GEOG233 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Deng Xiaoping, Maoism, Prime Factor

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Geography and Environmental Management
• Course: GEOG233
• Professor: Judith Cukier

Document Summary

The connections between tourism and fashion have been close but in contemporary societies that have become characteristically cosmopolitan and mobile, there seems little doubt that a foreign holiday has become a mark of status. Fashion for international travel reflects a greater level of public awareness that is actively formed and reformed by promotion of travel in the media and through the travel industry itself. International tourism has expanded because tourists are more competent at the business of international travel. Technology exerts a number of direct impacts upon the development of foreign tourism but the most significant technological factors relate to the progressive globalisation transport and telecommunications. In the area of transport, foreign travel has been shaped especially by the development of commercial air services and also by the acceleration of international rail services and the extension of motorway links within major international destination areas.