LSR 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Heritage Tourism, Cultural Tourism, Canadian Dollar

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Leisure Studies
• Course: LSR 1100
• Professor: George Karlis

Document Summary

Tourism is looked as the largest industry within the leisure and recreation eld. Tourism can be looked at from the standpoint of the tourist and his or her travel experience. Or by the people who make a living serving tourists. Tourism: seeking pleasure and enjoyment through the activities of leisure and recreation. Travelling for pleasure and the business of attracting tourists. The activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes. A travel away from home experience for business purposes, religious pilgrimage, military service, satisfaction, obligation, health, or education. D"amore (1990): can bridge the psychological and cultural distances that separate people of different backgrounds. Mieczowski (1991): recreation is the motivating force behind tourism. It"s to seek pleasure and enjoyment through the activities of leisure and recreation; it"s the anticipated pursuit of pleasure to become tourists or to seek tourism experience.