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Definition Term
An imaginary line drawn around the Equator

middle of the Earth an equal distance
from the North Pole and the South
Pole
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Term Definition
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) The southern tropic (23.5⁰ S)
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The time zone at 0 longitude
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Definition Term
Individuals and groups of people who Climate

travel to visit and experience things
like heritage, religion, art and customs
to develop knowledge of a different
community's way of life and tradition.
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What is Cultural tourism?
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Term Definition
Tropic of Capricorn The time zone at 0 longitude
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The southern tropic (23.5⁰ S)
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Definition Term
Visitor numbers rising rapidly with an Stage 3 - Development stage

increase in both foreign and locally
owned facilities and the expansion and
upgrading of the local infrastructure
True False
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Definition Term
1. Weather and climate name the factors that strongly

2. Scenery and landscape influence the popularity of a
3. Vegetation and wildlife destination

4. Historical/cultural attractions
5. Indoor/outdoor activities
6. accommodation options
7. Events and festivals
8. Food and drink
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Name some features which attract tourists to a destination?
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Term Definition
How does climate influence tourism? Tourists like to travel when the
destination has the best climatic
conditions and this will be the
high/peak season
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Definition Term
Tourism that is economically, socio- What is Sustainable tourism?

culturally and environmentally
sustainable. With sustainable tourism,
socio-cultural and environmental
impacts are neither permanent nor
irreversible.
True False
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Definition Term
The position north or south of the Longitude

equator measured from 0° to 90°
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Latitude
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Term Definition
What is a backpacker? The place where a journey finally ends.

A physical space in which visitors
spend at least one night and is made

up of tourism products such as support
services and attractions.
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A visitor, for the purpose of a holiday or special event, who stays in a

backpackers' lodge/hostel. Usually around 18-24 years of age, no
children. Consider themselves travelers not tourists. Generally well
educated but very cost conscious
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Term Definition
What are the sources of climate 1. Marketing brochures

information about a destination? 2. Lonely planet books
3. Travel guides
4. Climate graphs available online
True False
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Term Definition
Name the ways destinations can 1. Attractions

segment their markets? 2. Accessibility
3. Available packages
4. Activities
5. Ancilliary services
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1. Backpackers
2. DINKY
3. Empty Nesters
4. Grey Market or Boomers
5. Youth Market
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Term Definition
Tropic of Cancer The southern tropic (23.5⁰ S)
True False
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The northern tropic (23.5⁰ N)
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Term
What are Empty Nesters?
The general weather conditions usually A cycle of evolution that each destination
found in a particular place. will go through
Parents whose children have left the

Members of the baby boom generation in
family home. Between 45 and 55 years
the 1950s now retired and have disposable
of age generally, usually quite well
income from their pensions and savings
educated. High disposable income
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Definition
A key factor in the holiday destination decision-making process. This can happen
through movies, TV, past holidays, friends, mass media, brochures and other ways
of becoming knowledgeable about a destination
Climate Stage 6 -decline stage
Destination awareness Destination outlook scale
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Term
What is medical tourism?
Dual Income No Kids Yet (Younger couples between 25-35 years of age, having no children
means they are relatively well off)
When people travel to a destination to have a planned medical procedure eg: breast
augmentation in Thailand
When people travel to a destination for thrilling activities like zip-lining or absailing eg: Sun City
The place where a journey finally ends.

A physical space in which visitors spend at least one night and is made up of tourism products
such as support services and attractions.
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Term
How do destination managers achieve sustainable tourism?
1. Mountain tourism- abseiling, hiking, skiing

2. Coastal tourism - diving, beach and water sports
3. Waterfall tourism -white water rafting
4. Cave tourism - black-water rafting
5. Volcano tourism
6. Island tourism
1. Equatorial - very hot and humid

2. Tropical - hurricanes, cyclones
3. Tropical Monsoon -monsoon rains and winds
4. Tropical Desert - very dry with bush fires
1. Weather and climate

2. Scenery and landscape
3. Vegetation and wildlife
8. Food and drink
1. Welcome, involve and satisfy visitors

2. Achieve a profitable and prosperous industry
3. Involve and benefit all host communities
4. Protect and enhance the local environment
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Term
What kind of things does cultural tourism include?
1. Performing arts festivals.

