3. Air transportation and modern tourism

In the modern world, traveling is more centered to the annual holidays and can be fairly well predicted. The demand in international and even national transport infrastructures implies a very large number of people who wants to move in an efficient, fast and inexpensive manner. It requires heavy investments and complex organization. Well-organized terminals and intelligently planned schedules are essential in promoting effective transportation facilities for tourists, notably since the industry is growing at a fast rate.

Inducement tour - Tourism now a day not only the personal influence, but it also is group affluence as well, many company to induce their work force arrange tour overseas, which is the significant reason of Group tour. Such as Japanese tour group in Thailand is very obvious example. So, when a big company arranges these types of tour instead to depending on schedule flight they usually seek for chartered flight.

Package Tours - The following example shows how the tour and travel is related to the modern tourism. People would like to maximize their value of traveling considering time limit. Therefore the package tours age becoming popular. Another reason is before they take the tour they know about their expenditures.

Here is some distinctive feature of modern tours :-
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Maldives Honeymoon Tour
Duration: 3 Nights / 4 Days
Destinations : Maldives
Day 01 Male:
On arrival at the Maldives international airport meet our tour representative who will transfer you to the island resort by the means of a speedboat. Check in resort and spend the rest of the day at leisure.
Day 02 Island Beach Resort: - - - - -
Day 03 Island Beach Resort: - - - - -
Day 04 Male:
Morning after breakfast, get transferred to the Male international airport to board your flight to the onwards destination.
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Tourism dominantly takes place in Europe and North America. Traveling has always been an important feature of society. First the explorers traveled the world to learn more about geographical regions, potential markets and to exploit resources. As time moved on as transportation became more reliable definitely the air transportation, traveling became a mundane activity taking place in an organized environment, tourism. The importance of tourism as an economic activity has increased dramatically in recent years.