Changing patterns of leisure and tourism Definitions: Leisure: your free time and the non-work activities at home or close to home that you might use it for; Tourism: when you travel to visit and experience a location further away from home (can be in your home country or abroad, a day trip or a year travelling). Leisure activities can be classified as either passive (these involve you remaining calm and still) or active (more energetic activities that involve you moving or being physically active. Tourism can be: short term (eg a day trip or weekend to the beach) long term (eg a three week tour of Europe) National (within your country of residence) International (visiting a foreign country).

How have leisure and tourism changed through time How have leisure and tourism changed through time? Imagine you are a teacher living in the following situations. For each, write as many points that you can think of (back of your books), outlining what you might do in your leisure time and how you might spend your holiday time (tourism)….. 1 2 1. English village 1750 2. English city 1895 3. England 1974 4. England 2014 4 3

What has changed and why? 1 What has changed and why? 2 1. English village 1750 2. English city 1895 3. England 1974 4. England 2014 3 4

What has changed? Transport networks: extent? speed? cost? Amount of free time? Amount of money people have? How adventurous people are? Levels of knowledge about destinations? Ability to research, plan and book trips?

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