This analysis will cover the whole tourism system of Sydney-Bali-Sydney. In order to analyze this tourism system, one must understand the elements and components of a holistic tourism system. Before understanding systems thinking, we must review relationship thinking, the most common type of thinking. Relationship thinking posits the worldview within individuals of a linear connection between elements, one that is arranged in a step-by-step sequence. This type of thinking is less complex than systems thinking, and it comes up short as a manner of explaining systems because it views the elements of a system as integral to the whole system because of their immanent qualities. Therefore, relationship thinkers would view Bali as a tourist destination because of marketing efforts, or the enjoyable climate and friendly people of Bali. However, systems thinking does not view the system elements from a linear or step-by-step perspective. Systems thinkers recognize the catalyst action that the tourist represents for forming a whole tourism system, “Systems thinking applied to tourism discovers that the causal agent is a tourist who, preparing for a trip, creates—in their mind and often also on paper—an embryonic whole tourism system, usually comprising a sequence of events along an imagined route. Then, when they actually travel, the system becomes a reality. A tourist is what creates every whole tourism system. When she or he goes off and visits places, a whole system comes into being, in the interactions of the elements: a tourist, at least three places (TGR, TRR, TDR) and organizations forming tourism industries” (A Sociology 30).
There are five elements that comprise a holistic tourism system. The whole system will involve at least one tourist. Also included are three geographical elements at least. These are the traveler generating region (destination of origination) (TGR), the transit routes (TR), and the tourist...