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The Importance Of Travel And Tourism

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According to the World Travel & Tourism Council (2003) (WTTC), travel and tourism is the biggest industry in the world on virtually any economic measure, including gross output, value added, capital investment, employee, and tax contribution. Therefore, what is travel? Travel is to move or go from one place to another (Cambridge Dictionaries Online, 2015). A memorable trip that I went is Genting Highlands, Bukit Tinggi and Sungkai. The trip is a family trip. This is a 2 Day 1 night trip. The motivation that motivate we go to travel is because of push and pull factor. Dann (1997) simply explains push factors as the motive that drives a tourist away from home and pull factors as the motives in which drive a tourist towards a destination. Based on the push and pull factor, the push factor that motivate we go to travel is because of the family togetherness and relaxation. The pull factor that motivate we go to travel is because that attraction of the Genting Highland, Bukit Tinggi and Sungkai. Before we travel to the destination that we choose, information search is important. It is because the information search can influence our decision making. When we planning the trip, we need know about the information of accommodation, place of attraction, fee, facility and other. Information search can help us to satisfy our need. According to Maslow’s (1943) hierarchy need, we need to fulfill our lower level needs before attempting to satisfy higher level need. So the information
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