Tourism Exam 3 – Study Guide, Revision Notes, and Practice Questions for Exam
Preparation
scale, geographic location, and special interest - ✔✔3 ways to classify tourism (based on the
primary motive of travel)
relates primarily to numbers of people involved (mass vs other) - ✔✔scale
ex. remote rural area vs urban setting - ✔✔geographic location
motivation ex. leisure vs business, activity, attraction - ✔✔special interest
urban- trips and visits with a focus on toenailed and city destinations ex. Baltimore, Barcelona;
rural- small population size than urban - ✔✔urban vs rural tourism
subset of cultural tourism; past generation that has been preserved ex. Lincoln Memorial,
Pyramids - ✔✔heritage tourism
trips and visits to health resorts; ex. spa, health cruises - ✔✔health tourism
visits to vineyards, wineries; ex. Burgundy France Tour - ✔✔wine and alcohol tourism
the desire to experience a particular types of food, the produce of a specific region, or even
taste dishes of a particular chef- main motivation for travel; ex. Pike's Place Market -
✔✔culinary tourism
travel that contains an element of personal challenge, through controlled risk, daring,
excitement ex. X-games - ✔✔adventure tourism
, trips motivated by the prospect of sexual encounters ex. Amsterdam - ✔✔sex tourism
traveling to sites where death and suffering are the main theme ex. Chernobyl's Reactor -
✔✔dark tourism
the world's largest industry; increasingly the "new economic generator" replacing declining
activity in agriculture, mining, and manufacturing - ✔✔Tourism is....
1) maximize the psychological experience for tourists 2) maximize profits for businesses 3)
maximize primary and secondary benefits for tourist destinations - ✔✔3 major goals in
tourism
attainment of an optimum return from the use of scare resources; How should scare resources
be allocated to fulfill both psychological and physical demands?; ex. Kangaroo Island -
✔✔Optimization
demand, supply of attractive resources, time constraints, legal, indivisibles,, self-imposed, lack
of knowledge, limits on supportive resources - ✔✔Constraints
number of visitors, visitor expenditures, multiplier effect, employment - ✔✔generators of
economic impact
reflects the amount of new economic activity generated from tourist expenditures ex. income,
employment, capital - ✔✔the multiplier effect
leakage= savings and imports; savings- money set aside imports- spending on tourism needs in
sources outside the destination area - ✔✔leakage
Preparation
scale, geographic location, and special interest - ✔✔3 ways to classify tourism (based on the
primary motive of travel)
relates primarily to numbers of people involved (mass vs other) - ✔✔scale
ex. remote rural area vs urban setting - ✔✔geographic location
motivation ex. leisure vs business, activity, attraction - ✔✔special interest
urban- trips and visits with a focus on toenailed and city destinations ex. Baltimore, Barcelona;
rural- small population size than urban - ✔✔urban vs rural tourism
subset of cultural tourism; past generation that has been preserved ex. Lincoln Memorial,
Pyramids - ✔✔heritage tourism
trips and visits to health resorts; ex. spa, health cruises - ✔✔health tourism
visits to vineyards, wineries; ex. Burgundy France Tour - ✔✔wine and alcohol tourism
the desire to experience a particular types of food, the produce of a specific region, or even
taste dishes of a particular chef- main motivation for travel; ex. Pike's Place Market -
✔✔culinary tourism
travel that contains an element of personal challenge, through controlled risk, daring,
excitement ex. X-games - ✔✔adventure tourism
, trips motivated by the prospect of sexual encounters ex. Amsterdam - ✔✔sex tourism
traveling to sites where death and suffering are the main theme ex. Chernobyl's Reactor -
✔✔dark tourism
the world's largest industry; increasingly the "new economic generator" replacing declining
activity in agriculture, mining, and manufacturing - ✔✔Tourism is....
1) maximize the psychological experience for tourists 2) maximize profits for businesses 3)
maximize primary and secondary benefits for tourist destinations - ✔✔3 major goals in
tourism
attainment of an optimum return from the use of scare resources; How should scare resources
be allocated to fulfill both psychological and physical demands?; ex. Kangaroo Island -
✔✔Optimization
demand, supply of attractive resources, time constraints, legal, indivisibles,, self-imposed, lack
of knowledge, limits on supportive resources - ✔✔Constraints
number of visitors, visitor expenditures, multiplier effect, employment - ✔✔generators of
economic impact
reflects the amount of new economic activity generated from tourist expenditures ex. income,
employment, capital - ✔✔the multiplier effect
leakage= savings and imports; savings- money set aside imports- spending on tourism needs in
sources outside the destination area - ✔✔leakage
