Tourism topic:In this topic you should learn:

1.Why tourism is one of the greatest global growth industries?

2.Why do tourist areas need management for continued success?

3.Why are tourists seeking out ever more remote places to visit?

4.Is ecotourism the way to a more sustainable future for tourism?

• "The beach was too sandy."

• "Topless sunbathing on the beach should be banned. The holiday was ruined as my husband spent all day looking at other women."

"There are too many Spanish people. The receptionist speaks Spanish. The food is Spanish. Too many foreigners."

"We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as yellow but it was white."

Lesson 1:Why has global tourism

grown?

In your opinion what is tourism?

Write a sentence to describe in your own

words what you understand by the term

tourism.

Copy out the following paragraph...

Tourism involves activities that require travel away from home and staying away from home for a least one night. This

not only includes people going on holiday, but also people taking business trips and/or visiting friends or relatives. Most people, however, would also include day visits from home to the coast or a National Park under the heading of tourism.

Now watch the following video,

‘An introduction to Tourism’.

What was this films main messages about tourism?

A great growth industry?Tourism is seen as one of the worlds great growth industry as it has continued to grow since the 1950s. It was worth $500 billion in

2007.

Today in the world there are more than 900 million tourists, and still rising!Even events like terrorism and economic downturns (like the recession) have not led to a huge decline in tourism.

Write down in your books 10 things that are important to you when you

go on holiday?

Here are some of the things that are important to me on a

holiday...

Learning about the history of a

place

Feeling the spirit of a place

Sightseeing

Lying on a tropical beach!

Activity 1 – 15 minutes.Using the following figures draw a line graph

To represent the growth of tourism since 1950- 2007.

Year Tourist (in millions)

1950 20 million1960 90 million1970 200 million1980 300 million1990 550 million2000 800 million 2007 900 million

Next:

• Describe what the graph shows – interpret it! Patterns? / Trends? / Figures?......

• Think back to your controlled assessment skills!!

Why do you think tourism has been able to grow so big?

Think of three reasons why you think tourism has grown in the last 50-60

years.

Activity 2 – 10 minutes.

Complete the mindmap and add notes to it.

Ensure you answer the following question with each:

‘How has this been a reason for the increase in global tourism?’

So, what are the reasons?

The reasons why tourism has grown in the last 50

years.

Social and

Economic

reasons

Improvements in technology

Expansion of holiday choice

Here is an example of where a company can fly

to...http://www.britishairways.com/travel/routemapsflash/public/en_gb

Word jumble.Try to un-jumble the following words.

They are words that you will have come

across / come across next lesson.....

• Utsitor• Llbaog• Uutrecl• Epalneroa• iiulmtplre

Answers.

• Tourist• Global• Culture• Aeroplane• multiplier