LSR 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: World Tourism Organization

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Leisure Studies
• Course: LSR 1100
• Professor: George Karlis

Document Summary

Smith: focusing on canada, talks about implications of unwto. In defining tourism, smith talks about travel outside of the usual environment from a. Canadian perspective: 80 km away from home or across international border. Mathieson & wall: defines tourism: tourism is understood to be the temporal movement of people outside of their places of work and residence, emphasizes on movement, not on distance. Touris(cid:373) is also u(cid:374)derstood to (cid:271)e a part of recreation in that it consist of travelling amongst other activities: leisure is activity, tourism is an activity also. Mieczowski: agrees with butler, close link with leisure and recreation, tourism takes place during leisure. Tourism is closely linked to recreation through activities: (cid:862)touris(cid:373) is a(cid:374) aspe(cid:272)t of re(cid:272)reatio(cid:374) whi(cid:272)h i(cid:374) tur(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:373)prises a portio(cid:374) of leisure. (cid:863) Kelly: tourism is best defined on understanding the experience, likes to take a psychological dimension of tourism, (cid:862)touris(cid:373) produ(cid:272)es satisfa(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s intrinsic to the experience itself.