GGRA02H3 Lecture 6: Lecture 6
Document Summary
Lecture 6 tourism: the new global economy. Tourism now the most important single item in international trade. International tourist arrivals for 2007 grew at rate of 5. 7% - 880-900 millions. (world. Demand side: increased leisure time, increased real incomes, affluent retirement, desire for travel, new experiences, escapism, business tourism. Supply side: transportation revolution, economic development policies, growth of tourist industry tourism as a product, globalization of goods and services. Rise of mass tourism: a giant group going on a trip, all inclusive, packaged, pre-paid. Ecotourism: responsible travel to natural areas which conserves the environment and improves the welfare of local people. Outside money, property ownership, designs, new land uses: from spaces of production to spaces of consumption = leisure spaces, new meanings of space, place, and environment, loss of local control: tourist enclaves. Impacts on visual landscapes and natural ecosystems through: forest clearance, coastal zone construction, eco-tourism. Exploitation and degradation of natural resources: ie water.
