Learning Objectives
1. Leisure
• discuss the strategies designed to manage tourist demands, maximize capacity and minimize conflicts between local residents and visitors and avoid environmental damage.
- Discuss the difficulties in attempting to define leisure, recreation, tourism and sport.
- Discuss the influence of accessibility, changes in technology and affluence upon the growth of these activities.
- Explain the long and short-term trends and patterns in international tourism.
- Examine the changes in location and development of different tourist activities. Explain the growth of more remote tourist destinations.
- Analyse the social, cultural, economic and political factors affecting participation and success in two major international sports.
- Analyse the geographic factors that influenced the choice of venue(s).
- Examine the factors affecting the sphere of influence for participants and supporters.
- Evaluate the short and long-term geographic costs and benefits of hosting such an event at both the local and national level.
- Examine the economic, social and environmental impacts of tourism.
- Evaluate the strategies designed to manage and sustain the tourist industry.
- Assess the importance of tourism as a development strategy for low-income countries.
- Explain the hierarchy of a league and the location of its teams. Examine the relationship between team location and the residence of its supporters.
- For one named city or large town:
• discuss the strategies designed to manage tourist demands, maximize capacity and minimize conflicts between local residents and visitors and avoid environmental damage.
- Examine the concept of carrying capacities in a rural tourist area.
- Discuss strategies designed to maximize capacity and minimize conflicts between local residents and visitors and avoid environmental damage
- Explain the relationship between urban settlements and recreational and sports facilities in terms of frequency, size, range and catchment area.
- Examine the distribution and location of recreational and sports facilities in urban areas and relate the patterns to accessibility, land value and the physical and socio-economic characteristics of each urban zone (from the CBD to the rural–urban fringe).
- Discuss the role of sport and recreation in regeneration strategies of urban areas.
- Define sustainable tourism.
- Examine the extent to which it may be successfully implemented in different environments.
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Impacts of Tourism - case studies
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Tourism as a tool for development
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International Scale
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Further Reading
- Football migration: 113 years of soccer player transfers on one map.
- Tourism Concern - News from Tourism Concern
- BBC News - 'The lungs of Almaty'
- MLB Fan Map Geographic Realignment - Imgur
- BBC News - In pictures: The life of the Huaorani in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest
- Creepy Images From An Abandoned Bible Theme Park
- An Optimist in Haiti | FRONTLINE | PBS
- The Elusive Economic Lift of the Olympics - NYTimes.com
- Alvin Ailey's 'The Backstory': Dance Company Tackles Human Trafficking In New Production (VIDEO)
- Golf course reclaim "lost" land
- Four Major Sports Leagues Have Very Different Ideas On Geography - Business Insider
- BBC News - Fast Track - Is slum tourism ethical?
- BBC - Travel - Is Barcelona being spoilt by tourists? : Barcelona
- Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park - No Ordinary Park
- Chinese to become biggest spenders as record numbers head overseas | World news | The Guardian
- Charity condemns tourists' use of fresh water in developing countries | Global development | guardian.co.uk
- BBC News - Toronto counts costs of hosting Pan Am Games in 2015
- The destinations under threat from tourism - in pictures | Environment | guardian.co.uk
- Tourism Concern - KS3/4 Geography resources: Water for Everyone
- BBC News - Barcelona uses new media to sell its brand to fans