GEG3320- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 18 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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What is tourism: tourism is a very lucrative market but is also scientific, tourism is a composite of activities, services and industries that deliver a travel experience: Includes: travel for business, to visit friends and relatives, for personal reason (health or religious, to study for less than 1 year, excludes, commuting to and from work. Job relocation: diplomats or armed forces on assignment, students studying for more than 1 year, usual environment is defined as being within 40km away from home, types of tourists. Global increase in tourism in the last 60 years why: more advertising, more infrastructure, technology, social media, available transportation, costs, more disposable income, globalization. Last chance to see certain things in nature. Improvements in transportation and infrastructure: ex. suspended bridge between 2 mountains that cut down hike time from 4 hrs to 10 mins, better marketing. Important to both poor and rich countries however poor countries are more dependent on income from tourism.
