Geography 2045A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: World Tourism Organization, Love Actually, The Strongest
2 Oct 2017
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The data around tourism is in a flux so it"s best to follow trends and channel the data from the un world tourism organization. World #1 tourist country is france: likely to drop as a consequence of terrorist attacks, popularity. #2 us: biggest in the world combined if you are counting domestic travel. How long tourists stay and how much money they spend. The strongest motivation for humans is love: our motivation for travel is a variation of love, romance and discovery. Rodanthe is small and individual, time consuming and difficult to travel to. Inspired to travel there from a nicholas sparks novel. Personality and attitude: references group influences, look at movies, novels and your own identification of landscape and the impact it has on choosing who to bring. Tourism fits in with self-actualization (the top end) because you become the person who you want without the constraints of day-to-day stresses motivation is discovery.
