Geography 2144A/B Lecture Notes - Microsoft Powerpoint, Ecotourism, Spring Break

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You can predict what services, etc you may need based on how many tourists you expect to get. How easy it is to resolve certain issues. Eg. in algonquin they have some lakes for boaters, and some lakes for canoes (they zone different lakes for different uses) Eg. how do you influx large cruise ships and maintain the environment: perception. Carrying capacity: what is the ability of an area to absorb the number of people: current capacity, local factors, external factors, planning process, management of development, technology. Impacts: society, culure, environment, economy, tourists, carrying capacity, parameters, standards, in a business sense, there is no way of predicting carrying capacity because it is unpredictable. Atlantic city, orlando, vegas: tourist historic, converted. Paris, london, washington: the tourist bubble. Cities that used to have a different economic function, and some of the things they were renowned for have changed.

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