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Types Of Tertiary Activities
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Trade and commerce
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- The towns and cities where all these works take place are known us trading centres or collection and distribution points
- Trading centres may be divided into rural and urban marketing centres.
- Rural marketing centres cater to nearby settlements.
- These are quasi-urban centres. They serve as trading centres of the most rudimentary type. Here personal and professional services are not well-developed.
- Periodic markets in rural areas are found where there are no regular markets and local periodic markets are organised at different temporal intervals.
- These may be weekly, bi- weekly markets from where people from the surrounding areas meet their temporally accumulated demand.
- Urban marketing centres have more widely specialised urban services. They provide ordinary goods and services as well as many of the specialised goods and services required by people
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Retail Trading
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- This is the business activity concerned with the sale of goods directly to the consumers.
- Most of the retail trading takes place in fixed establishments or stores solely devoted to selling.
- Street peddling, handcarts, trucks, door-to-door, mail-order, telephone, automatic vending machines and internet are examples of non-store retail trading.
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Wholesale Trading
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- Wholesale trading constitutes bulk business through numerous intermediary merchants and supply houses and not through retail stores.
- Some large stores including chain stores are able to buy directly from the manufacturers.
- However, most retail stores procure supplies from an intermediary source.
- Wholesalers often extend credit to retail stores to such an extent that the retailer operates very largely on the wholesaler‘s capital.
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Transport
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- Transport is a service or facility by which people, materials and manufactured goods are physically carried from one location to another.
- At every stage in this complex system, the value of the material is significantly enhanced by transportation.
- Isochrones lines are drawn on a map to join places equal in terms of the time taken to reach them.
Factors Affecting Transport
- Demand for transport is influenced by the size of population. The larger the population size, the greater is the demand for transport.
- Routes depend on: location of cities, towns, villages, industrial centres and raw materials, pattern of trade between them, nature of the landscape between them, type of climate, and funds available for overcoming obstacles along the length of the route.
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Communication
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Communication services involve the transmission of words and messages, facts and ideas.
Telecommunications
- The use of telecommunications is linked to the development of modern technology. It has revolutionised communications because of the speed with which messages are sent. The time reduced is from weeks to minutes.
- Radio and television also help to relay news, pictures, and telephone calls to vast audiences around the world and hence they are termed as mass media.
- They are vital for advertising and entertainment. Newspapers are able to cover events in all corners of the world.
- Satellite communication relays information of the earth and from space.
- The internet has truly revolutionised the global communication system
Services
- Services occur at many different levels. Some are geared to industry, some to people, and some to both industry and people, e.g. the transport systems.
- Services are provided to individual consumers who can afford to pay for them.
- For example, the gardener, the launderers and the barber do primarily physical labour.
- Teacher, lawyers, physicians, musicians and others perform mental labour
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