GEOG 1F90 Lecture 7: Lecture Seven - Tourism Geography
Document Summary
There is scarcely an aspect of tourism which does not have some geographical implications and there are few branches of geography which do not have some contribution to make to the study of the phenomenon of tourism. Travel flows and the large- scale (temporary) movement of people on a global scale. Economic, social, cultural and economic impacts tourism has on local communities. The temporary relocation of people outside their usual environment, for any number of reasons, including any number of activities, and return to their point of departure: they always go back to the place of origin, mobility o. A system: lieper (1979) proposed a tourism system with five basic elements, tourists, generating regions, transit routes. 4) destination regions: tourism industries (and infrastructure) Transition route region: tourist generating region. Departing tourists tourist destination region returning tourists go. Travel agents, tour operators, tourist information, online travel services,