PLACE IDENTITY
TOURISM: SELLING PLACE
WHAT ARE YOUR MOTIVATIONS
TO BE A TOURIST?
TYPES OF TOURISM
• Leisure tourism • Space tourism • Sustainable tourism
• Adventure tourism • Political tourism • Friends & family tourism
• Ecotourism • War tourism • Voluntourism
• Business tourism • Disaster tourism • Culinary tourism
• Medical tourism • Drug tourism • Sports tourism
• Religious tourism • Sex tourism • And so many more…
QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER:
• What are the parts of the physical geography they are selling?
• What are the parts of the cultural geography they are selling?
• Who is their target audience? (Who are they selling to?)
UNEVEN GEOGRAPHIES
THE ECONOMICS OF TOURISM
UNEVEN
GEOGRAPHIES
OF TOURISM
WHERE ARE
THEY GOING?
WHERE ARE THEY COMING FROM?
THE UNEVEN POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES
OF TOURISM
FRENCH PASSPORT
GHANAIAN PASSPORT
VIETNAMESE PASSPORT
THE UNEVEN ENVIRONMENTAL
GEOGRAPHIES OF TOURISM
UNEVEN GEOGRAPHIES OF TOURISM
• What factors create the uneven geographies of tourism?
• How do the connections / divisions between places impact tourism?
• What impacts do the uneven geographies of tourism have?
• What effect does tourism have on place?
• How do social geographies and economic geographies interact through tourism?
• How do political geographies interact with tourism’s social and economic geographies?
IMPACTS ON TOURISM
Positive Negative
• Economic • Economic
• Increased employment (direct & indirect) • Higher prices for local products
• Generates income for local community • Shops prioritize goods for tourists
• Economic diversification • Housing becomes very expensive
• Jobs are seasonal, low paid, long hours
• Infrastructure development
• Social
• Social
• Can erode traditional values
• Sense of pride
• Increase in crime rate & drugs and alcohol
• Preservation of traditions
• Environmental
• Environmental • Strain on resources
• Financial support • Soil erosion and pollution
• More effort into preserving environments • Deforestation
• Loss of biodiversity/ endangered species
DISCUSSION BOARD #2
THE UNEVEN GEOGRAPHIES OF TOURISM
To fulfill this assignment, you will need to think of a specific type of uneven geographies (e.g. political,
economic, cultural, environmental) and find an example that illustrates the argument about uneven
geographies you want to make.
The structure of your original post should be:
• 1st paragraph: Description of the tourism example you want to focus on. (If you are drawing from
your own experience, that is great. If you are drawing from a newspaper article or other source, be
sure to cite the source.)
• 2nd paragraph: Define uneven geographies in your own terms in relation to the aspect you are going
to be focusing on (political, economic, cultural, environmental, etc.). Then offer a brief analysis of
how your example illustrates the creation and/or perpetuation of uneven geographies.
This post is due Tuesday, February 12th at 11:59pm
Response posts are due Sunday, February 17th at 11:59pm
VIDEO LINKS
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIT9cnB5uhY (south Africa)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUF7ja9ehIs (Australia)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfpmuPQc9es (India)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkJ2tyCzyiA (Peru)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ5x_MKCfPg (Toronto)
• https://www.coursera.org/lecture/sustainable-tourism/tourism-impact-on-the-environment-on-zanzibar-b6zLh
(Zanzibar environmental impacts)
