INVESTIGATING GLOBAL TOURISM. What you need to know

Transcription

1 INVESTIGATING GLOBAL TOURISM Key Question: How has the global tourist industry grown? Tourism has become an increasingly varied and global industry. The changing pattern of tourist destinations around the world. Where do people go on holiday and how has this changed over time? (page and ) Explore how different places and environments provide opportunities for tourist activities. What can you do as a tourist in various countries around the world? (page and ) The development of mass commercial tourism and specialist tourism. Explore the development of package holiday and short break destinations and the growth of long haul locations. Why did large numbers of people start to visit places such as Benidorm? Why have specialist types of holiday fairtrade holidays/event holidays (e.g. the London 2012 Olympics)/wilderness holidays (e.g. Antarctica) become popular? Why did the package holiday (flight/accommodation/transfers all included) become popular to places such as Spain (a 2 hour flight) Why have places such as Jamaica (4+ hour flight) grown in popularity? (Page and ) Explore a range of social and economic factors including greater wealth, mobility and leisure time and changes in lifestyles. How have changes to people s lives and finances led to increased tourism? E.g. more disposable income (spare money left over after bills are paid), improvements/changes to air & road travel (budget airlines, bigger and better equipped aeroplanes, construction of the Channel Tunnel, motorway improvements, increased car ownership), flexible working hours, early retirement, student gap years,

2 There are a number of reasons for the expansion of the tourist industry. paid holiday time, access to the internet makes people more aware of the places that they can go through advertising. (Pages ) The role of technology. How have the internet and mobile phone apps changed the holiday industry? (Page 142) Use an example to investigate the growth of a global tourism company. How has the Intercontinental hotel group grown and changed over time which other hotels does it now own (Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza) and how has this helped their business (access to a bigger customer base) (Page 143) Key question: What opportunities does the growth of the tourism industry create? The tourism industry is important in many parts of the developed world. Tourism can be an important way to address the development gap. Investigate the range of economic, social, cultural and environmental benefits tourism brings to established tourist locations. Include a study of one established tourist location in a more developed country. What are the good points that tourism can bring to a rich and popular country in terms of the money/wealth of the area, the people that live there, the customs and traditions of the area and the local landscape. UK, France and USA case studies. (Pages ) Understand that countries vary in their levels of development. Understand that some countries are rich (developed/medcs) and some countries are poor (developing/ledcs) (page ) Use a range of economic and social indicators of development and evaluate the effectiveness of different indicators including GNI, Life Expectancy and the HDI. How can money/wealth and people s lifestyles show how rich/poor a country is? What are the good/bad points about using Gross National Income (GNI) to show

3 how rich/poor a country is? What are the good/bad points about using the Human Development Index (HDI) and Life Expectancy (how long a person can expect to live for) to show how rich/poor a country is? (pages ) Investigate tourism as a way of reducing the development gap including the possible economic, social, cultural and environmental benefits in a developing long haul location. How can tourism reduce the gap in wealth between the rich countries and the poor countries? How can tourism have a good impact on the wealth, people, customs & traditions and landscape of a far-away destination? Thailand case study (pages ) Key Question: How does tourism create challenges and conflicts? Tourism can create challenges for people, communities and the environment. Explore a range of social, cultural and environmental challenges caused by the development of tourism, including the study of two places at different stages of economic development. Understand how tourism can make problems for people and the environment in a poor country and a rich country. Las Vegas, USA and Thailand (pages ) The impacts of the decline of tourism in one named location. The problems for a place when tourism drops. Kenya ( pages ) Disadvantages of tourism as a way of closing the development gap, including economic challenges in a developing longhaul location. The problems with poor countries using tourism to make money and peoples improve quality of life. Thailand or Kenya (pages ) Explore how different tourist activities can conflict with each other and local communities.

4 Tourism can create environmental challenges on a global scale. Understand how tourists can cause problems for local people and how different groups of tourists can disagree with each other. The Lake District (page ) An investigation of the conflicts in one tourist honeypot. Know the problems caused by tourists in a place that attracts very large numbers of tourists. Windermere, The Lake District (pages ) Impacts on the global environment through increased international travel. Understand how more holidays abroad and air travel are damaging the environment. This is the only time you should be talking about global warming! Machu Picchu, Peru and Yosemite, USA (pages ) Key Question: How can the tourism industry promote sustainable development? Planning and management can help ensure that tourism is more sustainable. Use an example to show how ecotourism helps to manage the impacts of tourism in a sustainable way. Understand how tourism at the Lapa Rios resort in Costa Rica and/or Kapawi Lodge in Ecuador tries to cause as little damage to the natural environment and local people as possible. (Pages ) Use an example of a tourist honeypot to: Describe how management and planning methods are being used to reduce conflict. Describe how problems caused by tourism are being managed in Windermere in The Lake District. (Pages ) Investigate the effectiveness of one management strategy. Investigate how the Great Barrier Reef is being managed and protected. (Pages )

5