Tourism, Sport, Leisure, And Recreation

Definitions

• Leisure: any freely chosen activity or experience that takes place in non-work time.

• Recreation: a leisure-time activity undertaken voluntarily and for enjoyment. It includes individual pursuits, organised outings and events, and non-paid (non-professional) sports.

• Sport: a physical activity involving events and competitions at the national and international scale with professional participants.

Definitions

• Tourism: traval away from home for at least one night for the purpose of leisure. This definition excludes day trips, some of which may be international trips.

• Ecotourism: tourism focusing on the natural environment and local communities.

• Heritage Tourism: tourism based on a historic legacy (landscape feature, historic building, or event) as its major attraction.

• Sustainable Tourism: tourism that conserves primary tourist resources and supports the livlihoods and culture of local people.

Definitions

• Mass Tourism: an organised form of large-scale tourism, in which travel, accommodation, and meals are booked and paid for in advance.

• Leakage: refers to the money that “escapes” from a tourist destination and makes its way to other countries via airline companies, hotel companies, Multinational Corporations, and Food Importers etc.

Definitions

• Carrying Capacity: refers to the maximum number of visitors or participants that a site or an event can satisfy at one time.

• Environmental Carrying Capacity: the maximum number before the local environment becomes damaged.

• Perceptual Carrying Capacity: the maximum number before a specific group of visitors considers the levels of impact, such as noise, to be excessive. For example, young mountain-bikers may be more crowd-tolerant than elderly walkers.

Difficulties

• There are many difficulties in applying these definitions.

• For example, definitions of sport, leisure, and recreation overlap, and participation in them may be simultaneous.

• Some may play golf or go go swimming or skiing while they are on holiday.

Activity

Using A2 Geography P266-268, answer the following questions…

1.Distinguish the difference between Recreation and Tourism.2.Why are the distinctions between Recreation and Tourism, and Business and Tourism often blurred?3.Make a labelled and annotated sketch to show the differences between Leisure, Recreation, and Tourism.