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| Who was the speaker on pro-poor tourism? |
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| Gareth Haysom from the University of Cape Town |
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| What is the triple bottom line? |
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A criteria of people, planet, profit, used to determine the success of an organization.
Social, environmental, economical. |
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| Which tour operator traveled from London to Canterbury in the 14th century? |
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| What was the Grand Tour of Europe in the 1700s? |
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- A standard tour around Europe from 1680 to around the 1800s.
- became an educational rite of passage
- became the model for long distance, multidestinational, cultural tourism
- itineraries have been copied by millions of tourists |
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| Who invented modern packaged, group tourism, based on railway transport? |
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| What was significant about the 1930s for tourism? |
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| introduced annual leave with pay - becomes a right for full-time paid workers in many countries |
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| What are 6 positives about tourism? |
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- creates infrastructure
- creates jobs
- multiplier effect
- foreign exchange
- create local capacity
- raise awareness - of environment, for example |
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| What are 6 ways tourism is bad for development |
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- waste- 35 million tons of solid waste annually
- climate change
- little high paying jobs for local training
- culturally insensitive
- may nor ameliorate BOP crisis
- more corporate control
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| How is pro-poor tourism defined? |
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-Originates from western development conceptualisations of development, views of culture and views of growth and the role of the market
- Embedded within a set of tourism and development shifts that emerged after the Rio summit.
- Responsible Tourism Manual 2002: "Responsible Tourism is about providing better holiday experiences for guests and good business opportunities to enjoy better quality of life through increased socio-economic benefits and improved natural resource management"
- not a product, but an approach to tourism, development and management which ensures that local poor people are able to secure economic benefits from tourism in a fair and sustainable manner
PPT is more about the tourism operator fundamentally changing their way of doing business and their cultural pespective. Doing business differently |
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| What are four approaches to corporate social responsibility? |
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1) minimalist - basic stakeholder support, tokenistic, generally human resource oriented
2) philanthropic - project specific, related to specific issues relevant to the particular organization, donations and gifts, seeks to change
3) encompassing - looks beyond the immediate business stakeholder group to the broader community, embedded in company values and management style, seeks to lead change
4) social activist - approach is the foundation of the business, business is a catalyst for change, seeks to effect change in others. |
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| Bulungula Backpackers Lodge |
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- Core business ethic is community development and collaboration.
• Deeply respectful of the community – lodge is on community land and the community of Nqileni village own 40% of the lodge – the village is an integral part of daily life at the lodge.
• All tours and activities are carried out by community members.
• Lodge is run with respect for traditional rules, customs and cultures.
• Sustainability also forms a core part of the experience – amenities are comfortable but are not vastly different to those of community.
• Established a separate philanthropic arm to assist in larger scale community development |
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| What was Cannibal Tours about? |
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| a film by Australian filmmaker O'Rouke about German, Italian, and American tourists who take a commercial group tour up the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. |
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| What are 5 forms of tourism that have developed over recent years |
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- sex tourism
- colonial tourism
- shopping tourism
- commando tourism
- explorer tourism- relive experiences of being the first in a new land. - south pole, space. |
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| Describe the 4 types of tourism found in Bario |
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- adventure tourism
- cultural tourism
- research tourism- values the contributinos that researchers can make to the communities that they study - can enrich or preserve a culture,
- development conferencing - phrase invented in Bario - people traveling to attend conferences, in this case on the benefits of information communication technologies (ICTs) |
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