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| accounting | a service activaty of business designed to accumulate, measure, and communicate financial information to various decision makers |
| business | An organization opeerated with the objective of making a profit from the sale of goods and services |
| cartography | The science or art of making maps and interpreting mapped patterns of physical and human geography |
| convenience charges | Additional charges added to basic services that are designed to increase profitability |
| host community | A town or city that welcome visitors and provide them with desired services |
| human(cultural) geography | The human activities that shape the face of a location and shared experiences,including thr cultural aspects of language,religion, and political and social structures |
| leisure travel | travel for personal interest and enjoyment |
| management | the distinct processes of planning,organizing,directing, and controlling people and other resources to achieve organzational objectives efficiently and effectively |
| marketing concept | an overall organizational philosophy that is focused on understanding and meeting the needs of customers |
| marketing mix | those things that an organizational can do to influence the demand for its goods and services. |
| mass tourism | twentieth-century phenomenon whereby the working and middle classes began traveling in large numbers for leisure purposes |
| model | a simple representation showing how important features of a system fit together |
| physical geography | the natural features of our planet,including such things as climate, land masses, bodies of water, abd resoureces |
| professional travel | travel by individuals to attend meetings and conventions |
| profits | revenues in excess of expenses representing the financial performance and the ultimate measure of the financial success of a business |
| regional geography | the components of geography that focus on regional landscapes,cultures,economies,and political and social systems |
| return on investment(ROI) | a measure of managements efficiency,showing the return on all of an organizations assets |
| services | the performance of actions or efforts on behalf of another |
| tourism | the temporary movement of people to destinations outside their normal places of work and residence,the activities undertaken during their stay in those destinations, and the facilities created to cater to their needs |
| tourism satellite accounts | methodological framework that uses common classifications and definitions to measure economic impacts of tourism on a national basis |
