Effective marketing channels include destination management organizations and tourism boards, tour operators, guidebooks, media, certification schemes, travel fairs, such as the so called business to business (B2B) and business to consumers (B2C) fairs, internet retailers and consumers' organizations.

It represents a growing distribution channel, complementary to traditional ones, for consumers, tourism enterprises such as hotels, transport companies, leisure companies and distributors, including travel agencies, tour operators and DMOs.

The setting up of joint public private sector arrangements, including tourist facilities and essential services to help promote tourism in the Territory.31

In 2003, the Government continued to pursue diversification of the tourism industry through the Sports Tourism Taskforce.

They are autonomous and are supervised by the Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Head of the Cooperative Development Department at the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism.

Contributing factors for the successful integration of local tourism enterprises into international tourism markets are adequate e tourism strategies that focus on tourism innovation in terms of tourism products and adoption of e business tools such as destination management systems.

20. The tourist industry is the principal economic activity.

Development of sectoral guidelines, e.g., guidelines for tourism, boating, diving, cruise lines, coastal construction and fisheries.

Previously, these services were available only for business to business operations, mainly tour operators and travel agencies.

We train corporate travel agents for the travel industry.

These figures relate only to international travel in most countries the volume of domestic tourism is significantly greater than international arrivals.

The growing adoption of the Open Travel Alliance (OTA) standard based on Extensible Markup Language (XML) greatly facilitates the exchange of information between tourism enterprises such as airlines, hotels, car rental enterprises and travel integrators such as Cendant, Sabre, Expedia, Orbitz, and SITA.

Tourism services comprise advice, information, sale of accommodation, transport, international tourism services and excursions entrance to parks and swimming pools individually or in groups.

Tourism

Tourism.

G. Tourism

45. There is ample potential for the development of a tourism industry in East Timor.

Sustainable consumption in tourism integrates sustainability issues in the selection of destinations and service providers and in the tourists' behaviour during their stay at the destination.

The diffusion of ICTs enables tourism businesses to make tourism products and services directly available to a large number of consumers at a relatively low cost, and to interact with them, as well as with other tourism producers and distributors.

On E Tourism

Tourism niches such as ecotourism one of the fastest growing segments of the tourism industry are increasingly promoted by DMOs in many developing countries, allowing them to diversify their tourism offer.

Tourism services

An important role in engaging tourism businesses is being played by tourism industry associations.

Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism

Up to the end of the 1990s, face to face contact was required and tourism services were distributed mainly by tour operators and travel agents or directly by carriers transporters, fully integrated with global distribution systems (GDS).

5. The economy remains based on tourism and the provision of financial services.

By integrating these SMEs into their DMS, DMOs bring them into the new e business environment of the tourism industry and offer them the technological tools to conduct their operations online.

Eco tourism, cultural and natural heritage tourism, health and medical tourism and adventure tourism are some of the tourism niches that are increasingly marketed by destinations and tourism enterprises in developing countries.

The diffusion of ICTs enables tourism businesses themselves to make tourism products and services directly available to a large number of consumers at relatively low cost, and to interact with them as well as with other tourism producers and distributors.

Tourism and the environment

C. Tourism

I. Tourism

D. Tourism

J. Tourism

F. Tourism

The 2000 census statistics have confirmed Bermuda's transition from a two pillar economy based on tourism and international business to an economy based on offshore financial services with a tourism industry as a support.

Under the Republic of Kazakhstan law on compulsory tour operator and travel agent civil liability insurance (December 2003), compulsory civil liability insurance is being introduced in the Republic for tourism organizations that provide tourism services. According to the law, tour operators and travel agents are obliged to take precautionary measures that ensure the safety of the tourists.

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One example is Thailand, where major milling companies have funded projects to diversify into the tourism industry.

Hotel and catering trade

Ecological tourism development

J. Tourism

F. Tourism V. Social conditions

G. Tourism

Encourages the business sector, in particular the tourism industry and Internet providers, to