Geography 2144A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ecotourism, Spring Break, Costco
2 Apr 2018
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The landscape, host community, and visitors, all has an e ect on tourism. (e ects how popular a destination is for example). acts as in uence: the environment (weather), social (friendliess), and culture of destination a ects its tourism. In uenced by: the environment (more polluted), social (shapes host"s personality), and culture. Changes can be environmental, social, or cultural. The scale of e ect (big or small). Probability the likelihood of impact if we had this same activity somewhere else. Tractability (how easily something can be resolved) how resolvable are the impacts we made on the destination: ex: how severe the pollutions, problems that can easily be resolved are mitigated (less severe) Mitigation (reduce) how to reduce the negative e ects. Business = production process with product & input. Everyone has a di erent product consumer creates the product/ experience. Since the product is not distinct , it depends. Everything in this course relates to experience.
