Tourism Flashcards
Adventure Tourism
Tourism to experience something exciting or risky in nature, e.g trekking, rock climbing, river rafting etc.
Health Tourism
Traveling to somewhere to recieve specialist treatment
Music Tourism
Tourism to visit music festivals
Rural Tourism
Tourism for leisure and pleasure
Sports Tourism
Tourism to participate in official sport competitions or to detox/refresh the soul
Eco Tourism
Tourism that does not damage the environment and helps local people
Cultural Tourism
Tourism to experience the place, artifacts, historic sites and indigenous
Disaster Tourism
Visiting Locations at which an environmental disaster, either natural or man-made, has occured
Gambling Tourism
Traveling for the purpose of gambling
Space Tourism
The act of traveling to space for pleasure or interest
Overtourism
When too many tourists visit one place, making it spoiled and difficult for the inhabitants who actually live there
Sustainable Tourism
Tourism that conserves primary tourist resources and supports the jobs and culture of local people
Nature Reserve
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An area of land that is protected in order to keep the animals and plants that live there safe, often due to the fact that they are rare
Afforestation
the action of planting trees on an area of land in order to make a forest
LIC
Low income country - Refers to countries with a low standard of living, in which most people are poor
HIC
High income country - refers to countries with a high standard of living in which most people are wealthy
