Sports, Tourism, and Leisure

Question 1

Tourism

Answer 1

Travel away from home at least one night for the purpose of leisure. (excludes day-trippers)

Question 2

Ecotourism

Answer 2

Tourism focusing on the natural environment and local communities

Question 3

Heritage tourism

Answer 3

Tourms based on historic legacy (landscape feature, historic building or event) as its major attraction

Question 4

Sustainable tourism

Answer 4

Tourism that conserves primary tourist resources and supports the livelihoods and culture of local people

Question 5

Tourist hotspot

Answer 5

• Areas of intense sporting or leisure activity that attracts above average numbers of visitors
• Primary and secondary resources are widely avaliable and accessible
• Limited in deterrents

Question 6

Tourism deterents

Answer 6

Crime, political unrest, racism, etc

Question 7

Primary tourist resources

Answer 7

Comes from the land/culture of the people

consists of natural and cultural resources

Question 8

Natural tourist resources

Answer 8

Climate, landscape, ecosystem, etc

Question 9

Cultural tourist resources

Answer 9

arts, traditions, archaeoligical values, food, etc

Question 10

Secondary toursit resources

Answer 10

More modernly created by humans

Question 11

Sectors of secondary tourist resources

Answer 11

• accomodation sector (hotels, camping, etc)
• Catering sector (food)
• Travel organization sector (agencies, tour operators, etc)
• Transportation sector (airplanes, boats, trains, busses, ect)
• Entertainment sector (gambling, clubs, museums, zoos, theater, etc)
• Information sector (tourism information network)
• Supplementary services, facilities and services (bathrooms, water, etc)

Question 12

Unsustainable tourism

Answer 12

Tourism that cannot continue into the future based on damage to local culture, environment, economy, etc.
Tourists exceed carrying capacity

Question 13

Carrying Capacity

Answer 13

How many people a place can support

Question 14

Physical Carrying Capacity

Answer 14

Maximum number of people who can use a space for the purpose of tourism

Question 15

Perceptual Carrying Capacity

Answer 15

The level reached when local residents/tourists of an ara no longer want tourists because they are destroying the environment, damaging the local culture, or crowding them out of local acitivites.

Question 16

Environmental Carrying Capacity

Answer 16

The level of tourist developmnt or recreational activity beyond which the environment as previously experience is degraded or compromised.

Question 17

TNC

Answer 17

Transnational Corporations, companies that are based in one country but may operate in others

Question 18

Pros of Tourism TNCs

Answer 18

• Travel could be cheaper
• Cheaper for company because they can have one office
• Simple for travelers
• Tour companies could be in travlers language

Question 19

Cons of travel TNCs

Answer 19

• could increase prices from lack of competition
• could diminish profits for local economy because they control so much that they can demand lower prices from their supplies

Question 20

Vertical integration

Answer 20

A strategy that a company can use in order to gain more control over the market and thus more profit
Owns every step fo production process

Question 21

Horizontal integration

Answer 21

A strategy that a company can use in order to gain more control over the market and thus more profit
Owns multiple of similar service/production method

Question 22

Leisure

Answer 22

Any freely chosen activity or experience that takes place in non-work/school time

Question 23

Niche tourism

Answer 23

tourism that appeals to a specific audience/market.

Question 24

Temporary site of leisure

Answer 24

large-scale sporting, musical, cultural or religious festivals