Grade 11 Class: Civics Topic: Tourism Tourism - the temporary movement of people to destinations outside their normal places of work and residence Tourist- A person who travels away from home for leisure‚ Business or any other purposes for longer than a day Excursionist: Persons traveling for pleasure in a period less than 24 hours Types of Arrivals A foreign air arrival- arrives by scheduled or chartered airline or by a private plane. A foreign sea arrival- who arrives in The Bahamas
Premium Tourism
Effect of Tourism on the Great Barrier Reef Introduction The Great Barrier Reef is located in North Eastern Australia off the coast of Queensland. It is world renowned for its stunning scenery and its flora and fauna diversity‚ it has also been acknowledged as one of the seven natural wonders of the world. The Great Barrier Reef stretches across 344400km2 and includes thousands of individual reefs and hundreds of islands which are occupied by around 600 types of hard and soft coral‚ around 1625 varieties
Premium Great Barrier Reef Coral reef Coral
Tourism is defined as people traveling and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes not interrelated to the exercise of an activity rewarded from within the place visited. Tourism is mainly popular as a global freedom activity. Tourism can bring many economic and social benefits. Countries can promote their self internationally by making their environment pleasant for tourist to appreciate. Promotion of tourism
Premium Tourism England
In a newspaper article “Eco-tourism: It’s not easy being green”[1] dated in June‚ 2007‚ the author criticizing there are still ecological damages‚ especially the effect to the wild animals that accompanies the eco-tourism. It says‚ Eco-tourism‚ generally defined as “responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the welfare of local people”‚ is often misunderstood. And most of the travelers‚ even they are concerned about the environment of the places they visit
Premium Tourism Ecotourism World Tourism Organization
Total War impacted the citizens in the Homefront of Britain and Germany massively‚ as it had substantially negative social and economical impacts‚ as the resources available were directed towards war instead of the citizens. Additionally‚ Total War led to social unrest within both nations‚ and saw starvation and unhappiness become prevalent. Within the British Homefront‚ civilians were impacted greatly by Total War‚ which inevitably let to social unrest‚ alongside the ignoring of basic civil rights
Premium World War II World War I Adolf Hitler
HISTORY OF TOURISM → EARLY TRAVEL Earlier travel was essentially to seek food or to escape danger. Travel was also undertaken for trade. Growth of cities along fertile river banks like Nile etc. encouraged water travel. Ancient empires like the Romans helped shape modern travel. → THE EMPIRE ERA THE EGYPTIANS As its peak the travel for business and pleasure flourished. Travel to outlining cities was necessary. Various amenities were offered to travelers. They travelled for pleasure
Premium Roman Empire Tourism
covered an area of 1650 sq km which only takes a percentage of 1.3% of the whole Malaysia. Malacca can be divided into three parts which included the Central‚ Alor Gajah and Jasin. From the 13th century to the 14th century‚ Malacca has been one of the world greatest trading cities and it has been developed for more than 500 years in trading and cultural exchanges between East and West in the Straits of Malacca which made Malacca state a historical city in Straits of Melaka. Before the independency of
Premium Malacca Malaysia World Heritage Site
WORLD WAR 1 1914 – 1918 WW1 SUMMARY World War I‚ was the First ‘World War’‚ it was a global military conflict which took place primarily in Europe from 1914 to 1918. Over 40 million casualties resulted‚ including approximately 20 million military and civilian deaths. The Entente Powers‚ led by France‚ Russia‚ the British Empire‚ and later Italy (from 1915)‚ and the United States (from 1917)‚ defeated the Central Powers‚ led by the Austro-Hungarian‚ German‚ and Ottoman Empires. Russia withdrew
Premium World War I World War II
Tourism: Principles‚ Practices‚ Philosophies Part Five: Essentials of Tourism Research and Marketing Learning Objectives • Become familiar with the marketing mix and be able to formulate the best mix for a particular travel product. • Appreciate the importance of the relationship between the marketing concept and product planning and development. • Understand the vital relationship between pricing and marketing. • Know about distribution systems and how this marketing principle can best be applied
Premium Marketing
are becoming more exposed to this environment. In my younger years‚ my problems were the involvement of video games and later cell phones. I would like to share with you the impact that technology has had in my life. three major points will be the effects of video games and cell phone usage. Fleming‚ the founder of communication studies website‚ tells us that the Pew Internet Research Center calculated 75 percent of teens own cell phones. The age group is between 12-17 for the percents. The reason
Free Mobile phone Text messaging