unit 1 tourism part 1

ELECTIVE GEOGRAPHYOUR CHANGING WORLD

GLOBAL TOURISM

IS TOURISM THE WAY TO GO?

Typical?

Crazy

Tourist?

Stereotype?

Exploitatio

n?

GATEWAY 1

HOW DOES THE NATURE OF TOURISM VARY FROM PLACE TO PLACE?

Visit the Geography Unit Facebook Page, look for the fortnightly online research

assignment and prepare for the questions.

WHAT IS TOURISM

Tourism is the activity or practice of touring.

The business of providing accommodation, services for the purpose of touring.

ARE THEY TOURISTS?• Students on an overnight Learning

Journey to Malacca.

• Students doing a week long Overseas Immersion Program in China.

• A businessman who goes to London for a week to meet clients and have meetings.

• A mother who brings her child back to her ancestral village in another country for a month-long visit?

• Students going to their own school for a 3 day camp.

Categorise the

information into a table.Tourists VS Non-tourists

WHO ARE TOURISTS?

Person who travel and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than 24 hours but not more than a consecutive year for leisure, business or other purposes.

PG 5

HOW DO TOURIST DESTINATIONS DIFFER?

• Scenic Beauty

• Good Facilities

• Rich Culture

• Places of Conflict

• Space Tourism

PG 5

SCENIC BEAUTY

SCENIC BEAUTY - HONEYPOT TOURISM

Tourism that attracts large crowds to scenic sites

Tend to be overcrowded during peak seasons

Tourist facilities are developed at these sites eg: hotels, shopping centres, transport stations

More tourists are attracted to these sites as a result, like bees to flowers (Honeypot)

SCENIC BEAUTY

MOUNTAINS

• Winter sports

• Mountaineering, hiking

• Bird and wildlife watching

• Himalayas, Asia

• Rockies, North America

LANDSCAPE BEAUTY

• Jiuzhaigou, China

• Sahara Desert, West Africa

• Grand Canyon, USA

• Halong Bay, Vietnam

• Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe & Zambia

SCENIC BEAUTYEXAMPLES YOU SHOULD KNOW

COASTAL RESORTS

• Southeast Asia – Bali, Phuket

• Mediterranean Sea - Cancun, Caribbean Islands

• Mexico – gulf of mexico

WILDLIFE

• Safaris in the plains of Kenya

• Great Barrier Reef, Australia (diving site)

PITSTOP 2

Turn to Pg8 of your textbook.

Let’s attempt Pitstop 2 together!

LET’S LOOK AT VICTORIA FALLS

GOOD FACILITIES

GOOD FACILITIES

• MICE

• Educational facilities

• Medical and Spa facilities

• Theme Parks

GOOD FACILITIES - MICE

• Meetings, Incentives, Conventions & Events

• Venues that can host large-scale meetings and conventions

• Supporting infrastructure – hotels, retail outlets, transport facilities

• E.g Singapore (pg 8 & 9)

GOOD FACILITIES - EDUCATIONAL

• Include attractions that attract people in search for study tours (Angkor Wat)

• Travel for education purposes or to learn something about a place

• Intensive overseas education programme where universities are reputed for education excellence

• E.g. United Kingdom (pg 10)

GOOD FACILITIES – MEDICAL AND SPA

• Travelling for medical reasons – Medical tourism

• To avoid long waiting periods or high medical costs back home

• In search of higher quality medical care

• Eg. South Korea – cosmetic surgery

GOOD FACILITIES – MEDICAL AND SPA

• Travelling for health reasons – Health tourism

• To maintain, enhance or restore their minds and bodies

• Include spa towns, thermal springs and mud pools

• Eg: Dead Sea (between Jordan and Israel) – (pg 11)

GOOD FACILITIES – THEME PARKS

• Places with amusement park settings or attractions with a central theme

• Refer to extensive examples in page 13…

GOOD FACILITIESEXAMPLES YOU SHOULD KNOW

MICE

• Singapore

• Barcelona, Spain

• Berlin, Germany

Educational

• United Kingdom

• Melbourne, Australia

• Beijing, China

Medical and Spa

• South Korea

• Budapest, Hungary (spa)

Theme Parks

• Tokyo Disneyland

• Universal Studios, Los Angeles

PITSTOP 3

Turn to Pg 13 of your textbook.

Using what we have covered thus far,

complete the table (Qn 6).

