REC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Disposable And Discretionary Income, Dialysis, Cuban Peso

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: REC100
• Professor: Bryan Smale

Document Summary

By the end of this module, you will be able to: define the term tourism, identify some of the forces that shape leisure travel, and identify some benefits and challenges of tourism. Chapter 12: leisure travel: tourism as activities of persons away from their usual environment for a period of no more than one year; any purpose of travel except commuting to work or school. Chris turner: on tipping in cuba: no other tourist destination on earth where canadians are so dominant (aside from. Positive: potential for improved training and skills of host country residents, profits from tourism being fed back into the community, enhanced infrastructure, strengthening of local culture"s pride. Negative: disruption of traditional employment in favour of tourism-related jobs, change in land-property values, threat of continuing post-colonialism (controlling country; establishing settlers for economic exploitation of the native people and their land) Classifying leisure in natural settings: wildlife viewing, hunting, fishing, residential wildlife related activities, etc.