HTMT 210 Final Exam Study Cards
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- Cultural Impacts of Tourism
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jobs: new and lost opportunities
language
traditions
food
handicrafts
religion
dress
time
male/female relationships
conflicts b/t generations - Sacred time
- Communal time not on a watch
- profain time
- time on a watch, measured time
- Acculteration
- sharing and accepting e/o cultures asnd values
- demonstration effect
- when locals want to look and act like tourists
- commodification
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when a culture/society is reduced to a generic product
ex. indian headress - psuedo-event
- cultural events reprodced for the tourists with out regard to original intent
- carrying capacity
- destinations ability to absorb tourism with out deterioration
- saturation point
- point at which carrying capaity has been met
- physical carrying capacity
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finite capacity
ex. parking spaces at the beach - evvironmental carrying capacity
- when experience of the visitor deteriorates
- ecological carrying capacity
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when damage to nature is unacceptable
ex. drinking water cotamination - social carrying capacity
- when visitors numbers become a burden on the locals
- What are the most popular three cruise destinations?
- Caribbean, European, and Alaskan
- What are the three major companies in the Cruise industry?
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Carnival (costa, cunard, hollan america, windstar and yachts of seabourne)
Royal Caribbean (celebrity and princess)
NCL (star and orient) - What are the five principals of ecotourism?
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1. tourism should bond with thoe local culture and environment
2. tourists should focus on the hosts community
3.ecotourism should be local ownership
4. should use local materials
5. use ecotechniques - What are three core elements of ecotourism?
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1. attraction of the natural environment
2. emphasis on learning
3. high desire for sustainability on the people of the region and the natural surrounding - Hardcore ecotourism event
- rugged uncomfortable
- Softcore ecotourism event
- short duration trips with an eco theme
- Negative Cultural Impacts of Tourism
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loss of self-sustaining economy
outside ownership of facilities
impact on real estate
overcrowding
social problems
loss of amenities for locals - Leisure Travel?
- Increased levels of economic activity will lead to a growth in leisure travel
- Impact of lesiure travel
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more leisure travelers will lead to developement of facilities
developed countries will stick to mass tourism - What will become the two biggest countries for inbound tourism?
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China and India
many VFR travelers will visit to see relatives left behind - Gross Registered Tonnage
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interior space avaliable to passangers
1 GRT = 100 Cubic feet - Space Ratio
- GRT/ # PAX Berths
- Passenger Crew Ratio
- # Pax Berths / # Crew
- Future of the Cruise Industry
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1. condoships and timeshares
2. bigger ships
3. budget cruises
4. private islands and clubs - Jones Act
- Inorder to have an all domestic itinerary the ship must: 1. be made in the US; 2. be owned by a US company; 3. have and all US crew
- Why the Jones Act?
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1. protect US jobs
2. ensures safety for passangers
3. environmental protections
4.national security - Eco-tourism
- sustainable, alternative and responsible tourism
- Mass Tourism
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seeks rest and relaxation
involves large #'s
visitors consume resources
dictates the community - One of the biggest changes that will occur in the 21st century...
- will be the increasing number of the mature travel segment
- diffusion
- tourist and locals interact and borrow from each other
- toleration
- live and let live with out interaction
- segregation
- dont make contact: maintain distance
- rejection
- make tourists unwelcome
- Bruntland Report definition of Ecotourism
- meeting the needs of present tourist and host region, while protecting and enhancing opportunity for the future
- Doxey's Irritaion Index: cultural irritation
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1. euphoria
2. apathy
3. annoyance
4. antagonism
5. final level: segregation and elimentation - Variables impacting irritation
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negative correlation: land mass
positive: culutral and socioeconomic disparity
positive: level of dependency on tourism
negative: % of population benefiting - Future Trends of Tourism
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video conferencing
mass customization
extreme tourism - Ecotourism: does it work?
- In order for eco-tourism to make and impact everyone must participate but if all the people do it it cannot work
- Plog's Continuum
- psychocentric - Near psych - midcentric- near allocentric- allocentric
- psychocentric
- want familiarity rather than anxious and willing to relinquish control
- allocentric
- adventurous; self-confident; want to be incontrol
- Theory of allocentricity and psychocentricity
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1. territory boundness
2. generalized anxieties
3. sense of powerlessness