Geography 2144A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Varadero, San José, Costa Rica, Ecotourism
26 Jan 2018
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Tourism as a business: tourism is a business and as a business, it is a production process, should tourism be defined as: Fargo, north dakota in the middle of economic boom and #1 happiest state. Image problem though because a lot of people don"t know where it is and thinks its hick country. California it is inconsequential: california leads in money in the us. Orlando, florida: year round attendance because florida"s weather allows for that. New york: most of tourism is in new york city largest international market in the us, but in terms of economic impact, tourism is insignificant. If you can wait and you are flexible in terms of when you can go, you will always get a good deal. Shanghai, china: tourism as far as the chinese government is concerned is nice but not huge on their agenda because the rest of the economy is so big. Compare and contrast tourism in the usa to other countries.
