THE THREE ECONOMIC

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Eko Stahl Ag steel company, Germany

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These three images represent tourism in different ways. Tourism is one of the main activities within the tertiary sector in Europe. Tourism is the business of providing services like accommodation or entertainment to the tourist and it must be more than 24 hours and less than a year.

The first image represents cultural tourism, a tour guide is showing the old town around and by this moment she has stopped at an old church with an interest background, her group is listening to the explanation carefully and looking at the monument. However, we have more options like sun and sand tourism, which is completely the opposite. Spanish coastal line is quite famous so tourists can enjoy beautiful beaches with plenty of services like restaurants, shops and hotels. The last picture depicts a girl sailing on a boat and admiring the breathtaking view of the landscape, surrounded of trees, rivers and birds.

Visiting places like an old town, the coast or simply nature, can help people to forget for a while the stressful cities which involve noise and pollution.

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These images represents the impact construction has on the environment. Construction is one of the biggest activities within the secondary sector. In the first picture there are no settlements, while in the second picture the image of this piece of land shows that is has been dramatically modified with the construction of buildings and infrastructures to satisfy people’s need.

These buildings have been constructed using steel and concrete, which are the materials used nowadays. By building all this they have implement the number of tourists as well, who provide money to the town. This urban place has been built up due to the population growth, and it is continuing growing indeed.

To sum up, human impact over this land is huge as they have modified the landscape according to the human needs but affecting the biodiversity of the place.

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This image represents agriculture, an economic activity that belongs to the primary sector. Agriculture is one of the most important economic activities because we obtain a wide variety of products directly from the land, and plenty of raw materials that will be transform in the food and textile industry.

This area may belong to a developing country from the Indochinese peninsula. Farmers are collecting rice, from the wet lands that have been flood in the Monsoon period when it rains heavily. Rice is the basic product of the Asian diet because it is easy to plant, they can plant it twice and it does not damage the soil so much, making possible a constant use of the land. Therefore, we can classify it as a type of monoculture.

In this moment now they are collecting the harvest with rudimentary and manual techniques. By the extension of land and technique, the product can be sold in local markets or bought by nearby factories with the aim of exporting the product.