4 minutes

RICH CULTURE

RICH CULTURE

• Heritage Tourism

• Film-induced Tourism

• Gourmet Food and Shopping Tourism

• Pilgrimage Tourism

RICH CULTURE - HERITAGE

Lost city of the Incas – Machu Picchu, Peru

RICH CULTURE - HERITAGE

• Locations for tourists to experience different cultures and understand their history better

• Promotes a country’s identity, culture and history to international tourists

• Eg: museums, traditional festivals, national and historical monuments

RICH CULTURE – FILM-INDUCED

Hobbit Land, New Zealand

RICH CULTURE –FILM-INDUCED

• Locations featured in films

• To understand how certain scenes in the movies were filmed

• To understand how these places inspired the film

RICH CULTURE –GOURMET & SHOPPING

• Tourism for the purpose of enjoying cuisines or to shop

• Gourmet – Hong Kong

• Shopping – street markets of London, UK

RICH CULTURE - PILGRIMAGEGood Friday at Jerusalem, Israel

RICH CULTURE –PILGRIMAGE

• Travel to take part in religious activities

• Usually involves a journey to a sacred or religious place

• Major religious holidays also play a role in drawing large crowds

RICH CULTUREEXAMPLES YOU SHOULD KNOW

Heritage

• Beijing, China (Forbidden City, Great wall of China)

• Athens, Greece (Acropolis)

• Machu Picchu, Peru

Film-Induced

• Mumbai, India (Slumdog Millionaire)

• New Zealand (Lord of the Rings)

• Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China (Avatar)

Pilgrimage

• Vatican City (Easter for Catholics)

• Mecca in Saudi Arabia (Hajj for Muslims)

• Varanasi, India (Ganga Festival for Hindus)

CONFLICT

Syria DRC

N Korea

HIROSHIMA

PLACES OF CONFLICT – DARK TOURISM

DARK TOURISM

• Travel to places associated with death and tragedy

• Wars, battles, man-made tragedies

• Tourists include survivors, relatives and friends of those affected, people interested to know more about the events

• Eg: battlefields, museums, memorials, fortifications

SPACE TOURISMTo infinity and beyond???

SPACE TOURISM

• Travel beyond the earth’s atmosphere into space

• Suborbital flights can last less than a day

• Russian Space Agency - trips to International Space Station

• Costly – US$20 to US$35 million

• Trips last between 8 to 15 days

HOW CAN SINGAPORE COMPETE ?

HOW CAN SINGAPORE COMPETE ?

• Make a list of Singapore’s tourist attractions

• Classify which type of attractions they each belong to

Good Facilities?

• MICE

• Educational

• Health and Spa

• Theme Parks

Rich Culture?

• Heritage

• Film-induced

• Gourmet & Shopping

• Pilgrimage

Scenic Beauty?

Dark Tourism?

FACTORS AFFECTING NATURE OF TOURISM

• Physical Factors

• Type of landscape• Weather and Climate

• Human Factors

• Marketing• Infrastructure• Costs

• Different groups of people promoting tourism

• Government• Media• International Organisations• Travel writers

ROLES OF DIFFERENT GROUPS IN PROMOTING TOURISM

• Government

• Media

• International Organisations

• Org for Economic Co-operation & Development

• UNWTO• Travel Writers

GOVERNMENT

• The government is directly involved in the planning, funding and building infrastructure projects linked to tourism

• Eg: airports, roads

• Ensure safety and security of tourist sites

• Set up agencies tasked to devise strategies to promote tourism

• Eg: Singapore Tourism Board

MEDIA

• Includes television, radio, newspapers and the Internet

• Positive reports can encourage more tourists, eg good shopping opportunities

• Negative reports can deter visitors, eg occurrence of natural disasters

• Increases awareness of tourist destinations

INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS• An international group of different countries that

work together for a common purpose

• Reports produced by such organisations can encourage or discourage tourists in visiting a place

• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Tourism Committee

• UNWTO

• Eg: Health updates and travel advisories provided by World Health Organisation (WHO) during the avian influenza would discourage visitors from visiting at-risk countries

TRAVEL WRITERS

• Articles and reviews of travel writers appear in guidebooks, travelogues, magazines and Internet reviews

• Includes suggested itineries, advice on the cheapest accommodation, best gourmet cuisine, the ‘dos and don’ts’ of tourist behaviour and etc

• Source of inspiration to readers

• Increases awareness of tourist destinations