Tourism

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Tourism

• Contemporary Relationships

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What is Tourism?

• Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or
  business purposes.

• Tourism is big business and vast amounts of the
  worlds economy is allocated towards this
  industry.

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Why is Tourism Important?

• Australia both spends and earns large amounts of
  revenue from tourism.

Amount Australia Earned (2010)
Amount Australia Spent (2010)
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What Are Some Popular Tourist Sites in Australia?

• Uluru

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What Are Some Popular Tourist Sites in Australia?

• The Great Barrier Reef

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What Are Some Popular Tourist Sites in Australia?

• The Great Barrier Reef

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What Are Some Popular Tourist Sites in Australia?

• Kakadu National Park

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What Are Some Popular Tourist Sites in Australia?

• The Franklin River

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What Are Some Popular Tourist Sites in Victoria?

• The Twelve Apostles

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What Are Some Popular Tourist Sites in Victoria?

• Craigs Hut

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What Are Some Popular Tourist Sites in Victoria?

• The Otways

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What Are Some Popular Tourist Sites in Victoria?

• The Yarra Valley

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What is Common in All Tourism Practices?

• Tourism almost always use the environment as a
  resource. Either as a focal point or in more of a
  playground for recreational activities.
• Features the environment that the tourism
  activity uses in their advertising campaigns.
  They also always feature the activity in the best
  weather conditions for that activity.

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What are Some Different Types of Tourism
Practices?

• Tourism has a wide range of different types,
  however these are a few of the important ones.
• Mass Tourism
• Wine Tourism
• Adventure Tourism
• Eco-Tourism
• Wildlife Tourism

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Mass Tourism

• Mass tourism is the act of visiting a destination
  with large amounts of people at one time.

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Wine Tourism

• Wine tourism which has the purpose to or includes
  the tasting, consumption or purchase of wine,
  often at or near the source.
• Wine tourism can consist of visits to wineries,
  vineyards and restaurants known to offer unique
  vintages, as well as wine festivals or other
  special events.

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Adventure Tourism

• Adventure tourism is a type of tourism, involving
  exploration or travel to remote, exotic and
  possibly hostile areas. Adventure tourism is
  rapidly growing in popularity, as tourists seek
  different kinds of vacations.

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Adventure Tourism

• Allows its participants to step outside of their
  comfort zone.
• Require significant effort and involve some
  degree of risk (real or perceived) and/or
  physical danger.
• This may include activities such as
  mountaineering, trekking, bungee jumping,
  mountain biking, rafting, zip-lining and rock
  climbing.

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Eco-Tourism

• Eco-Tourism involves visiting fragile, pristine,
  and usually protected areas, intended as a low
  impact and often small scale alternative to
  standard commercial tourism.

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Eco-Tourism

• Its purpose may be
• To educate the traveller.
• To provide funds for ecological conservation.
• To directly benefit the economic development and
  political empowerment of local communities.
• To foster respect for different cultures and for
  human rights.

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Eco-Tourism

• Certified ecotourism includes programs that
  minimize the negative aspects of conventional
  tourism on the environment and enhance the
  cultural integrity of local people.
• An integral part of ecotourism is the promotion
  of recycling, energy efficiency, water
  conservation, and creation of economic
  opportunities for local communities.
• For these reasons, ecotourism often appeals to
  environmental and social responsibility
  advocates.

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Wildlife Tourism

• Wildlife Tourism in its simplest sense, is
  watching wild animals in their natural habitat.
• Wildlife tourism is an important part of the
  tourism industries in many countries including
  Australia.
• It has experienced a dramatic and rapid growth in
  recent years world wide and is closely aligned to
  eco-tourism and sustainable-tourism.

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Wildlife Tourism

• Positive Impacts
• Habitat restoration by eco-lodges and other
  tourism operations
• Conservation breeding
• Financial donations
• Research and monitoring
• Anti-poaching

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Wildlife Tourism

• Negative Impacts
• Disturbing Breeding Patterns
• Disturbing Feeding Patterns
• Disruption of parent-offspring bonds
• Increased vulnerability to predators and
  competitors

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What the tourism industry THINK about outdoor
environments - PERCEPTIONS

• The tourism industry acknowledges the need to
  have a sustainable environment and care for the
  environment so that the tourism industry can
  continue.
• The tourism industry makes a lot of money by
  selling and advertising the natural environment
  and for this to continue and tourists to want to
  come to the places of interest they need to keep
  the environment in the best shape possible.
• Tourism companies have their own policies that
  they pass on to the tourists and these can
  include minimal impact strategies.

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What the tourism industry DOES in regards to
outdoor environments - INTERACTIONS

• The government has developed policies to ensure
  that tourism has the least effect on the
  environment as possible.
• The steps to sustainable tourism manual instructs
  tourism companies to indicate the important
  features in the environment and make a plan to
  protect them while advertising them to the
  public.
• Tourism is constantly becoming more popular and
  discussions are in place to make tourism more
  nature friendly where individual tourists will
  need to take responsibility of the environment
  and they will have a duty to nature while they
  tour.

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The EFFECTS that tourism has on the outdoor
environment - IMPACTS

• Depending on the type of tourism (mass,
  recreational, eco, etc.) the human impact varies,
  for the recreational activities the damage is the
  same as those who use nature for recreation.
  However some tourists take an ecotourism approach
  where they view the environment and adopt
  conservation practices and their effects are
  minimal.
• Overall the effect tourism has on the environment
  is directly proportional to the amount of people
  who go to an area and the activities they
  undertake (can include erosion, litter, pollution
  but can also raise awareness and have little
  impact).