2. Historic sites and monuments
3. Museums
4. Arts and crafts displays
5. Religious events
6. an unusual experience of local customs and cuisines eg: The Boma in Vic Falls
1. Weather and climate

2. Scenery and landscape
3. Vegetation and wildlife
8. Food and drink
1. A character of their own

2. Accessible location
3. Will have a TIC
4. Will have accommodation and catering
5. Will have a range of attractions
6. Will have shopping facilities for the visitor
7. will have enough parking space
1. Equatorial - Brazil Amazon

2. Tropical - African savannah
3. Tropical Monsoon - India
4. Tropical Desert - Sahara
5. Warm temperate - mediterranean
6. Cool temperate - USA and Canada
7. Arctic - Scandanavia
8. Polar - Greenland
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Term
Climate
A cycle of evolution that each destination

The northern tropic (23.5⁰ N)
will go through
Parents whose children have left the family

home. Between 45 and 55 years of age The general weather conditions
generally, usually quite well educated. High usually found in a particular place.
disposable income
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Term
What are the factors that influence a persons choice of final destination?

3. Will have a TIC

1. Their disposable income

2. The number of children they have
3. number of trips taken last year
4. amount of free time they have
5. their age and health
6. the cost of transport to get there
7. personal preferences
8. what they've done in the past
9. what friends and family recommend
10. what advertising and promotion they see
11. the purpose of their visit e.g.: VFR, sport, medical etc
12. Their own cultural appraisal
1. Seaside areas face rising sea levels, sea surges, sea storms, beach erosion etc.
2. Mountain regions - shorter winter season so less snow for skiing
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Term
What are the natural hazards that tourists need to be aware of in different
climates?

5. Volcano tourism
6. Island tourism

1. Equatorial - Brazil Amazon

2. Tropical - African savannah
3. Tropical Monsoon - India
4. Tropical Desert - Sahara
5. Warm temperate - mediterranean
6. Cool temperate - USA and Canada
7. Arctic - Scandanavia
8. Polar - Greenland
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Term
What does a perishable destination mean?
Tourists like to travel when the destination the destination can be altered through
has the best climatic conditions and this will overuse, when the carrying capacity
be the high/peak season of the destination is crossed.
Dual Income No Kids Yet (Younger couples An individual's choice of destination is

between 25-35 years of age, having no strongly influenced by the values and
children means they are relatively well off) attitudes that they are exposed to.
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Term
What are the Grey market/boomers?
Members of the baby boom generation in the 1950s now retired and have disposable
income from their pensions and savings
Between 18 and 25 years of age, less well educated, lower disposable income, are used to
travelling and like to 'party' in destinations with a varied nightlife.

3. Will have a TIC
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Definition
This is a rating given to a destination based on a number of characteristics such as

aesthetic appeal (how nice does it look), social/cultural integrity (how close is it to
how it should be) and other markers. The scale has 6 levels ranging from
catastrophic (outlook very bad) to 10 (enhanced)
Stage 6 -decline Stage Climate
Destination Outlook Scale Destination Awareness
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Definition
An imaginary line on the surface of the Earth opposite the Prime Meridian or
Greenwich Meridian where the date changes as one travels east or west across it.
Roughly around 180 ̊ it mostly corresponds to the time zone boundary separating
-12 and +12 hours GMT
Daylight Saving Time (dst) Greenwich Mean Time (gmt)
Tropic of capricorn International Date Line (IDL)
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Definition
Further increases in the number of tourists, with mass tourism being the largest
component. The addition of facilities reaches a peak as carrying capacity limit is
approached
Stage 2 - Involvement stage Stage 5 - Stagnation stage
Stage 3 - Development stage Stage 4 - Consolidation stage
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Term
What are the types of physical features that have helped develop sport and
adventure tourism?


3. Will have a TIC

5. Volcano tourism
6. Island tourism
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Small numbers of tourists, mainly independent travellers, with some local facilities being developed
Stage 2 - Involvement stage
Very small tourist numbers and few, if any, tourist facilities
Stage 1 - Exploration stage
When people travel to a destination for thrilling activities like zip-lining or absailing eg: Sun City
What is adventure tourism?
This is when countries change the clock during certain months of the year. In Western Europe there is
GMT during the winter months but the clock is set forward 1 hour during the summer months (GMT + 1)
Daylight Saving Time (DST)
Tourist numbers rise again due to new innovations and rebranding of the destination's image
Stage 6 - Rejuvenation stage
Between 18 and 25 years of age, less well educated, lower disposable income, are used to travelling
and like to 'party' in destinations with a varied nightlife.
What is the Youth market?
Tourist numbers reach peak and facilities show signs of age
Stage 5 - Stagnation stage
An individual's choice of destination is strongly influenced by the values and attitudes that they are
exposed to.
What is meant by cultural appraisal?
The time zone that runs through Greenwich at 0 longitude
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Dual Income No Kids Yet (Younger couples between 25-35 years of age, having no children means
they are relatively well off)
What does DINKY stand for?
In most destinations the facilities available to tourists are also available to the local population.
Multi use (mixed use) destination
The place where a journey finally ends.

