Tourism and geography

1. MILAN RADOVANOVIC GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE JOVAN CVIJIC SASA Belgrade, Serbia tourism and geography CHELJABINSK 2017

MILAN RADOVANOVIC
GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE JOVAN CVIJIC SASA
BELGRADE, SERBIA
TOURISM AND GEOGRAPHY
CHELJABINSK
2017

2. Backpacking tourists in Vienna

BACKPACKING TOURISTS IN VIENNA
Geography is fundamental to the study of tourism, because tourism is
geographical in nature. Tourism occurs in places, it involves movement and
activities between places and it is an activity in which both place
characteristics and personal self-identities are formed, through the
relationships that are created among places, landscapes and people.
Physical geography provides the essential background, against which
tourism places are created and environmental impacts and concerns are
major issues, that must be considered in managing the development of
tourism places.

3. A tourist taking photographs and video at an archaeological site

The approaches to study will differ according to the varying concerns. Much
tourism management literature remains quantitative in methodology and considers
tourism as consisting of the places of tourist origin (or tourist generating areas),
tourist destinations (or places of tourism supply) and the relationship (connections)
between origin and destination places, which includes transportation routes,
business relationships and traveler motivations. Recent developments in human
geography have resulted in approaches such as those from cultural geography,
which take more theoretically diverse approaches to tourism, including a sociology
of tourism, which extends beyond tourism as an isolated, exceptional activity and
considering how travel fits into the everyday lives and how tourism is not only a
consumptive of places, but also produces the sense of place at a destination.

4.

In 2016, there were 1.235 billion international tourist arrivals worldwide, with a growth of 4% as
compared to 1.186 billion in 2015. The top 10 international tourism destinations in 2016 were:
Rank Destination
International
tourist
arrivals
(2016)[1]
International Change Change
tourist
(2015 to (2014 to
arrivals
2016) 2015)
[1]
(2015)
(%)
(%)
1
France
82.6 million
84.5 million
2.2
0.9
2
United States
75.6 million
77.5 million
2.4
3.3
3
Spain
75.6 million
68.5 million
10.3
5.5
4
China
59.3 million
56.9 million
4.2
2.3
5
Italy
52.4 million
50.7 million
3.2
4.4
6
United Kingdom 35.8 million
34.4 million
4.0
5.6
7
Germany
35.6 million
35.0 million
1.7
6.0
8
Mexico
35.0 million
32.1 million
8.9
9.4
9
Thailand
32.6 million
29.9 million
8.9
20.6
10
Turkey
31.3 million[citation needed] 39.5 million
24.6
0.8

5.

International tourism receipts grew to US$1,260 billion in 2015, corresponding to an increase in real
terms of 4.4% from 2014. The World Tourism Organization reports the following destinations as the top
twelve tourism earners for the year 2015, with the United States by far the top earner.
Rank Region
International
tourism
receipts
(2016)[1]
International
tourism
receipts
(2015)[1]
Change
(2015 to
2016)
(%)
Change
(2014 to
2015)
(%)
1
United States
$205.9 billion $205.4 billion
0.3%
7.0%
2
Spain
$60.3 billion $56.5 billion
6.9%
13.3%
3
Thailand
$49.9 billion $44.9 billion
11.0%
16.9%
4
China
$44.4 billion $45.0 billion
1.2%
2.1%
5
France
$42.5 billion $44.9 billion
5.3%
22.9%
6
Italy
$40.2 billion $39.4 billion
2.0%
13.3%
7
United Kingdom $39.6 billion $45.5 billion
12.9%
2.3%
8
Germany
$37.4 billion $36.9 billion
1.4%
14.8%
9
Hong Kong
$32.9 billion $36.2 billion
9.1%
5.8%
10
Australia
$32.4 billion $28.9 billion
12.3%
8.2%

6.

The World Tourism Organization reports the following destinations as the top ten biggest spenders on
international tourism for the year 2015 and 2016.
Rank Region
International
tourism
expenditure
(2016)
International
tourism
expenditure
(2015)
1
China
$261.1 billion $249.8 billion
2
United States
$123.6 billion $114.7 billion
3
Germany
$79.8 billion
$77.5 billion
4
United Kingdom $63.6 billion
$63.3 billion
5
France
$40.5 billion
$39.3 billion
6
Canada
$29.1 billion
$30.1 billion
7
South Korea
$26.6 billion
$25.3 billion
8
Italy
$25.0 billion
$24.4 billion
9
Australia
$24.9 billion
$23.8 billion
10
Hong Kong
$24.2 billion
$23.1 billion

7.

