Travel Reference
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TABLE 14.6
Distribution of Tourism Expenditures
Visitors Spend for
Travel Industry Spends for
Ultimate Bene
ciaries
Lodging
Food
Beverages
Entertainment
Clothing, etc.
Gifts and souvenirs
Photography
Personal care
Drugs and cosmetics
Internal transportation
Tours and sight-seeing
Miscellaneous
Wages and salaries
Tips, gratuities
Payroll taxes
Commissions
Music and entertainment
Administrative and general expenses
Legal and professional services
Purchases of food, beverages, etc.
Purchases of goods sold
Purchases of materials and supplies
Repairs and maintenance
Advertising, promotion, and publicity
Utilities
—
electricity, gas, water, etc.
Transportation
Licenses
Insurance premiums
Rental of premises and equipment
Interest and principal payments of
borrowed funds
Income and other taxes
Replacement of capital assets
Return to investors
Accountants
Advertising and public
relations
Appliance stores
Architects
Arts and crafts producers
Attorneys
Automobile agencies
Bakers
Banks
Beach accessories
Butchers
Carpenters
Cashiers
Charities
Chemists
Clerks
Clothing stores
Clubs
Confectioners
Contractors
Cooks
Cultural organizations
Dairies
Dentists
Department stores
Doctors
Dry cleaning establishments
Electricians
Engineers
Farmers
Fishermen
Freight forwarders
Garages and auto repairs
Gardeners
Gas stations
Gift shops
Government
Education
Health
Roads and railroads
Utilities
Development and others
Greengrocers
Grocery stores
Financiers
Furniture stores
Importers
Insurance agencies
Landlords
Laundries
Manufacturing agents
Managers
Motion picture theaters
Newspapers, radio, etc.
Nightclubs
Of
ce equipment suppliers
Painters
Pastoralists
Plumbers
Porters
Printers, sign painters
Publishers
Real estate brokers and
developers
Resorts
Restaurants
Room maids
Shareholders
Sporting events
Transportation
Travel brokers
Taxi, limo services
Unions
Wholesale establishments
Source: Pannell Kerr Forster and Belt Collins and Associates.
depression does occur. Thus, tourism, instead of diversifying an economy, sometimes replaces
agriculture as a
''
subsistence
''
sector.
Dependence on Tourism
Permitting tourism to become the subsistence industry is not desirable, for a number of reasons. First,
tourism is, by its very nature, subject to considerable seasonality.
Although seasonal
fluctuations in demand can sometimes be reduced, they cannot be eliminated.
Thus, when tourism is the primary industry in an area, the off-season periods inevitably result in
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