TOUR 1P91- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 38 pages long!)
28 Mar 2018
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Tourism is an exciting and dynamic sector that is constantly changing. It can affect people"s lives in many different ways. For business and destinations it is a source of income and employment. Movement of goods, information, ideas and people through technological innovation. Balance of environmental concerns with allowance for economic growth. Globalization is an all-encompassing term that denotes a world which, due to many political- economic, technology, and informational advancements and developments. Albrow summaries that globalization can be seen as a combination of 4 phenomena: Images, information and products from any part of the world. Rogers describes sustainability as the term chosen to bridge the gulf between development and environment. Dresner explains that the starting point of the concept of sustainable development was the aim to integrate environmental considerations into economic policy. 3 determinants of sustainable development are consumption production and distribution.
