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Visitor = Person visiting a person or place // Persona que visita a una persona o lugar
Planeta.com’s approach to travel and tourism starts with an acknowledgement that travel and tourism are perceived and valued differently by locals and visitors. Years ago (2005ish) Oaxaca’s multilingual tourism professional Hugo Antonio Santiago suggested that instead of using the word ‘tourist’ or ‘traveler’ we use the word ‘visitor.’
Our challenge to readers is to 1) ask your neighbors, family, and friends about visits – good and bad, 3) share where you find online, public visitation numbers, 3) share where you have find well-managed, brick and mortar visitor information centers, 4) translate ‘visitors’ in other languages
Translation: Visitors
Māori: Manuhiri / Manuwhiri
Spanish: Visitantes
German: Besucher
Quotes
Why is it called tourist season if we can’t shoot them?
– Popular saying, Canada
While Australians love a rant as much as the next ticked-off customer, they are more likely to see the funny side of a bad situation than British tourists, Flight Centre spokesman Haydn Long said. “Australians tend to be a little bit more adventurous and when you take the more adventurous option, you tend to be more tolerant of things not always being perfect.” Peter Hook, spokesman for the country’s largest hotel group, Accor Asia Pacific, said Australians have a more laid-back attitude to travel because we’ve had to “overcome the tyranny of distance. When you fly 24 hours to the UK, a park bench looks attractive compared to an economy airline seat.”
– Mark Russell, Beaches too sandy, fish scare the kids: it’s a Fawlty Towers world for some tourists
Questions // Preguntas
- Where do you take out-of-town guests? // ¿Adónde llevas a los invitados de fuera de la ciudad?
Stray Notes
- How do locals see the non-locals and how do non-locals see locals? Sidenote: Breaking Away example
- A more inclusive approach to language is an effective way to interact with one another
- It brings up age-old debates that are fun to argue and sometimes lead to consensus and a meeting of minds. Let’s agree to use multiple terms.
- Under what circumstances to when places and people entice return guests
- Repeat visitors
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