GEOG 3490 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: World Tourism Organization, Google Maps, Business Travel
9 Mar 2017
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Which regions receives most tourist arrivals (-unwto: africa, europe, although it doesn"t have fastest growth rate, it has highest total tourist arrivals, south america, asia and pacific. Increasing interconnectedness and interdependence between different places in the world through technology (transportation), media (news, soc media), soc, pol and econ ties. What happens in this area, will affect another area of the world" (cause. Geog*3490: geographical concepts & tourism models: time and space the world is coming smaller in getting from a b, finance, tech ex. Atms allow for much faster and more direct usage opposed to using travellers cheques in the past (have to go to bank in destination and sign for money) Breakdown of phases - butler"s (1980) tourist area life-cycle concept: exploration phase. Geog*3490: geographical concepts & tourism models: small # of tourists attracted by culture/natural beauty, limited , few facilities exists (no big hotels, ex. Papa new ginea, until not long ago the amazon.
