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TOURISM INDUSTRY

The third element of the model is the tourism It is made up of a variety of

industry comprising the variety of businesses businesses and

and organizations responsible for supplying

the tourism product. The model provides for organizations that provide

the location of the different industrial sectors tourism products.

to be identified.

For instance, the tour operators and the The operation of Leiper’s tourism system is

travel agents are primarily set up in the such that there is not only an interaction

traveler-generating region, attractions and between each element of the system but

the hospitality business are located in the with other sectors as well so as to deliver

tourist destination region and the transport the tourism product, to assess the

industry is largely situated in the transit route occurrences and impacts of tourism, and

region. the varied backgrounds influencing the

occurrence of the tourism activity as

represented.

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