Describe a tourist destination located in your country

Describe main sectors of travel and tourism industry.

The travel and tourism industry has different sectors: Tour attractions, Transport, Accommodation & catering, Tour operators, Retail (Travel agents & online), Public sector tourism.
Tour attractions are places that tourists want to visit. The main attractions are historic monument, theme park, castle, natural geographic feature, ski resorts, beaches. When we look at the tourists flow, there three types of tourism: domestic tourism (people take holiday in their own country), inbound tourism (people entering the country from abroad to take holiday), outbound tourism (people leaving their country to take holiday). Working in tourism means meeting people from different countries. It also means sending people to different destination with different traditions and customs. It is important to respect & understand these different traditions and customs.
Transport means ways of travelling between different places, such as trains & airplanes. There are 3 methods of travelling: air (by airplane, helicopter, and light aircraft), water (by cruise ship, liner, ferry, and hovercraft), and land (by train, bus, coach, car, and bicycle). In tourism the most important thing is not just to meet expectations, but to exceed them. Hotels try to exceed expectations in different ways. In the transport sector they can achieve this by creating something extraordinary, decorating a car for young people going to spend their honeymoon.
Accommodation & catering means places to stay and the food and services that are provide there. The main of them are apartment, B&B, campsite, caravan, country house, cruise ship, farmhouse, hotel, hostel, motel, mountain refuge. Some types of accommodations are serviced (meals are provided) or self-catering (you cook your own meal). They can be divided into urban or rural, static or mobile.
Tour operators are people or customers that organize and assemble the different parts of holiday or tour. Tour operators create package holiday, which include all the components necessary for holiday. In this sector the personal touch is important.
Retail (Travel agents & online) are people or companies that sell the holiday or tour to the customer.
Public sector tourism is government organizations that promote and develop tourism.

Speak about the biggest tourist earners and spenders.

Tourism is not only arguably the world's largest industry, it also involves the greatest flows of people on the surface of the earth. It is, therefore, a major agent of change in today's world.For many developing countries tourism is one of fundamental pillars of their development process because it is one of the dominant activities in the economy. One countries earn by means of tourism, and others spend for it money.
The United States remains the unchallenged leader among the world earners. Spain, France and Italy are follows the lead respectively. Among the top earners, Hong Kong (China), China and Australia performed strongest, all recording double digit growth in 2008.
The ranking of the world’s top spenders on international tourism remained virtually unchanged, except for the entry of the Russian Federation in the tenth position to the detriment of Canada. Expenditure by the regional leaders United States, Germany and Japan stagnated or only grew marginally in 2008.
Research by Bank Dresdner is found out, that Germans and Europeans, in general, continue to be the main spenders, because of force of Euro against dollar of the United States, with the strong requirement of the USA in favor of other mission.

Describe a tourist destination located in your country.

Our country has great tourism potential. It includes : Architecture and nature, and cities and people. Niasvizh Castle - the residence of princes Radziwill . The whole complex introduced in UNESCO World Heritage. The castle was built as a fortification. The castle was destroyed by the Swedes, architects, rebuilt the castle again, gave it the features of the Baroque style. The palace is also interesting for its numerous cellars. Now the palace reconstructed.
Bialowieza Forest - a unique natural site. Age forests is over 100 years, some forest areas have age of 250-350 years.
City Zaslavl currently known as one of the historic centers. Here you can see well-preserved castles, Holy Transfiguration Church (Спасо-Преображенская церковь XVI-XVII cc.) Church of St. Mary(1774) and other.
Minsk - the cultural center of the country, there are many museums and other facilities.
Around Minsk also many interesting places - Lake Naroch, ethnographic complex Dudutki, sport complex "Raubichy, and other
Complex «Xatyn» - a sacred place for every Belarusian. The Nazis burned this small village with all its inhabitants.
Not far from Polotsk is one of the oldest cities in Belarus - Braslau. There are such wonderful historical monuments as the Castle Hill, the city church, Church of the Transfiguration. But most importantly - the famous Braslav Lake.
These and many other attractions to this day attracts tourists from around the world.

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