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Unit 1 tourism part 1
This document discusses different types of tourism destinations and factors that affect the nature of tourism. It describes various types of tourist destinations including those centered around scenic beauty, rich culture, good facilities, and places of conflict. Specific examples are provided for each type. A number of factors are also outlined as influencing the nature of tourism, such as physical landscape, infrastructure, costs, and roles of different promoting groups including governments, media, international organizations, and travel writers.
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Unit 1 tourism part 1
- 1. ELECTIVE GEOGRAPHY OUR CHANGING WORLD GLOBAL TOURISM ISTOURISM THE WAY TO GO?
- 3. GATEWAY 1 HOW DOESTHE NATURE OF TOURISM VARY FROM PLACE TO PLACE? Visit the Geography Unit Facebook Page, look for the fortnightly online research assignment and prepare for the questions.
- 4. WHAT IS TOURISM Tourismis the activity or practice of touring. The business of providing accommodation, services for the purpose of touring.
- 5. ARE THEY TOURISTS? •Students on an overnight Learning Journey to Malacca. Categorise the information into a table. Tourists VS Non-tourists • Students doing a week long Overseas Immersion Program in China. • A businessman who goes to London for a week to meet clients and have meetings. • A mother who brings her child back to her ancestral village in another country for a month-long visit? • Students going to their own school for a 3 day camp.
- 6. WHO ARE TOURISTS? Personwho travel and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than 24 hours but not more than a consecutive year for leisure, business or other purposes. PG 5
- 7. HOW DO TOURIST DESTINATIONSDIFFER? • Scenic Beauty • Good Facilities • Rich Culture • Places of Conflict • Space Tourism PG 5
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- 9. SCENIC BEAUTY HONEYPOTTOURISM Tourism that attracts large crowds to scenic sites Tend to be overcrowded during peak seasons Tourist facilities are developed at these sites eg: hotels, shopping centres, transport stations More tourists are attracted to these sites as a result, like bees to flowers (Honeypot)
- 10. SCENIC BEAUTY LANDSCAPE BEAUTY MOUNTAINS • Jiuzhaigou,China • Winter sports • Sahara Desert, West Africa • Mountaineering, hiking • Bird and wildlife watching • Himalayas, Asia • Rockies, North America • Grand Canyon, USA • Halong Bay, Vietnam • Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe & Zambia
- 11. SCENIC BEAUTY EXAMPLES YOUSHOULD KNOW COASTAL RESORTS WILDLIFE • Southeast Asia – Bali, Phuket • Safaris in the plains of Kenya • Mediterranean Sea Cancun, Caribbe an Islands • Great Barrier Reef, Australia (diving site) • Mexico – gulf of mexico
- 12. PITSTOP 2 Turn toPg8 of your textbook. Let’s attempt Pitstop 2 together!
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- 17. GOOD FACILITIES • MICE •Educational facilities • Medical and Spa facilities • Theme Parks
- 18. GOOD FACILITIES MICE • Meetings,Incentives, Conventions & Events • Venues that can host large-scale meetings and conventions • Supporting infrastructure – hotels, retail outlets, transport facilities • E.g Singapore (pg 8 & 9)
- 19. GOOD FACILITIES EDUCATIONAL • Includeattractions that attract people in search for study tours (Angkor Wat) • Travel for education purposes or to learn something about a place • Intensive overseas education programme where universities are reputed for education excellence • E.g. United Kingdom (pg 10)
- 20. GOOD FACILITIES – MEDICALAND SPA • Travelling for medical reasons – Medical tourism • To avoid long waiting periods or high medical costs back home • In search of higher quality medical care • Eg. South Korea – cosmetic surgery
- 21. GOOD FACILITIES – MEDICALAND SPA • Travelling for health reasons – Health tourism • To maintain, enhance or restore their minds and bodies • Include spa towns, thermal springs and mud pools • Eg: Dead Sea (between Jordan and Israel) – (pg 11)
- 22. GOOD FACILITIES – THEMEPARKS • Places with amusement park settings or attractions with a central theme • Refer to extensive examples in page 13…
- 23. GOOD FACILITIES EXAMPLES YOUSHOULD KNOW MICE Medical and Spa • Singapore • South Korea • Barcelona, Spain • • Berlin, Germany Budapest, Hung ary (spa) Educational Theme Parks • United Kingdom • • Melbourne, Austr alia Tokyo Disneyland • Universal Studios, Los Angeles • Beijing, China
- 24. PITSTOP 3 Turn toPg 13 of your textbook. Using what we have covered thus far, complete the table (Qn 6). 4 minutes
