REC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: International Volunteering, Dark Tourism, Unequal Exchange
5 Jun 2018
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What is Tourism? - movement of people to countries or places outside their usual
environment for personal or business/professional purposes.
Tourism is a form of human behaviour (i.e., something people do), that is supported, in part,
by a variety of industries, such as transportation
outside the usual environment: In a Canadian context, refers to travel at least 80 km
away from home, or travel across an international border (Smith).
Reason for Tourism:
o business (e.g., meetings, conferences, conventions, trade shows, incentive travel,
etc.)
o pleasure (e.g., vacation, shopping, visiting family and friends, festivals, etc.),
o other reasons such as medical purposes or religious pilgrimages.
Travelers are motived by push factors and pull factors
o Two people might be pulled by very different locations based on the
same push facto
o Push factors are the needs that arise due to a state of disequilibrium or tension in
some level of one's motivational system, as per Maslow's hierarchy of needs
o Pull factors are “the factors influencing when, where, and how people travel and are
related to the features, attractions, or attributes of the destination itself
Canadian Tourists and Tourism Industries
In 2013, Canadians ranked 7thworldwide in terms of our international tourism expenditures
a variety of other industries benefit from domestic tourism
Canadian tourists are more like to
o have graduated from high school (and do more traveling if they have a university
degree), be employed in the labour force
o have a household income of more than $40,000 per year (an increase in this figure
is related to an increase in travel),
o live with other adults (e.g., a partner, adult children, etc.).
Tourism Impacts
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Document Summary
Movement of people to countries or places outside their usual environment for personal or business/professional purposes. Reason for tourism: business (e. g. , meetings, conferences, conventions, trade shows, incentive travel, etc. , pleasure (e. g. , vacation, shopping, visiting family and friends, festivals, etc, other reasons such as medical purposes or religious pilgrimages. In 2013, canadians ranked 7thworldwide in terms of our international tourism expenditures a variety of other industries benefit from domestic tourism. Tourism impacts environmental impacts both positive and negative. Environmental impacts: the good: the potential for improved training and skills of host country residents, profits from tourism being fed back into the community, enhanced infrastructure (e. g. , transport, health, entertainment, etc. Promoting and selling tours of the community by local. Inviting local craft vendors to sell their wares in the hotel, free of cost. Conducting lessons in schools about environmental and tourism-related matters the notion of voluntourism (ivs-international volunteering and service)
