National 5 Geography Mass Tourism -

Question 1

How Can you describe the growth in tourism between continents ? ( 4 marker )

Answer 1

All continents have had an increase in tourism from the year 1990 to the year 2010 (1)

The number of tourists has increased from 261.5 in the year 1990 to 476.6 by the year 2010 (1)

Asia and Pacific had an increase from 55.8 in the year 1990 to 203.8 in the year 2010 1)

Between 2008 and the year 2009, the Americas saw a decrease in tourists visiting from originally 147.8 to 140.6 million (1)

Africa had an increase in tourism from 2008 to the year 2009 with it the being 46.0 million tourists (1)

Question 2

How would you describe the growth of tourism from 1990 to 2010 ? ( 4 marker)

Answer 2

From the year 1995 to 2010 there has been a significant increase in arrivals (1)

In the year 1995 the number of tourists arriving was 525 million and then in 2010 950 million because it had increased by a lot (1)

The highest number in the graph of arrivals was 950 million (1)

The lowest number in the graph was 525 million for arrivals (1)