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Global dimensions of Tourism

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    this game covers the knowledge contents from week 1 to 5.
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  • Money spent by a tourist circulates through a country's economy.This is known as the ............. .............?
    The multiplier effect
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  • This tourism model consists of 6 stages, which visually depicted the changes that occur in destination demand over time
    Butler’s (1980) Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC)
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  • "maximum use any site without causing negative effects on the resources, reducing visitor satisfactions, or exerting adverse impacts upon the society, economy or culture of an area’
    CARRYING CAPACITY
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  • Richardson and Flucker (2004) identify five sub-types of carrying capacity, give two sub-types?
    Physical;Economic;Perceptual;Social;Ecological
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  • When a destination exceeds its carrying capacity limit, the term used here is ?
    Overtourism
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  • Doxey (1975) developed an ‘Irritation Index’ model of the relationship between the growth of tourism and community stress, provide 2 levels of irritation proposed in Doxey's model?
    Euphoria, Apathy, Annoyance, Antagonsim
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  • ................is when revenue is lost from tourism to other countries' economies.
    Economic/Tourism leakage
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  • Provide 3 reasons for tourism leakage ?
    Cost of imported goods, especially food and drink etc.
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  • A study of tourism 'leakage' in Thailand estimated that ..........% of all money spent by tourists ended up leaving Thailand (via foreign-owned tour operators, airlines, hotels, imported drinks and food, etc.). A) 65% B) 70% C) 80%
    70%
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  • Why has tourism proved so difficult to define and measure on the supply side ? Give 3 examples?
    very unstable demand, risky investment prospect from a financier’s point, slow to innovate
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  • The TSA allows tourism to be compared with other industries and allows economists (and academics and students) the opportunity to compare tourism sectors between different countries. The TSA measures:
    The TSA measures:
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  • The travel account of the balance of payments is based upon direct spending by international tourists. The categories of spending are normally (Give 3 examples)
    The categories of spending are normally:
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  • The economic costs of tourism fall into three categories, give one example/category?
    Opportunity costs; Overdependence / lack of diversity; Inflation
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  • The impacts of tourism are varied and have many social consequences for a destination including (Give 3 examples)
    Social structure; Relocation; Politics; Morals; Language; Lifestyle
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  • The Middle East was the fastest-growing region in both arrivals and receipts, list 3 top destination in middle east in terms of International tourist arrivals?
    1- Saudi Arabia, 2- United Arab Emirates, 3- Iran
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  • When the two groups meet there are contrasts of behavior and expectations which trigger long term changes and consequences in both societies.
    The encounter or ‘contact’ between tourist and host
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