ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to provide the reader with an appreciation of the many types of tourism supplier, providing key examples of organizations involved and the scale of operations together with some of the issues facing them, notably the management of tourism and strategy issues. It presents an introductory framework which introduces supply and different approaches used to explain its significance. M. T. Sinclair and M. Stabler indicate that supply issues can be classified and divided into three main categories: descriptions of the industry and its operation, management and marketing, the spatial development [the geographical development] and interactions which characterize the industry on a local, national and international scale and the effects which result from the development of the industry. The key aspects of tourism supply are: tour operators and intermediaries, attractions, accommodation, transportation and other tourist facilities and services. Within economic models of perfect competition, economists make a number of assumptions related to tourism issues.
