EDRD 4010- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 49 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Environmental Design and Rural Development
• Course: EDRD 4010
• Professor: Marianne Staempfli

Document Summary

Technical definitions: focus on specifically identified parameters for the purpose of dynamic interrelationships of tourism. Recreation and leisure = individuals must feel free to participate measuring and providing statistical or legislative support. Conceptual definitions: center on the nature of tourism for the purpose of assessing and learning about tourist activities and ensuing experiences: can also be defined from demand-side perspective or supply-side perspective. Tourism = driver of economic growth and development, key force to deal with global challenges (ex. environmental protection, poverty alleviation, multicultural exchange and understanding, promotion of world peace and job creation) Reasons not to travel internationally = usually not as a result of declining desire to travel but decrease in affordability/less allocation of economic resources. Geography: spatial distribution of attractions, implications of travel to sites, environmental impacts. Business: issues of hospitality, hr management, facility operation. Sociology: implications to society from a time use, leisure and consumption perspective.