1. Worldwide Destinations The Geography of Travel and Tourism

2. Learning Objectives
1.      Define and use the terms leisure, recreation, and tourism and understand their interrelation-ships.
2.   Distinguish between the different forms of tourism - and the relationship of different types of tourist with the environment.
3.      Appreciate the importance of scale in explaining patterns of tourism.
4.     Identify the three major geographical components of tourism - tourist- generating areas, tourist-receiving areas, and transit routes.
5.      Explain the push and pull factors that give rise to tourist flows.
6.    Appreciate the main methods used to measure tourist flows and be aware of their shortcomings.

3. Worldwide Destinations
Definitions and Terms
Definition of Tourism
Spatial Scale
Components of the Tourism System
Spatial Interaction
Classifications and Forms of Tourism

4. Definitions and Terms Definitions and Terms Definitions of Tourism
Leisure
Recreation
Tourism
Time, attitude and choice
Activity during leisure time
Recreation or business activities of persons staying away from home for one night or more
Definitions of Tourism
Demand side or supply side (TSA)
Purpose of visit
Usual environment
Types of traveller

5. Figure 1.1

6. “The activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure business and other purposes.”
United Nations Statistical
Commission definition of tourism

7. Spatial Scale Spatial expression of tourism as an activity
A way of thinking
World to personal scale
Macro to micro
Provides different perpectives

8. Components of the Tourism System
Tourist generating region
Transit zone
Tourist destination region
All set within political, social economic and environmental contexts

9. Figure 1.2

10. Spatial Interaction Tourist flows – push and pull factors
Explaining interaction
distance
business links
attractiveness
Gravity model, forecasting models
Measuring flows
Tourist volume and characteristics
expenditure

11. Classifications and Forms of Tourism
By type of destination (domestic/international)
Characteristics of the tourist (Smith)
By characteristics of the tourism system (e.g. eco-tourism)
By market (purpose of visit)
By interaction with the destination (mass/alternative)
By distance (long haul/short haul)

12. Table 1.1

13. Table 1.2