distinguish between tourism and hospitality
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Tourism basically refers to a combination of various services and facilities offered to any traveler or tourist travelling to any particular destination which is outside of their residential environment.
Hospitality is a general term which signifies the providence of various charitable and hospitable services to someone such as offering food,shelter,accommodation and other related services or facilities.
Explanation:
From a conceptual point of view,tourism is a part of the overall hospitality industry.Hospitality indicates providence or offerance of various hospitality or charitable services or facilities to anyone under a general circumstance.Tourism implies the confinement of the identical concept or the general idea of hospitality into a particular instance or setting.It involves providence of various services or facilities such as food,lodging,information of different places and sightseeing facilities,providing shopping guides of any particular place or geographical destination to a any particular tourist or traveler visiting a place for various purposes such as recreational,business or educational.
From an occupational or professional standpoint,a student or practitioner of tourism is often employed particularly in travel agencies,tour operators,destination public relations(PR) institutions and so forth.On the other hand,a graduate in hospitality management usually has a wider scope of employment such as working in different managerial or staff level positions or designations in hotels,resorts,home stays,restaurants,motels and so forth.
Therefore,both from a theoretical/conceptual and professional/occupational standpoint,hospitality represents a broader spectrum compared to tourism and activities and scope of tourism are actually confined within this comprehensive spectrum of hospitality management.