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1
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What is tourism?

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Tourism is leisure time spent away from your usual place of residence.

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What is the multiplier effect?

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Is the effect that happens when tourists spend money in a place and how that money affects all the sectors of the economy

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International tourists in 1950

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25 million

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International tourists in 2015

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1186 million

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International tourists forecast for 2030

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1.8 billion

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Domestic tourists in 2015

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5 to 6 billion

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How many jobs are dedicated for tourism?

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1/11

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What percentage of the world’s GDP is from tourism?

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10%

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Name the 3 countries/autonomous regions with the greatest reliance on tourism (%GDP)

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Macau
Maldives
British Virgin Islands

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10
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Give four reasons for why is tourism important

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10% of world’s GDP
1/11 jobs is due to tourism
Tourism is the fastest growing industry
It affects all sectors (multiplier effect)

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Write 3 reasons of why has tourism grown so rapidly on the last decades

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Globalisation
Job rights
Advertising
Easier travel

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Mass tourism

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Tourism that involves tens of thousands of people going to the same place usually at the same time

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Ecotourism

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Tourism to exotic, natural places in a reduced number, trying to not damage the place.

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Sustainable tourism

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Tourism that tries to be sustainable having a low impact on the environment and local culture.

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Extreme tourism

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Travel to dangerous, remote places often with difficult climate.

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Urban tourism

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Tourism in which a city is the main place of interest

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Sports tourism

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Tourism which involves either observing or participating in a sport event

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Medical tourism

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Travel to receive medical treatment

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Name 9 factors that affect tourist numbers

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Climate, natural beauty, history, political factors, accessibility and transport, conflict, advertising, economics, health scares

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What is a resort?

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A resort is most often a town that provides for the needs of holiday makers.

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Name the 6 steps of the butler model

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  1. Exploration
  2. Involvement
  3. Development
  4. Consolidation
  5. Stagnation
  6. Rejuvenation or decline
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Exploration

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The place starts to get few tourists and those tourists start to talk about the place.

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Involvement

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More tourists come and local people start to open shops, hotels, cafes etc.

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Development

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As it starts to get more advertised, more and more people go and so more hotels, cafes and shops open

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Consolidation

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Everybody knows about it, the place gets full of tourists.

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Stagnation

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The place gets so busy people stops to go and some shops and cafes close down

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Rejuvenation

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The place re-advertises itself and tourists numbers rise again

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Decline

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The places starts t look down and cafes, shops and hotels shut down until the place dies out as a tourist destination.

29
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When and how expensive was the blackpool rejuvenation campaign

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2000

300 million euros

30
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Name three things the blackpool council intended to do in the rejuvenation campaign

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Make the beach more attractive
Smarten up the town centre
Bring new attractions

31
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Name characteristics for extreme tourists

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DINKs (Double Income No Kids)
Young (30s)
Adrenaline rush needing people (high-stress jobs)
Fit and healthy

32
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Why is extreme tourism increasing?

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Demand for untouched landscapes
Little investment needed
Improvements in travel
Constant advertising

33
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Where is the Everest?

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It is located in the Mahalangur mountain range in Nepal

34
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How much does Mount Everest measures?

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8,878 metres

35
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Name 3 activities to do at the Everest

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Climbing Mount Everest
Photographic tourism in Everest
Observation of little avalanches

36
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From where to where does the price of an expedition to the everest rounds about?

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30,000 to 85,000 dollars

37
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How much do most people pay for an expedition to the everest?

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45,000 dollars

38
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The money you spend in tourism in the everest goes to…

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Travel agencies 
Government
Shops
Insurance
Companies 
Guides
39
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In an expedition to the Everest, you mostly spend money in….

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Travel, insurance, material and guides

40
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Name three ways in which tourists are threatening the Everest

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Rubbish (cant biodegrade due to low temperatures)
Toxic rubbish
Using up natural resources

41
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Mention four ways in which tourism is managed in the Everest

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Every climber has to collect 8kg of rubbish
5% of Everest income goes directly to rubbish removal
Reduced permit fees
Safer journey

42
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Carrying capacity

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Maximum population size of the species that an environment can sustain

43
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Name four environmental benefits of ecotourism in costa rica

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Less roads that disturb the rainforest
Reduces logging and deforestation
Increase the number of national parks and protected areas
Tourists are educated and now aware about how important the rainforest is

44
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Name four economic benefits of ecotourism in costa rica

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Tourism is key to costa ricas economy
Profits are reinvested into national parks
Helps many other sectors to grow (coffee)
Creates jobs for local people

45
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Give three examples of benefits of ecotourism in Monteverde

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Ecotourists are respectful
Authorities protect areas in the national parks
Reinvests 80% of its profits in local community

46
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Name the principal environmental problem with ecotourism in Costa Rica

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TOO MANY visitors put pressure in the fragile environment

47
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Name two economic problems with ecotourism in Costa Rica

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Local people don’t benefit as much as they would like

Foreign companies build infrastructure and give managerial positions to foreigners creating a profit leakage

48
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Give two problems with ecotourism in Monteverde

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Land prices have increased

Some activities practiced there aren’t so sustainable like building infrastructure

49
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What was the Golden Toad and when did its conservation project begin

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A Monteverde endemic specie which had a conservation project since 1970

50
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Where is Dubai?

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United Arab Emirates (Middle East)

51
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Give 7 reasons for why is Dubai famous for

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Tallest hotel in the world 
Luxury
Resorts
Oil
Desert
No taxes
State of the Art
52
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What was Dubai at the 18th century?

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A pearl fishing village

53
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What did Dubai do at the 19th/20th century?

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Trading partner with Iran and India

54
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What was the population of Dubai in 1960?

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20,000

55
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When was oil discovered in Dubai

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1966

56
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What happened when Dubai discovered oil?

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There was a huge increase in wealth used to develop Dubai with modern roads, schools, healthcare, transport and NO TAXES

57
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What happened in Dubai in 1990s ?

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It stopped being a centre for gold smuggling

58
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In the present day, what percent does oil occupy from Dubai’s total income?

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3%

59
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Give the main social problem in Dubai

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Lower payed and poor living conditions to migrant workers

60
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Give three environmental problems with tourism in Dubai

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Each citizen of Dubai uses up two times more resources than a person in the UK
Sea bed is dredged to build artificial islands
Non-renewable energy methods are used

61
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Give the economic benefit in Dubai

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Makes the economy grow

62
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Wilderness

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Area of land that has been largely undisturbed by modern human development

63
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Sustainability

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Attending the social, economic and environmental needs to make development durable.

64
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Economic leakage

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When a part of some income goes to other countries economy

65
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Why is tourism in national parks increasing?

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Offers amazing landscapes
Accesible
Natural reserves
Releases urban stress living

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