Based upon air traffic, the MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index rates the following as the world's
ten most popular cities for international tourism.
2016
Rank City
Country
International
tourist arrivals
1
Bangkok
Thailand
21.47 million
2
London
United Kingdom
19.88 million
3
Paris
France
18.03 million
4
Dubai
United Arab Emirates 15.27 million
5
New York City
United States
12.75 million
6
Singapore
Singapore
12.11 million
7
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
12.02 million
8
Istanbul
Turkey
11.95 million
9
Tokyo
Japan
11.70 million
10
Seoul
South Korea
10.20 million

8.

World Travel & Tourism Council - Countries that performed best in fastest growing tourism and travel
industry in 2016
Countries Performed Best In 2016
Rank Country
Percentage
1
Azerbaijan 46.1%
2
Mongolia
24.4%
3
Iceland
20.1%
4
Cyprus
15.4%
5
Kazakhstan 15.2%
6
Moldova
7
Costa Rica 12.1%
8
Georgia
11.2%
9
Sri Lanka
10.7%
10
Thailand
10.7%
14.2%

9. Ecotourism, also known as ecological tourism, is responsible travel to fragile, pristine, and usually protected areas that

ECOTOURISM, ALSO KNOWN AS ECOLOGICAL TOURISM, IS RESPONSIBLE TRAVEL TO FRAGILE, PRISTINE, AND USUALLY PROTECTED
AREAS THAT STRIVES TO BE LOW-IMPACT AND (OFTEN) SMALL-SCALE. IT HELPS EDUCATE THE TRAVELER; PROVIDES FUNDS FOR
CONSERVATION; DIRECTLY BENEFITS THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES; AND
FOSTERS RESPECT FOR DIFFERENT CULTURES AND FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. TAKE ONLY MEMORIES AND LEAVE ONLY FOOTPRINTS IS A
VERY COMMON SLOGAN IN PROTECTED AREAS. TOURIST DESTINATIONS ARE SHIFTING TO LOW CARBON EMISSIONS FOLLOWING THE
TREND OF VISITORS MORE FOCUSED IN BEING ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE ADOPTING A SUSTAINABLE BEHAVIOR.
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10. Geotourism deals with the natural and built environments. Geotourism was first defined (Hose, 1995) in England. There are two

GEOTOURISM DEALS WITH THE NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENTS.
GEOTOURISM WAS FIRST DEFINED (HOSE, 1995) IN ENGLAND. THERE ARE TWO
VIEWPOINTS OF GEOTOURISM:
PURELY GEOLOGICAL AND GEOMORPHOLOGICALLY-FOCUSED SUSTAINABLE TOURISM AS
ABIOTIC NATURE BASED TOURISM. THIS IS THE DEFINITION FOLLOWED IN MOST OF THE
WORLD.
GEOGRAPHICALLY SUSTAINABLE TOURISM, THE MOST COMMON DEFINITION IN THE USA.
THIS EMPHASISES PRESERVATION OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL SENSE OF A PLACE IN GENERAL,
BEYOND SIMPLE GEOLOGICAL AND GEOMORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES, AS A NEW CHARTER
& CONCEPT IN THE SUSTAINABLE TOURISM.

11.

Doom tourism
Also known as "Tourism of Doom," or "Last Chance Tourism" this emerging trend involves traveling to
places that are environmentally or otherwise threatened (such as the ice caps of Mount Kilimanjaro, the
melting glaciers of Patagonia, or the coral of the Great Barrier Reef) before it is too late. Identified by
travel trade magazine Travel Age West editor-in-chief Kenneth Shapiro in 2007 and later explored in The
New York Times, this type of tourism is believed to be on the rise. Some see the trend as related to
sustainable tourism or ecotourism due to the fact that a number of these tourist destinations are
considered threatened by environmental factors such as global warming, overpopulation or climate
change. Others worry that travel to many of these threatened locations increases an individual’s carbon
footprint and only hastens problems threatened locations are already facing.

12.

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