Geography 2144A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Maple Syrup, Indian Art, Monterey Bay Aquarium
19 Dec 2017
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Monday, October 16 2017
Lecture Five
Tourist Attractions
3 main types of attraction:
•Cultural
•Natural
•Entertainment oriented
Top 25 visited tourist attractions:
Youtube video: Tourist attractions in USA: Top 20 most visited USA tourist attractions
Classification of Recreation Resources
Cultural and Heritage
•Indigenous
•E.g., Indian art, maple syrup
•Colonial and nationalistic
•Frontier
•Initial early population settlement was pushed into the frontier of that country
•Immigrant
•Look at the areas where there are bands of immigration
•Most cities have a colonial and immigrant part of it (e.g., Chinatown in cities)
•Immigrant landscapes within cities (E.g., in Toronto there is Greek-town, Portugal
City, Chinatown)
•Industrial
•Example: York, Pennsylvania,
•Gettysburg (war front - people go back to see the battlefields)
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•Harley Davidson (Workers buy the products, all products are sold)
•Lancaster Country (Amish people live here)
•Hershey (Doesn’t exist in the town directly, but it’s where the chocolate is made)
•Mennonite community likes tourism
•Religious
•Pilgrimage
•Haj
•Diaspora
•March of Hope
•Birthright
•Architectural
•Cultural Pilgrimage
•Graceland (birth place of Elvis Presley)
•9/11 WTC (memorial in New York)
•Dakota Building (they are cultural motifs and they are equivalent in people’s fandom
and exposure)
Nature Based
•Ecotourism
•Wildlife viewing
•National and State parks
•Examples:
•Monterey Bay Aquarium
•Canadian Park system
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