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Overview of the Tertiary Sector Services

The document summarizes key aspects of the tertiary sector of the economy. It includes services like commerce, tourism, transport, communications, healthcare, education, and public administration. It discusses the roles of merchants in commerce who buy from producers and sell to consumers at a higher price to make a profit. It also outlines different types of retail businesses, how prices are determined by supply and demand, the purpose of advertising, and different forms of transportation, tourism, and communication.

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Overview of the Tertiary Sector Services

The document summarizes key aspects of the tertiary sector of the economy. It includes services like commerce, tourism, transport, communications, healthcare, education, and public administration. It discusses the roles of merchants in commerce who buy from producers and sell to consumers at a higher price to make a profit. It also outlines different types of retail businesses, how prices are determined by supply and demand, the purpose of advertising, and different forms of transportation, tourism, and communication.

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THE TERTIARY SECTOR (unit 14)

It offers services to consumers.

It includes various areas: commerce, tourism, transport and communications

Health and education public safety skilled professions administrative work cultural professions

Doctor police officers mechanics secretaries writers

Nurses fire fighters plumber bank clerks musicians

Dentists soldiers electricians public servants actors

Teachers security guards painters

Sculptors

Judicial system

Lawyers

Prosecutors

Judges
2-COMMERCE

It’s the business of buying and selling products and services

A merchant buys a product from a producer at a certain price

The merchant sells the product to a consumer to a higher price

The difference between these two prices is the merchant’s profit

Types:

International commerce Domestic commerce

Between 2 or more countries inside one country

Types of retail businesses

Supermarkets and department stores Speciality shops

Large businesses that sell many different products sell one type of product or service

Outside towns and cities in the city centre or in shopping centres

Hypermarkets
3- PRICES, ADVERTISING AND CONSUMPTION

PRICE

How much a product or service costs in money.

It depends on: supply and demand

How much of a product or service there is to sell how much of a product or a service people want to buy

Small supply ---------- large demand ---------- prices go up

Large supply --------- small demand --------- prices go down

ADVERTISING

It tells consumers about a product or a service and encourages them to buy it

CONSUMPTION

We use a variety of products and services.

Sometimes we consume more products and services than we really need

We need to practise responsible consumption:

Controlling our use of products and services save energy and limited resources
4- TRANSPORT

Types:

Road transport rail transport air transport water transport

Cars, buses, lorries trains ( stations) planes ( airports) cruise ships: people

For short and medium distances carry passenger or cargo long distances cargo ships: heavy cargo over long distances

Buses carry people and lorries deliver for short and medium distances

goods

5- TOURISM

Provide us with accommodation and entertainment when we are on holiday

Types:

Beach tourism adventure tourism cultural tourism rural tourism ecological tourism
6- COMMUNICATIONS

Interpersonal communication: information to one person at a time: letters and telephones

Mass communication: to send information to many people at once: newspapers, radio and television

Computers: email and internet

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