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- 26. RICH CULTURE • HeritageTourism • Film-induced Tourism • Gourmet Food and Shopping Tourism • Pilgrimage Tourism
- 27. RICH CULTURE HERITAGE Lostcity of the Incas – Machu Picchu, Peru
- 28. RICH CULTURE HERITAGE • Locationsfor tourists to experience different cultures and understand their history better • Promotes a country’s identity, culture and history to international tourists • Eg: museums, traditional festivals, national and historical monuments
- 29. RICH CULTURE – FILM-INDUCED HobbitLand, New Zealand
- 30. RICH CULTURE – FILM-INDUCED • Locationsfeatured in films • To understand how certain scenes in the movies were filmed • To understand how these places inspired the film
- 31. RICH CULTURE – GOURMET& SHOPPING • Tourism for the purpose of enjoying cuisines or to shop • Gourmet – Hong Kong • Shopping – street markets of London, UK
- 32. RICH CULTURE PILGRIMAGE GoodFriday at Jerusalem, Israel
- 33. RICH CULTURE – PILGRIMAGE • Travelto take part in religious activities • Usually involves a journey to a sacred or religious place • Major religious holidays also play a role in drawing large crowds
- 34. RICH CULTURE EXAMPLES YOUSHOULD KNOW Heritage Film-Induced Pilgrimage • • Mumbai, India (Slumdog Millionaire) • Vatican City (Easter for Catholics) • New Zealand (Lord of the Rings) • Mecca in Saudi Arabia (Hajj for Muslims) • Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China (Avatar) • Varanasi, India (Ganga Festival for Hindus) Beijing, China (Forbidden City, Great wall of China) • Athens, Greece (Acropolis) • Machu Picchu, Peru
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- 36. PLACES OF CONFLICT –DARK TOURISM HIROSHIMA
- 37. DARK TOURISM • Travel toplaces associated with death and tragedy • Wars, battles, man-made tragedies • Tourists include survivors, relatives and friends of those affected, people interested to know more about the events • Eg: battlefields, museums, memorials, fortifications
- 38. SPACE TOURISM To infinityand beyond???
- 39. SPACE TOURISM • Travel beyondthe earth’s atmosphere into space • Suborbital flights can last less than a day • Russian Space Agency - trips to International Space Station • Costly – US$20 to US$35 million • Trips last between 8 to 15 days
- 40. HOW CAN SINGAPORECOMPETE ?
- 41. HOW CAN SINGAPORECOMPETE ? • Make a list of Singapore’s tourist attractions • Classify which type of attractions they each belong to Scenic Beauty? Rich Culture? • Dark Tourism? Good Facilities? MICE • Heritage • Educational • Film-induced • Health and Spa • Gourmet & Shopping • Theme Parks • Pilgrimage
- 42. FACTORS AFFECTING NATUREOF TOURISM • Physical Factors • Type of landscape • Weather and Climate • Human Factors • Marketing • Infrastructure • Costs • Different groups of people promoting tourism • • • • Government Media International Organisations Travel writers
- 43. ROLES OF DIFFERENTGROUPS IN PROMOTING TOURISM • Government • Media • International Organisations • Org for Economic Co-operation & Development • UNWTO • Travel Writers
- 44. GOVERNMENT • The governmentis directly involved in the planning, funding and building infrastructure projects linked to tourism • Eg: airports, roads • Ensure safety and security of tourist sites • Set up agencies tasked to devise strategies to promote tourism • Eg: Singapore Tourism Board
- 45. MEDIA • Includes television,radio, newspapers and the Internet • Positive reports can encourage more tourists, eg good shopping opportunities • Negative reports can deter visitors, eg occurrence of natural disasters • Increases awareness of tourist destinations
- 46. INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS • Aninternational group of different countries that work together for a common purpose • Reports produced by such organisations can encourage or discourage tourists in visiting a place • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Tourism Committee • UNWTO • Eg: Health updates and travel advisories provided by World Health Organisation (WHO) during the avian influenza would discourage visitors from visiting at-risk countries
- 47. TRAVEL WRITERS • Articlesand reviews of travel writers appear in guidebooks, travelogues, magazines and Internet reviews • Includes suggested itineries, advice on the cheapest accommodation, best gourmet cuisine, the ‘dos and don’ts’ of tourist behaviour and etc • Source of inspiration to readers • Increases awareness of tourist destinations
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