Spatial Units

• Tourist Site- is an area that contains one or more tourist attractions.
• A tourist attraction is defined by Tourism Western Australia (2006) as either “a physical or cultural feature of a particular place that individual travelers or tourists perceive as capable of meeting one or more of their specific leisure related needs,...
• Four categories of attractions

  1. Geophysical -landscape- aesthetic
  2. Ecological- biological
  3. Cultural-historical
  4. Recretional
• Tourism Development Area- is an area designated for possessing an important site or groups of tourist sites. Any town or city that has one or more tourist sites can be considered as a TDA.
• Tourism Cluster- is composed of two or more TDAs. A single province may also be a cluster on its own, such as Palawan. A tourism cluster may consist of towns located in different provinces.
• Tourism Circuit- is defined as a route involving at least three major tourist destinations which are located in different towns, villages or cities; and the destinations share common characteristics or themes.
• Tourism Corridor- refers to route defined by a theme. (e.g silk heritage corridor, a civilization) spanning several countries or even continents.