week 8 quiz

Question 1

Which American Airline is the world’s largest low-cost airline?

Answer 1

Southwest Airline

Question 2

Hainan is…

Answer 2

A Chinese tropical Island destination

Question 3

All Inclusives solve which problem identified by economists?

Answer 3

The “holdup problem”

Question 4

Dr. Thomson, and the article on cruise ships, identify which phenoma with launching the popularity of cruise ships?

Answer 4

T.V. show “The Love Boat”

Question 5

Larger ships have many benefits but also problems. One problem is…

Answer 5

Too big to go to some destinations.

Question 6

The Icon of the Seas can carry how many passengers?

Answer 6

7600

Question 7

One of the many ways that the 747 changed air travel was that it was able to travel this many miles without refeuling.

Answer 7

8000

Question 8

According to Dr. Thomson’s video lecture what are the two preconditions for tourism to exist?

Answer 8

Security to travel and the resources to travel.

Question 9

Which plane, introduced in the 1930s changed commercial aviation?

Answer 9

The Douglas DC-3

Question 10

In the Foreign Policy article on All Inclusives one participant calls All Inclusives “an extraordinarily kind of colonial, you could say, model of vacationing.” Why?

Answer 10

Very little of the money generated stays in the area of the resort.