GEOG 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Natural Resource, Parachuting, Sports Tourism
29 Oct 2018
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Interpreting place as a product: consuming place through travel. Wanderlust - in place experience, tourism as a circuit, post 1945 trends, tourism and geography: types of tourism, consuming place though tourism. Place commodification, the intangible nature of the tourism product. Tourism is integrally connected to and driven by people desire to have an experience in and form relationship, with place and tourism is all about the production and consumption of in place experiences. The temporary relocation of people and outside their usual environment, for many reasons including any number of activities and return to their point of departure. Geographers are interested in the spatial spread of international tourism which took off in the post war period. Expected international tourist arrivals 2020: 1. 5 billion. How and why do places develop as centres of tourism. Travel flows and the large scale (temporary) movement of people on a global scale. Economic, social, cultural and economic impacts tourism has on local communities.
