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Unit 1, Lesson 2, Exercise B 1.1 Part 1
Today we’re going to talk about tourism. We’ll look at why you study tourism. We’ll also study the core theory of tourism, the basic theory, developed by researchers such as Leiper and Tribe. If we have time, we’ll go into interdisciplinary studies that link tourism to other fields of study.
First of all, why do you study tourism? Probably, most of you will be studying tourism because you realize it’s required to get a degree. Possibly, you feel it may be useful for a future career, or perhaps you’re simply motivated because you’ve decided it’s an interesting area of study. Tourism is certainly having a very great impact on our world.
This is something that Professor John Tribe recognizes when he writes that tourism is the world’s biggest industry and it attracts undergraduates in ever-increasing numbers. He raises the very interesting point that because tourism has a large impact on the world, tourism courses need to show students what this impact is.
Unit 1, Lesson 2, Exercise C 1.2 Part 2
I’ll just summarize for you this one paragraph from an article by Tribe – The Philosophic Practitioner. He says that the purpose of a course in tourism is to enable graduates to operate in their career. However, if we just focused on that alone, this would overlook an important feature of a big industry like tourism. Yes, it generates consumer satisfaction, employment and wealth; but tourism also leaves its imprint on the world in other ways. It creates an industrial landscape and causes changes to the social and economic relationships between people. When we develop tourism we create what you could call a tourism society. This society is made up not just of tourism-associated businesses, but of all individuals, communities, governments and the physical environments affected by tourism. So a special responsibility is placed on education to make people aware of the important role tourism plays.
Unit 1, Lesson 2, Exercise D 1.3
Part 3 Let’s move on. What does ‘tourism’ mean? In a theory of tourism put forward by Professor Leiper in his book Tourism Management, it is defined as ‘travelling away temporarily on overnight trips and visiting places for leisure-related purposes’. Leiper explains that there are a number of essential aspects to this definition, which I’ll run through very briefly today.
To begin with, tourism involves travelling away from home and expecting to return to your usual residence. The second point is that you must spend at least one night away: it is, after all, a time when you’re away from home. Thirdly, tourism involves a TGR, and fourthly a TDR. In other words, there is a place which the tourist comes from – the TGR or tourism generating region, and a destination – a place which the tourist goes to – the TDR, or tourism destination region. So if you live in London, then London is your TGR; if you live in Tokyo, then that is your TGR. That is where you would normally buy the resources that you require: you will buy your ticket there, you will buy your rucksack there; you will buy extra clothes; you will possibly even book hotels through an accommodation booking agency which, of course, gets paid for that service.
All right, the fourth point is that you would be visiting at least one, and possibly many more, tourist destinations. You might be taking just a single trip to one particular place; you might decide to go to Dubai and spend a week there; you might be doing a world tour, visiting many different places over a longer period of time. These are the destination regions, the TDRs.
A fifth and very crucial aspect of tourism is that, along the way, you will be travelling via a transit route – by plane, boat, train or any other mode of transport. This transit route may be the same for the way over as for the way back, or it may be different. And, as a tourist, you have an impact on the transit route – planes pollute the environment of countries they fly over, for instance; cars make noise; trains draw energy from valuable resources, etc.
So, in summary, you travel from home, for at least one night, prepare for your trip in your home area, travel to the tourist destination and use a route to get there, before you return home.
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