Leisure, Sports & Tourism

Question 1

Leisure

Answer 1

Any freely chosen activity or experience that takes place in non-work time. Includes sport, leisure and recreation

Question 2

Recreation

Answer 2

A leisure-time activity undertaken voluntarily and for enjoyment. it includes individual pursuits, organized outings and events, and non-paid (non-professional) sports

Question 3

Sport

Answer 3

A physical activity involving events and competitions at the national and international scale with professional participants

Question 4

Tourism

Answer 4

Travel away from home for a least one night for the purpose of leisure. this excludes day-trippers, even if international

Question 5

Sustainable tourism

Answer 5

Conserves primary tourist resources and supports the livelihood and culture of local people

Question 6

Niche tourism

Answer 6

Tourism that caters to a small group of tourists, often those intolerant of crowds. often centered around sustainability rather than mass tourism

Question 7

Ecotourism

Answer 7

A ‘green’ and ‘alternative’ form of tourism that aims to preserve the environment by managing it responsibly and sustainably.

Question 8

Primary tourist resources

Answer 8

The pre-existing attractions for tourism or recreation (those not built specifically for tourism), including climate, scenery, wildlife, indigenous people, culture and heritage sites

Question 9

Secondary tourist recourses

Answer 9

Include accommodation, catering, entertainment and shopping - built for tourists in mind

Question 10

Carrying capacity

Answer 10

The maximum number of visitors/participants that a site/event can satisfy at one time

Question 11

Environmental carrying capacity

Answer 11

The maximum number before the local environment becomes damaged

Question 12

Perceptual carrying capacity

Answer 12

The maximum number before a specific group of visitors consider the level of impact, such as noise, to be excessive

Question 13

Thanatourism

Answer 13

Dark tourism, focused on events such as war, disasters, massacres where people have died. Sometimes called grief tourism

Question 14

Staycation

Answer 14

Holidays in hometown, but taking part in tourist activities

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Honey-pot or Hotspot

Answer 15

Location to which tourists are attracted, often causing environmental damage due to numbers exceeding the carrying capacity

Question 16

Range

Answer 16

How far people will travel for a service, good or function

Question 17

Sphere of influence

Answer 17

Area served by a service, good or function

Question 18

Threshold population

Answer 18

Amount of people needed to keep a service or function open

Question 19

Leisure hierarchy

Answer 19

Model that shows ranking of leisure facilities based on size, threshold and/or location

Question 20

Peak Land Value Intersection (PLVI)

Answer 20

Where two or more interact, land values will be at their highest

Question 21

Brownfield sites

Answer 21

Run down area within the city; once developed but are now derelict

Question 22

Rural-urban fringe

Answer 22

Areas where the city meets the countryside

Question 23

Central Business District (CBD)

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Central area of a city where most business takes place

Question 24

Urban regeneration

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Improving the run down areas of a city through investment in infrastructure, housing and business opportunities

Question 25

Heritage tourism

Answer 25

Focused on UNESCO sites, protected and historical sites

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Adventure tourism

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Involves a real or perceived risk visiting remote areas, or taking part in more risky physical activities

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Multiplier effect

Answer 27

Initial amount of spending causes more money to circulate in the economy

Question 28

Leakage

Answer 28

Money that leaves a country or business and goes to another country

Question 29

Pro-poor tourism

Answer 29

Tourism that results in benefits for poor people

Question 30

Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

Answer 30

Isolated small islands that have struggled to find economic prosperity

Question 31

Diaspora

Answer 31

A population of a country who have migrated abroad and keep strong identity ties with the homeland

Question 32

Mass tourism

Answer 32

Tourism that involves large number of people, often descending on one location during a small-time frame

Question 33

Movie tourism

Answer 33

Visits to the location that films were set

Question 34

VFR

Answer 34

Refers to ‘Visiting friends and relatives’

Question 35

UNESCO

Answer 35

UN branch responsible for the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage sites