Tourism Geography/ies
Gavriș
Gavri ș Alexandru
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Challenges
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Overview
alexandru.gavris@rei.ase.ro | alexandrugavrish@gmail.com
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Overview
alexandru.gavris@rei.ase.ro | alexandrugavrish@gmail.com
book for exam: no book...,
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Overview
alexandru.gavris@rei.ase.ro | alexandrugavrish@gmail.com
book for exam: no book..., but a collection of academic papers and the
slides
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Goals
* Understanding the meaning of distribution and pattern resulted
through interaction (location effects, connections with other locations,
scale effects)
* Use of geographic skills to explain tourism phenomena
* Identi cation of theories and their use in real tourism situations
* Development of spatial perspective
* Understand relations among geography, tourism, economy and their
respective interactions (use them to develop critical thinking)
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Goals
* Understanding the meaning of distribution and pattern resulted
through interaction (location effects, connections with other locations,
scale effects)
* Use of geographic skills to explain tourism phenomena
* Identi cation of theories and their use in real tourism situations
* Development of spatial perspective
* Understand relations among geography, tourism, economy and their
respective interactions (use them to develop critical thinking)
"Curriculum re ects only ’truths’ handed down from authorities
in the eld. Knowledge is rei ed, and human agency is removed
from consideration of how one ’knows’. A steady stream of
objective facts is given to students who are never encouraged to
see knowledge as a contested terrain. Teaching as well ceases to
be a creative activity but is instead a cookbook process based
upon ’scienti c’ methods". (Wood, 1984:225)
Wood, G. (1984) Schooling in a Democracy: Transformation or Reproduction. Educational Theory. 34(3):219-39.
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History of tourism
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History of tourism
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History of tourism
17-19th century -- 'the Grand Tour'
Western bias
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History of tourism
19-20th century -- 'package tour' + Thomas Cook
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History of tourism
1960+ -- national and internationalization (Europe, America)
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History of tourism
1990 -- globalization
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Events that have effected Tourism
* the French Revolution >> opening of museums and art collections
* wars
* transportation through airplanes
* collapse of communism
* 9/11 attacks
* terrorists attacks
* natural hazards
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Defining tourism
* purpose of trip
* distance travelled
* duration of trip
* residence of traveller
* mode of transportation
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Concepte
* tourists: demands, expectations, motivations, behaviours
* destination: place of experience (generating region, destination region,
intermediate transit region) >> spatial scale
* spatial interactions between the components of the tourism system
* tourism industry
* geography: production and reproduction of places
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Tourism industry
* individuals, businesses and organizations working to supply services
(including information) and products to tourists.
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Tourism industry
* individuals, businesses and organizations working to supply services
(including information) and products to tourists.
it is a collection of industries
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source: Leiper, N. (1979). The framework of tourism: Towards a de nition of tourism, tourist, and the tourist industry. Annals of tourism
research, 6(4), 390-407
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Tourism product
varies with lived experience
* travel product - is the overall trip that a tourism consumer
experiences including all rms, organizations and service moments
from the initial decision to purchase to the return home. In some
cases, such products are the result of packages put together by travel
agents
* destination product - is usually best identi ed through the marketing
and promotion campaigns of destination marketing organizations
(DMOs) which seek to commodify what the DMO identi es as being
the key experiences that a destination can provide the consumer
* tourism business product - is the set of experiences provided by an
individual rm or agency over different stages of the trip
* services product - is the individual sets of service encounters that the
tourism consumer experiences through their trip and at the
destination
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Tourists
Williamson and Lew (2015), p. 7, A generalized tourist typology based on time and distance
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Tourists and Tourism
Williamson and Lew (2015), p. 17, Tourists and tourims: a typological framework
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Future
Coles TE, Hall CM, Duval DT (2016). Tourism and post-disciplinarity: back to the future?. Tourism Analysis, 21(Special issue on Post-
disciplinarity)
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Exam
* this slide
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