Tourism Flashcards
Tourist
A person visiting somewhere they don’t live or stay permanently.
Dual citenzship
Where someone it citizen of more than one country
Types of tourists
Drifter
Explorer
Organised mass
Individaul mass
Drifter tourist
live with locals, avoids tourists and engages in risky behavior
Explorer tourist
Arranged it ternary themselves, offbeat track and need comfy accomadation
Organized mass tourist
Least adventurous, buy travel package so they organize nothing
Individual mass tourist
Similar to organized mass but have some control of itenary
Types of tourism
Medical
Business
Recreation
Family
Medical tourism
travelling elsewhere for medical procedures because it’s cheaper and faster
Business tourism
Travelling as apart of current job or for a new job.
direct and indrect jobs
Direct - jobs related to hotels and tourist destinations
Indirect - Jobs that support direct jobs
global tourism
movement of tourists across the world
how does improvements in society = rise in global tourism?
rise in wages
rise in work leave
top 10 destinations (2017)
- France
- Spain
- USA
- China
- Italy
- Mexico
- UK (England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland)
- Turkey
- Germany
- Thailand
top 10 tourist spenders (2017)
- China
- USA
- Germany
- UK
- France
- Australia
- Canada
- Russian Federation
- South Korea
- Italy
^ (all are developed countries)