Tourism products
As we noted in chapter 1, tourism products are complex and multi-facetted. As a result they have generated a considerable debate as to their nature and definition, including whether they are sufficiently different to merit a separate approach to marketing. All products package together utilities and benefits for the consumer. The tradition view of a tourism product has been inherited from economics and is based on the framework of exchange. In tourism, this exchange takes place at a destination and within a particular socio-political, environmental, technological and economic setting. There are two elements to this approach: