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
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Tourism is an activity that is critical to the economic and social development. By World Tourism Organization (World Tourism Organization) has predicted that by the year 2563 will have a number of international tourists to 1‚600 million of the estimated growth rate of tourism in developing countries. Expected to increase approximately 4 percent per year‚ particularly the industrialized countries have a rate increase of about 2.5 percent per year‚ the study found. Tourists with travel in most foreign
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Sangam (India) Limited • Annual Report 2011-12 Sangam (India) Limited Forward-looking Statements The report contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. When used in this discussion‚ the words like ‘plans’‚ ‘expects’‚ ‘anticipates’‚ ‘believes’‚ ‘intends’‚ ‘estimates’‚ or other similar expressions as they relate to Company or its business are intended to identity such forwardlooking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and expectations
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The World Tourism Organization had its initial stages as the International assembly of Official Tourist Traffic relations set up in 1925 in The Hague. It was renamed the International Union of Official Travel Organizations (IUOTO) later than World War II and shifted to Geneva. IUOTO was a scientific‚ non-governmental organization‚ whose relationship at its climax included 109 National Tourist Organizations (NTOs) and 88 Associate Members‚ among them private and public groups. As tourism raised and
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1 Introduction and background of Jeju Island Jeju Island was chosen as the destination for developing the destination marketing. Current segmentation marketing strategy will be discussed in briefing paper as the purpose. Both tourism literature and theory will be used to analyse the data and information generated from various resources. And the outcome of the research and analysis will be present in the finding parts so that recommendations for further destination marketing development
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Utility • Comparative price of services offered • Geographical position and isolation • Range of services offered • Level of competition between services ELEMENTS OF A TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM • THE WAY- medium of travel used. ❖ Artificial- roads and railways ❖ Natural- air and water • THE TERMINAL- gives access to the way of the user. • THE CARRYING UNIT- the actual transportation media- the vehicle which facilitates the movement
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HOW TOURISM CAN CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIO-CULTURAL CONSERVATION Negative socio-cultural impacts from tourism How tourism can contribute to socio-cultural development Tourism can contribute to positive developments‚ not just negative impacts. It has the potential to promote social development through employment creation‚ income redistribution and poverty alleviation. Other potential positive impacts of tourism include: Tourism as a force for peace Traveling brings people into contact with each other and
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Tourism Tourism is the act of travel for the purpose of not only recreation‚ but also the provision of services for this act. It might occupy local services such as entertainment‚ accommodation and catering for tourists. It may seem‚ that tourism brings only benefits‚ but further consideration shows that it also has disadvantages. Firstly‚ many countries depend heavily upon travel expenditures by foreigners as a source of taxation and as a source of income for
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Tourism Tourism is the act of travel for the purpose of recreation and business‚ and the provision of services for this act. Tourists are persons who are "travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited" (official UNWTO definition). A more comprehensive definition would be that tourism is a service industry. Many
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HOW DOES TOURISM IMPACT THE ENVIRONMENT The effect of tourism on the environment can be both positive and negative. Each person or group of people will impact the area they visit in a different way. Whether it is in a negative or positive manner is entirely up to the visitor. Let’s consider the NEGATIVE impacts first: POLLUTION - This is probably the biggest negative factor concerning tourism. People have to travel to their destination. It doesn’t matter if it’s by plane to another country or
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