1.1 tourism

Question 1

what is a tourist?

Answer 1

• a person who makes a trip outside his/her usual environment for leisure or personal purposes
  domestic tourist: tourist who travels within their own country
  international tourist: tourist who travel abroad to another country

Question 2

what is a tourism system?

Answer 2

comprises of:
- tourism generating region: the region where tourists come from, and where people and businesses that offer tourism products and experience (such as our operators) may be based.

• tourist destination region: region which attracts tourists. attraction, amenities and facilities which cater to the needs of tourists are located here. region that experiences the consequences of tourism development

-transit route: the region or route a tourist travels through to reach their destination. route links the tourist destination regions to the tourist generating regions. includes stopover points, which might be used for convenience or because of the existence of attractions.

-> components function to enable people to travel from the tourist generating to destination regions
-> interconnected as each components can affect and be affected by other components

Question 3

how do the availability of transit routes influence travel between regions?

Answer 3

• availability of transit routes influence the volume and direction of travel
  -> when there are limited or inconvenient transit routes, the volume of travel between the regions might be low
  -> when there are more transit routes available, the volume of travel might increase.
  -> when there are convenient or attractive transit routes available, the direction of travel might change. tourists may choose to travel via transit route instead of traveling directly to destination region.

example: the lack of direct flights between singapore and brazil and the inconvenient transit routes between them result in fewer tourists travelling from singapore to brazil.

Question 4

what is the relationship between tourist generating and destination regions (push-pull factors)

Answer 4

the movement of tourists from generating to destination regions occurs due to a combination of push-pull factors.
- tourist generating regions create push factors, while destination regions create pull factors.

push factors at generating regions:
-factors that cause tourist to want to leave the generating region. these factors may be caused by the environment in the generating region.

pull factors at destination regions:
- qualities in tourist destination regions that attract tourists

-> interplay between push and pull factors results in tourists developing the motivation or need to travel.
-> each tourist’s decision to travel is based on different combinations of push-pull factors.