RECR 250 Chapter 3: CH 3 Charac. of Tourism

• School: Chico State University
• Department: Recreation and Parks Management
• Course: RECR 250
• Professor: Morgan Geddie

Document Summary

Pleasure travel: pleasure travel: leisure, rec, holidays, visiting friends/relatives. Visited friends/relatives: reasons for increase: Tendency to take shorter, more freq. trips. Airfare cost: factors that influ. travel: Cost: travel = exper. , not intangible obj. Reduced travel budgets: bus. travelers: travel for bus. purp. i. e. mtngs, sales, (corp. , regional, product), conventions, trade shows/expos. Bus. /leisure travel can be blurred: making bus. travel arrangements online. 1. 8 million bus. travelers do this: changed due to security @ airports/travel-related places. Contrib. to intntnl understanding, peace, prosperity, univ respect for human rights: prov. opp. for social interactions, competitiveness of intntnl destinations based on: Security: 21. 7% us pop. has passports. Pol. stability: ecotourism: reaction to neg. consequences of tourism devel. on nat. resources, ecosystems, cult. destinations (cid:862)e(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:396)o(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal tou(cid:396)is(cid:373)(cid:863) (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)s. Defn environ. respons. travel/visitation to relatively undistributed nat. areas to enjoy/appreciate nature that promo. conservation, has low neg. visitor impact, provides beneficially active socioec. involvement of local pop.