Tourism
Explain the growth and geography of mass tourism and ecotourism and evaluate their impacts and management.
How to study National 5 Geography
Start from located evidence, identify the geographical process, develop each causal link and test management against the people and environments affected.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Tourism growth reflects income, leisure time, transport, marketing, attractions, infrastructure, accessibility and perceptions of safety.
Exam cue: Explain why the destination and tourism type attract visitors.
Concept 2
Mass tourism and ecotourism can generate jobs, income, infrastructure and conservation funding while creating leakage, seasonality, congestion, cultural change and environmental pressure.
Exam cue: Trace economic, social and environmental impacts to affected groups.
Concept 3
Carrying-capacity measures, zoning, visitor limits, pricing, codes, local ownership and environmental management target different impacts.
Exam cue: Evaluate whether management changes visitor pressure, local benefit or environmental damage.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Assuming ecotourism has no negative impacts.
Guardrail: Check the command word, option, scale, location, time period and whether the evidence supports every link in the answer.
Counting all tourist spending as retained local income.
Guardrail: Check the command word, option, scale, location, time period and whether the evidence supports every link in the answer.
Listing management without linking it to a specific pressure.
Guardrail: Check the command word, option, scale, location, time period and whether the evidence supports every link in the answer.
Memory anchors
Mass tourism
Large numbers using developed transport, accommodation and attraction infrastructure.
Ecotourism
Nature-focused travel intended to minimise harm and support conservation and local benefit.
Tourism multiplier
Visitor spending circulates through linked local jobs and businesses.
Leakage
Tourism revenue leaves the destination economy.
Carrying capacity
The level of use a place can sustain before unacceptable damage or experience decline.
Tourism evaluation
Visitor numbers, local retention, seasonality, community effects and environmental pressure.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
What is mass tourism?
Why has mass tourism grown?
Answer all questions to submit.
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Move forward only after this module is stable.
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