Sociology 2260A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Carnival Legend, Water Slide, Rio De Janeiro
17 Apr 2018
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Getting where we want to go, when we want to get there: planes, trains and automobiles. India, mumbai (rail system: rails are still significant connects india, largest passenger rail network in the world, great way to get around europe but not necessarily a great way to travel when air. Infrastructure: tells us that tourism is not tourism in all of argentina, just buenos. Aires (dominant city: there are airports (1141) but only 156 with paved runways (if no paved runways, not an airport but a field, local travel: bus and train, air, tourist travel: more constrained. Amsterdam: #1 is frankfurt (rail, road, air) Infrastructure: build resorts developers built own airport, sewage, roads, water supply (for control) Infrastructure key to development yet taken for granted: built all inclusive resorts with local development yet spanish owners, we go to punta cana over other dominican locations, set the stage for other resorts to mirror (all-inclusive development)
