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  • Tourism - Global economic activity
    • Nature
    • Spatial Patterns
    • Future Directions >
      • Research Task - Future Directions
    • Factors Affecting Tourism >
      • Biophysical
      • Ecological
      • Economic
      • Socio-cultural
      • Organisational
      • Technological
      • Political
    • Impacts of Tourism >
      • Social Impacts
      • Economic Impacts
      • Environmental Impacts
      • Ecotourism
      • Impacts - Venice
  • Local Case Study - Great White Bear Tours
    • Nature of economic enterprise
    • Locational factors
    • Ecological dimensions
    • Linkages
    • Effects of global changes
    • Maps and photographs
    • Vocations
    • Fieldwork: Hudson Bay
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Nature

The tourism industry is a collection of diverse service industries, supplying the services demanded by the consumers (the tourists). Included in the industry are: travel agents, banking services, insurance services, luggage suppliers,  taxi/bus/car hire, tour guides, accommodation, shops, laundry/dry cleaning.

Tourism is “travel away from your normal place of work and residence, including travel undertaken for business and pleasure”

Tourism is “the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business or other purposes.

Types of Tourism:
  • Group/Package tours
  • Adventure Tourism
  • Medical Tourism
  • Sports Tourism
  • Agricultural
  • Educational Tourism
  • Ecotourism
  • Sex Tourism
  • Cultural Tourism
  • Extreme Sports
  • Religious Tourism
  • Dark Tourism
Tourism market trends UNWTO
Tourism development
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Photos of dark tourism sites from around the world
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Countries by number of ski resorts.
L. Swanson
  • Home
    • Tourism research lesson
    • Essay activity
    • Practice questions
    • Assessment
  • Tourism - Global economic activity
    • Nature
    • Spatial Patterns
    • Future Directions >
      • Research Task - Future Directions
    • Factors Affecting Tourism >
      • Biophysical
      • Ecological
      • Economic
      • Socio-cultural
      • Organisational
      • Technological
      • Political
    • Impacts of Tourism >
      • Social Impacts
      • Economic Impacts
      • Environmental Impacts
      • Ecotourism
      • Impacts - Venice
  • Local Case Study - Great White Bear Tours
    • Nature of economic enterprise
    • Locational factors
    • Ecological dimensions
    • Linkages
    • Effects of global changes
    • Maps and photographs
    • Vocations
    • Fieldwork: Hudson Bay
  • HSIETeachers Home