Trade, personal connnections, Technology Flashcards
Define Tourism
As the temporary movement of people away from the place where they normally work and live.
Define travel
The movement between places often a journey between different geographical locations
Why do people travel
Leisure, recreation and holidays - 53%
Visiting friends and relatives - 27% (VFR)
Business and professional - 14%
Not specified - 6%
Why does tourism matter
9% GDP
1/11 jobs
US$ 1.3 trillion in exports
6% of world trade
6% exports of least developed countries
What are the 4 types of tourists
orginized mass, idivdual mass, the drifter, the explorer
What is the orginized mass tourists
Organised mass tourists
Least adventurous
Purchases a package
Divorced from local community
Makes few decisions
What is the individual mass tourists
Individual mass tourists
Generally purchases a package
Uses accommodation as a
What is the drifter
The drifter
Identifies with the local community
Shuns contact with tourists
what is the expolorer
The explorer
Arranges their own trip
May go off the beaten track but still wants comfortable accommodation
What is the effect of Tourists going overseas for party trips
Businesses start changing to serve the tourists (e.g. charging higher prices, opening lots of bars instead of other shops, increase in social issues like public drunkenness, crime rates increase). This not only causes problems for this place for future tourists but especially for families who already lived there.
Whats the effect Large festivals (music festivals etc).
Significant issues with litter and sewage (garbage collection and sewer pipes not equipped to handle such a sudden increase in arrivals)
Effects are short term (“seasonal”), so the locals need to make enough money to last a long time (and pay for the clean-up…).
What is the effect of large numbers of people start going to a place, large companies want a share of the money they bring. So they build hotels and hire cheap local workers.
The hotel doesn’t pay to fix everything damaged by the tourists (e.g. destroyed beaches), they just collect the money and move it overseas (meaning the local area suffers while the large company profits).
Define export
An export is a product or service sold by one country
Businesses have focused a huge amount of effort to:
Businesses have focused a huge amount of effort to:
Find the cheapest materials
Find the cheapest workers
Find materials that don’t naturally exist in their own country
Find ways to sell their product to as many people (including other businesses) as possible
Whats the effect of People travelling to islands or fragile places like ancient cities can physically destroy it.
Place gets destroyed – tourists move on to next bucket list activity while the locals (and the world) has lost another important place.
Government may ban visitors to that place.
How is venice an example of the effects of travel and tourism
With only 60000 locals and 22million tourists going there eevry year venic has had many negative effects of travel including
Businesses and goverment only care aout making the toursists haooy scince they overun the city it makes everday life miserable for the toursits
This has then increased the price of living, scince tourists dont know any better they will usally just pay the price, but this is too high for the locals driving many out of there home
And finally tourists leave rubish and litter everywhere ruining the canals and beauty of venice
How are people trying to do to stop the negative effects travel has on venice
Locals have worked out that charging tourists more for everyday items but charging locals a cheaper price allows them to keep paying rent in their own city however this is illegal
The “detourism act” Pushes and ecourgages tourists to come at the less popular times to visit during the year and gives them helpful advice on how to be a good tourists
Tourists have been encouraged to reuse there plastic waterbottles insted of dumping them in the canals so theres lots of places to refill them
what are transport technologies
Transport technologies are systems and vehicles designed to move people, goods, or information efficiently
What are two examples of transport technologies
Train and passenger jets
Tell me about passenger jets and how they connect people
They connect people from different far away locations whcih is much cheaper and easier/more effecient than say travelling by boat, for an iscolated destination like australia this is an important way to connect
Price tickets have also gone down since 1970 by 2/3 thids making passengers tripple.
Tell me about trains and how they connect people
As we live in sydney and have very inconsistent tains we dont really know how fast trains can really be, like in other parts of the world like asia or europe high speed trains are much more common - for example travelling to paris to london takes a 6 hour drive but by train it only takes 2 hours.
What was internet and phone cable technology like in the 1990s
In the 1990s people had begin to connect to the internt through dial up. Modem would have to dial up the internet sevice providers number but it was incredibly slow and you needed a whole phone line to connect to the interent.
How has internet and phone cable technology changed since the 1990s
Now we have technology called ADSL services thos aloowed people to connect through mobile data technology as more mobile cell towers have been built and more compainies have been competing cell hone plan prices have drooped as speed increased to make video calls.
What are some positive impacts of technology
Some positive impacts are increased acsess to the internet allows basica things like increased acsess to software
Families in different part of the world of the country are connected
Spreading the world about justice or injustice is easier
People who want to speak up ahianst the goverment are safer
Acsessing knowledge is easier and faster
Travel rates have increased - instagram
Some negative impacts of technology
some people let technology takes them out of the physical society to live in social media
Lots of scammers and trollers
Travel exeriences have often just become instagram oppertunites
People can commit crimes easily like trolling
Fake news
Businesses have focused a huge amount of effort to:
Businesses have focused a huge amount of effort to:
Find the cheapest materials
Find the cheapest workers
Find materials that don’t naturally exist in their own country
Find ways to sell their product to as many people (including other businesses) as possible
What does australia import
Pertolium , motor vehicles, electronics for example.
What does australia export
exports coal, iron ores, natural gas for example.
What does farmers markets aim to do
They help farmers have a more stable income as the supermarets normally pay them less for there hard work for example paying them 3 bucks for a 7 buck product.
At farmers market they are selling the products straught to the consumers
What does trade mean to china
China is the biggest exporter
Australia’s main trading partner is China (2nd is Japan and 3rd is the U.S.).
What are the main exported good for the US
The U.S. exports more complex manufactured goods because they have a lot of expertise (and laws protecting inventions).
What are the main exported goods in the china
China exports electronic equipment and machinery because they focus on manufacturing (lots of cheap workers).
What are the main exported goods in Middle east
Middle Eastern countries export oil and petrol products (because they happen to be under the ground/sea in that part of the world).
What are the main exported goods in europe
European countries have a lot of expertise and experience in making cars (Volkswagon, Mercedes, BMW).
How to products mainly get to other countries
mostly by boat
What does world trade relie on ( if its mainy by boat?)
This means that world trade relies on:
Massive container ships
Ports that are efficient (get the containers off the ships quickly)
Making sure pirates don’t hijack your ship (not joking)
