Transport and aviation

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TRANSPORTATION



TRANSPORTATION

- The act of being transported

from one place to the other.

- It is very much part of a tourist¶s

experience.



Four modes of transportation:

Road

RailWater

Air



Road Transport

Cars and Coaches dominate this

mode of transportation. Cars

provide tourists with door-to-door flexibility, views of

landscape and an easier means

of transporting recreational

equipment.



Car

The car rental industry has also

emerged over the years

because of the advantages of travelling by car.



Coaches

Coaches usually used or group

tours, transport tourist from the

airport and for their tour of thecity.





Rail Transport

Trains provide people with a more

leisurely sightseeing of the

landscape as they are brought

from one destination to another.



Orient Express Trans-Siberian Railway



Water Transport

Line voyage services, cruise

ships, ferries and inland water

transport make up the range of water transportation that tourists

can choose from.



Line Voyages

Line voyage services offer

passenger transport on a port-

to-port basis.



Cruise

Cruising has been seen as a leisure

activity than a mode of sea

transportation. Tourists were attracted by

its leisure and entertainment facilities as

well as the excursion at the ports.



Residensea's The World

The only condo cruise ship in

operation today



Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines' F reedom

of the Seas



Carnival Cruise Lines' C arnival

Splendor



Ferries

Ferries are used to transport

passengers to a destination,

between destinations, or as ameans of sightseeing within a

destination.





Air Transport

Among the modes of

transportation, air transport has

contributed greatly to the growthand development of the tourism

industry worldwide.



Air Transport

Schedules airlines, also referred to ascommercial airlines, operate onagreed and published schedulesbetween two city destinations.These airlines fly passengers todefined domestic or international

routes where they are given licenseby government and other authoritiesinvolved.



Top 10 airlines worldwide, 2006

1. British Airways

2. Qantas Airways

3. Cathay Pacific

4. Thai Airways

5. Emirates6. Qatar Airways

7. Singapore Airways



Top 10 airlines worldwide, 2006

8. AnA

9. Malaysia Airlines

10. China Airlines





Aviation

Aviation is the broad term used to describe

the industry that builds and flies aircraft.

It is usually subdivided into militaryaviation:

Military Aviation

Civil Aviation



Military Aviation

Aircraft flown by a nation¶s air

force and other branches of its

military.



Civil Aviation

The industry that flies the public

from place to place.



Domestic Service

A flight must start and end within

the borders of the same country.



International Service

The flight starts in one country

and ends in another.



Abbreviations use in ticketing:

F AA- The Federal Aviation Administration

ATA- the Air Transport Association

ARC- The Airlines Reporting Corporation

IATA- The International Air Transport Association

IATAN- The International Airlines Travel

Agent Network TSA- The Transportation Security

Administration



Flight types:

Nonstop Flight

Direct

Flight

Connecting Flight



Itinerary route:

One-way flight itinerary- means that

the traveler just goes from Point A to

Point B.

Round-trip flight itinerary- The traveler

flies from Point A to Point B, stays

awhile, and then returns from B to A.



Itinerary route:

Open-jaw flight itinerary- is

one where the traveler flies from

Point A to Point B, then travelsby ground transportation (e.g.

car rental or rail) from B to C,

then returns by air from C to A.





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