The Categorization of Touristic Activities…
Syllabus Point: The categorization of touristic activities (cost, duration, destination) and sporting activities (cost, popularity, site)
Key Skill Development:
Categorisation
Linking key concepts
Key Terms:
Primary Tourist/Recreational Resources
Secondary Tourist/Recreational Resources
Ecotourism
Starter:
Create a table like the one below. Give the headings Niche Tourism and Mass Tourism. From pg.216 in your course books identify the characteristics of both these kinds of tourism in terms of cost, duration and destination…
Task 2: Look at the list of sports below as see if you can create any categories within the list…You can creat whatever categories you want…
- Athletics
- Dancing
- Outdoor sports
- Swimming
- Raquet sports
- Bowling
- Cricket
- Football
- Boxing/Martial Arts
- Minor team sports
- Water Sports
Task 3:
Using pgs. 216 and 217 from your course text book – choose any two of the activities from the two different groups and comment on their likely cost, popularity and site…
Type of Tourism within the IB Syllabus…
(source: http://www.adorngeo.com/1-changing-leisure-patterns.html)
Task 4: Make a copy of the above diagram for your notes and attempt the following:
- Identify two examples for each sub-tourism of Niche Tourism…
- Explain the advantages and disadvantages of Mass Tourism…
Syllabus Point: Factors affecting personal participation in sports and tourism, including affluence, gender, stage in life-cycle, personality, place of residence…
Task 5: Using your course book from pgs. 220 – 224 and the below resources create a “Super Development Compass Rose” in your work books on the factors that affect personal participation in sports and tourism. Make sure you place some examples into your notes…
This research tool in Geography will help you to identify and categorize Social, Economical, Environmental and Political reasons and impacts…
Task 6: Have a read of the UK case study on pgs. 223&224 of your course book…And then look at the example infograph below of the level of sport participation by Deaf people in the UK.
Plenary:
Explain how have human development processes given the rise to the concept of leisure and leisure activities? (6marks)
