GEOG 1F90 Lecture 10: Lecture Note 10 (term 2)
28 Mar 2016
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Tourism"s significance: sheer scale of international travel. 2014 international tourism receipts: . 5 trillion (us: rapidity with tourism has developed. Increase in international tourist arrivals, 1950-2012: future growth. Expected international tourist arrivals 2020: 1. 5 billion. The idea of i want to travel around the world . Wanderlust: a strong desire or urge to wander or travel and explore the world. We travel not to escape life, but for like not to escape us . To travel is to take a journey into yourself . Tourist = a person who undertakes a tour for business, pleasure or education and return to the point of departure. Motivations for tourism may come from one or more sources. An industry is a group of firms engaged in the manufacture or production of a given product or service. In tourism, however, there are many products and services. Leiper (1979) proposed a tourism system with 5 basic elements: Type of activity engaged in on the trip.
