tourism

• tourist attractions are places that attract tourists
• Conservation tourism is tourism that supports wildlife and provides learning opportunities
• outbound tourism: when someone travels to another country
• inbound tourism: when someone travels to our country
• domestic tourism: when someone travels within their country
• dark tourism: people go to pool at history or big events in the past
• a problem with tourists in national park

  footpath erosion
• environmental damage can result from too many tourists visiting an area that does not have the infortructure to cope
• an example of environmental damage

  • Waste disposal
  • Disturbance of wildlife
• What is a positive facture of tourism

  makes more money for the country: more economically advanced
• What is a negative facture of tourism

  Ensure traditions are not exploited or cheapened
• Climate change can affect tourism by

  making the country a lot hotter causing more people to go there
• what is the greenhouse effect

  A layer of gases around the earth to keep it a habitable temperature
• what is a honeypot site

  a site with attractive scenery
• What is the multiplier effect

  where money is spent in an area which causes that area to become more affluent. This causes more business to open, therefore more jobs are created. As more people are working, more taxes are being paid. As the government makes more money from tax, they invest back into the area e.g public transport/facilities and this attracts tourists. The multipliers starts over again
• What employmen5 sector is tourism in

  Tertiary
• Name the different tourisms

  Adventure, cultural heritage, health volunteer work, dark, ecotourism, conservation tourism
• Why are tourists numbers increasing 


  Social and economic features

  (Wealtheir people, school holidays)

  Improvement in technology

  (Faster ans cheaper travel)

  Expansion in holiday choice

  (More tourist destination, better standard of hotels)
• What is GDP

  Value of a coutnitoes economy. It measures all good and services throughout one year.
• What us direct employment

  Jobs where employers are in direct contact with tourists and provide the tourist experience
• What is Indirect tourism

  Jobs in companies that supply direct employment in tourism.
• Example of direct employer

  Tour guide, travel agent
• Example of indirect employment

  Aircraft and bread supplier
• What's is seasonal employment

  Being employed for only one part if the year, usually the summer
• What are the 3 major issues in tourism

  • Climate change
  • Environmental damage
  • Cultural explication