Geography 2144A/B Final: GEO OF TOURISM FINAL STUDY GUIDE

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Lecture 6- infrastructure: different modes of transportation to get where we want to go. Atlantic in a few days rather than weeks. The world became a little smaller: 1950s: after ww2 the automobile was invented. People also started flying: 1960s: the world continues to get smaller as time and space have converged so it"s (cid:373)u(cid:272)h (cid:395)ui(cid:272)ke(cid:396) to t(cid:396)a(cid:448)el. The dista(cid:374)(cid:272)e has(cid:374)"t changed: this generation: we expect to have instant access. (e. g. communication). We are the first generation to be able to travel anywhere on the planet cheaply and easily. Rail: rails to trails, train was very popular from the 1920s to 1930s. After ww2, it got replaced by the car: europe is smaller so they use the train more. In north america, part of the demise of trains are automobiles. With the growth of mass tourism, it also increased the highways/roads that connect locations: opening of the travel patent is a dominant force of transportation in some areas, e. g.

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