A physical space in which visitors spend at least one night and is made up of tourism products such as
support services and attractions.
what is a destination?
Airline hubs or hub airports are used by one or more airlines to concentrate passenger traffic and
flight operations at a given airport. They serve as transfer (or stop-over) points to get passengers to
their final destination.
What is a hub airport?
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Term
what are the products included in a destination that make it an amalgam?
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1. Attractions 2. Accessibility 3. Available packages 4. Activities 5. Ancilliary services
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Term
name the factors that strongly influence the popularity of a destination
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1. Cost of accommodation and transport 2. The costs at the destination 3. Over-

commercialisation 4. Crime and social promblems 5. Political stability and civil unrest 6.
Terrorism 7. Positive or negative media coverage 8. Increased accessibility 9. Natural
disasters
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Term
How are time zones divided?
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The world is divided into 24 time zones each spaced 15 degrees of longitude apart
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Term
Stage 6 -Decline stage
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Mass tourism keeps coming to the destination and the destination will lose market share
and become a very cheap, often party, destination
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Definition

3. Will have a TIC
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What are the features of a destination?
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Term
Longitude
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The distance of a place east or west of an imaginary line from the top to the bottom of the
Earth, measured in degrees
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Term
Name some of the different types of tourism.
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1. Cultural tourism 2. Business tourism 3. Sustainable tourism 4. Medical tourism 5. Sports

tourism
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Term
What are the world's major climatic zones?
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1. Equatorial - Brazil Amazon 2. Tropical - African savannah 3. Tropical Monsoon - India 4.

Tropical Desert - Sahara 5. Warm temperate - mediterranean 6. Cool temperate - USA and
Canada 7. Arctic - Scandanavia 8. Polar - Greenland
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Term
What is the product life cycle of a destination?
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A cycle of evolution that each destination will go through
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Term
What are the effects of global warming and climate change on tourism?
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1. Seaside areas face rising sea levels, sea surges, sea storms, beach erosion etc. 2.
Mountain regions - shorter winter season so less snow for skiing
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Definition
1. The carrying capacity was exceeded

2. the Enviro has been damaged
3. the destination is not longer in fashion
4. Surrounding businesses have closed down
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Reasons why a destination that used to be popular can now decline
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Term
what is meant when they say that tourist destinations are amalgams?
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at any destination there will be a series of inter-relationships btw different sub-sectors that
contribute to the overall tourist experience. There will be many tourism products on offer.
e.g.: transport, accommodation, food, tours, entertainment and local products.
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How can you extend a tourist season?
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1. Mountain tourism can have hiking in summer and skiiing in Winter 2. Coastal tourism can
have diving and water sports in summer and indoor activities in winter

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9/21/23, 2:14 PM Test: IGCSE Travel and Tourism Unit 2 | Quizlet

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An imaginary line drawn around the Equator

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Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) The southern tropic (23.5⁰ S)

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The time zone at 0 longitude

Individuals and groups of people who Climate

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What is Cultural tourism?

Tropic of Capricorn The time zone at 0 longitude

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The southern tropic (23.5⁰ S)

Visitor numbers rising rapidly with an Stage 3 - Development stage

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1. Weather and climate name the factors that strongly

3. Vegetation and wildlife destination

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Name some features which attract tourists to a destination?

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Tourism that is economically, socio- What is Sustainable tourism?

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The position north or south of the Longitude

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What is a backpacker? The place where a journey finally ends.

spend at least one night and is made

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A visitor, for the purpose of a holiday or special event, who stays in a

What are the sources of climate 1. Marketing brochures

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Name the ways destinations can 1. Attractions

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Tropic of Cancer The southern tropic (23.5⁰ S)

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The northern tropic (23.5⁰ N)

What are Empty Nesters?

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Parents whose children have left the

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Climate Stage 6 -decline stage

Destination awareness Destination outlook scale

What is medical tourism?

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The place where a journey finally ends.

How do destination managers achieve sustainable tourism?

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1. Mountain tourism- abseiling, hiking, skiing

1. Equatorial - very hot and humid

1. Weather and climate

1. Welcome, involve and satisfy visitors

What kind of things does cultural tourism include?

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1. Performing arts festivals.

1. Weather and climate

1. A character of their own

1. Equatorial - Brazil Amazon

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