GG294 Midterm: GG294 Midterm Review
Document Summary
Tourism is travel away from home for more than 24 hours. Travel: the act of moving outside one"s community for business or pleasure but not commuting to or from work or school. Spurred a growth of consumer-driven society in the western developed world and an emphasis on discretionary spending, greater disposable income and increased availability of leisure time, 5 days work weeks and more money. Post-communist countries began periods of economic growth, international and domestic tourism transformed by the economic climate of the period. Increasing global and free trade to fast growing economies in brazil, russia, china and india - increasing #s of middle class travelling - domestically and internationally. Recognition, conceptualization, terminology, reductionism rigour, theory, academic/practitioner divide, data sources. Traveller, tourist, visitor: a person who stays away from evidence from one night up to less than a year. Excursionist: a person who begins and ends their visit from the same base within the same 24 hours (cruise ship passengers)
