global finals

• • Tourism activities of persons traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year.
• • Excursionist person who spends less than twenty-four hours at a destination.
• • Tourist seeks various psychic and physical experiences and satisfactions.
• • Business people - see tourism as an opportunity to make a profit.
• • Politicians - view tourism as a wealth factor in the economy of their jurisdictions.
• • The host community: Local people - see tourism as a cultural and employment factor.
• Tourists  - very heart of the tourism phenomenon model and the travel experiences that he/she seeks when visiting a tourism destination.
• Natural Resources and Environment - fundamental dimension of the model, the very basis of much tourism.
• • Physiography - nature and appearance of its landscape.
• • Climate - kind of weather it has over a period of years.
• Residents - who belong to the destination 
• The Tourism Market - who are current or potential visitors to the destinations
• Two very important categories of individuals: ✧ Residents & ✧ The Tourism Market
• • Built Environment 🎀another dimension of tourism phenomenon that has been created by man.
• • Culture - relatively a very permanent characteristic of a destination, and one that cannot and should not be changed simply to enhance tourism development.
• • Infrastructure -  roads, sewage systems, communication networks, and many commercial facilities.
• • Tourism Superstructure facilities that have been developed specially to respond to the demands of visitors.
• Technology -one of the most recent, and still increasingly influential, dimensions of the built environment that is shaping the nature of both tourism products/services and travel experiences.
• Technology

  •  Considered as one of the most distinctive and most powerful characteristics of the built environment.
• • Information - recent addition to the built environment. The success of a destination is determined by its ability to assemble.
• Governance - dimension of tourism that often receives inadequate attention.🎀
• • The Seven Wonders of the World impressive monuments regarded with awe and wonder.
• Taj Mahal

  • white marble mausoleum located in Agra, India
• • Taj Mahal built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal 
•  Great Wall of China 

  • series of stone and earthen fortifications
• • Great Wall of China 

  built originally to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire against intrusions by various nomadic groups.
• Christ the Redeemer Statue

  • statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Christ the Redeemer Statue

  •  largest Art Deco statue in the world was constructed between 1622 and 1931
• Machu Picchu

  situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru
• Machu Picchu

  • built as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti (1438-1472)
• •  Machu Picchu

   'The Lost City of the Incas"
• the largest peak in Machu Picchu, called Huayna Picchu, is known as "hitching post of the sun."
•  Petra “Rose City”

  • a historic and archaeological city in the Jordanian governorate of Ma'an.
• Colosseum

  elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy
• Colosseum

  • other purposes were for brutal executions such as Christian executions.
• Chichen Itza

  • second most popular site for visitors to Mexico.
• Chichen Itza

  Located on the Yucatan Peninsula, was a large city built by the Maya people.
• "at the mouth of the wall of the ITZA"
• New 7 Wonders of Nature - started in 2007 to create a list of seven natural wonders chosen by people through a global poll. -second in a series of Internet-based polls led by Swiss-born Canadian Bernard Weber.
•  Amazon Rainforest and River 

  • world's largest rainforest and is one of the world's most diverse biological areas.