RECR 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: World Tourism Organization, Sustainable Tourism, Ecotourism
20 Feb 2017
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Tourism highlights: ppl have traveled for centuries, traces of travel date back to: 776 bc/early olympic games in greece: religious travel grew in 13th cent. Growth of inns to sup. travelers: 17th cent. saw increased travel by horse/carriage. Rail travel gains in pop: 20th cent. Air travel gains in pop. in mid-cent. Cruising returns to popularity: 21st cent. Temp. decline in tourism during early part of cent. due to: Chi(cid:374)a"s e(cid:454)pe(cid:374)diture o(cid:374) tra(cid:448)el a(cid:271)road rea(cid:272)hes (cid:1004)(cid:1006) bil. in 2012. The untwo expects this segment to grow substantially in future. What is tourism: worlds lrgst industry, dynamic/evolving, stim. ec. growth/job creation. Devel. global code of ethics for tourism. Charac. of tourism industry: acc. to untwo, tourism industry has following traits: 24 hrs. a day, 7 days a wk. , 52 wks. a yr. . 833 trillion in worldwide ec. activity by 2018. Sustainable tourism: acc. to intntl ecotourism society, sustainable tourism is: (cid:862)respo(cid:374)s. tra(cid:448)el to (cid:374)at. areas that (cid:272)o(cid:374)ser(cid:448)es e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374).
