certain problems for organizations operating in the sector. To overcome this intangibility, tour operators sometimes attempt to create some form of tangible offering that potential customers can relate to. With the growth in the home ownership of video-recorders and computers for example, tour operators and destinations are now able to record the features of their holidays on video or make them available on the Internet for home viewing by potential customers.

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