GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Big-Game Hunting, Waikiki, Theodore Roosevelt
6 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
GEOG 1000
January 10, 2018
Geographies of Tourism
Tourism involves
● Human mobility and how people experience places
● How tourism remakes places and landscapes
● Engagement with history of the land is superficial
Tourism Antecedents
● People travelled for conquest and trade
● Pilgrimages
○ Santiago de Compostela
○ Mecca
○ Buddhist towers
19th and 20th Century: tourism was for wealthy people
● President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
○ Big game hunting in Africa
● Raffles hotel, Singapore - hotels are remnants of old tourist destinations
Age of Elite travel: Railway hotels in Canada
● Boat and Train travel in the 19th century
● Can track where elite travel took place by looking at the hotels built
● Elite Travel: Trump’s kids big game hunting in Africa
Cuba
● Playground for wealthy and famous Americans
● Hotel Nacional de Cuba, built in 1930
Muskokas: Early Middle Class tourism for renewal
● Limited in terms of people who could travel
Post WW2
● International travel became more accessible
● 51% of people travel for leasure
● Half a billion people spend $1,000 per trip
● 30% of Caribbean economy based on tourism
Reason for Explosion in Tourism
1. Change in transportation technology
2. Expanding middle class in North America and Europe
3. A middle class culture that valued travel and ‘escape’ for purposes of “renewal”
Cultural: Middle class trying to adopt old middle class elite cultural practices, modern
pilgrimages.
Document Summary
Human mobility and how people experience places. Engagement with history of the land is superficial. 19th and 20th century: tourism was for wealthy people. Raffles hotel, singapore - hotels are remnants of old tourist destinations. Age of elite travel: railway hotels in canada. Boat and train travel in the 19th century. Can track where elite travel took place by looking at the hotels built. Elite travel: trump"s kids big game hunting in africa. Hotel nacional de cuba, built in 1930. Limited in terms of people who could travel. Half a billion people spend ,000 per trip. 30% of caribbean economy based on tourism. Reason for explosion in tourism: change in transportation technology, expanding middle class in north america and europe, a middle class culture that valued travel and escape" for purposes of renewal . Cultural: middle class trying to adopt old middle class elite cultural practices, modern pilgrimages. Benefits and problems for people in tourist sites.
