unit 1 tourism part 1
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O Level Unit 1 Tourism part 1TRANSCRIPT
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ELECTIVE GEOGRAPHYOUR CHANGING WORLD
GLOBAL TOURISM
IS TOURISM THE WAY TO GO?
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Typical?
Crazy
Tourist?
Stereotype?
Exploitatio
n?
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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.
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WHAT IS TOURISM
Tourism is the activity or practice of touring.
The business of providing accommodation, services for the purpose of touring.
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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
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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
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HOW DO TOURIST DESTINATIONS DIFFER?
• Scenic Beauty
• Good Facilities
• Rich Culture
• Places of Conflict
• Space Tourism
PG 5
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SCENIC BEAUTY
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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)
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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
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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)
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PITSTOP 2
Turn to Pg8 of your textbook.
Let’s attempt Pitstop 2 together!
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GOOD FACILITIES
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GOOD FACILITIES
• MICE
• Educational facilities
• Medical and Spa facilities
• Theme Parks
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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)
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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)
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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
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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)
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GOOD FACILITIES – THEME PARKS
• Places with amusement park settings or attractions with a central theme
• Refer to extensive examples in page 13…
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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
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PITSTOP 3
Turn to Pg 13 of your textbook.
Using what we have covered thus far,
complete the table (Qn 6).
4 minutes
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RICH CULTURE
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RICH CULTURE
• Heritage Tourism
• Film-induced Tourism
• Gourmet Food and Shopping Tourism
• Pilgrimage Tourism
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RICH CULTURE - HERITAGE
Lost city of the Incas – Machu Picchu, Peru
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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
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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
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RICH CULTURE –GOURMET & SHOPPING
• Tourism for the purpose of enjoying cuisines or to shop
• Gourmet – Hong Kong
• Shopping – street markets of London, UK
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RICH CULTURE - PILGRIMAGEGood Friday at Jerusalem, Israel
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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
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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)
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CONFLICT
Syria DRC
N Korea
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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
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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
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HOW CAN SINGAPORE COMPETE ?
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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?
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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
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ROLES OF DIFFERENT GROUPS IN PROMOTING TOURISM
• Government
• Media
• International Organisations
• Org for Economic Co-operation & Development
• UNWTO• Travel Writers
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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
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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
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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
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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