GEOG 3490 Lecture 1: Mass Lecture Notes
17 Apr 2016
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Why do definitions matter: affects how tourism is measured what kinds of data are collected and analyzed, affects how tourism is planned and managed, how are the impacts identified and measured, how are impacts mitigated, affecting infrastructures* History of tourism: what does it require, money, time, passport/legal status, accommodation, transportation, desire/reason. America: rise of business travel, specialist demands, more sophisticated consumer market, rise of developing country destinations. Tourism"s top spenders china, us, germany, russia, uk, france, canada, austrailia, italy, brazil. Why consider tourism to developing countries: concerned with tourism and sustainability - environmental, social, political, economic etc. Increasing global connectedness through trade, outsourcing jobs in other countries increasingly rapid movement (people, money, ideas) through time and space time and space compression (p. 12-14. Application to tourism: gi purposefully shaped by actors involved in tourism (eg. travel brochures of tv shows) but also by many other means, western imaginings are often incomplete or very different from local meanings.
