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, organized outings and events, and non‑paid (non‑professional) sports. |
Resort | A settlement where the primary function is tourism. This includes a hotel complex. |
Sport | A physical activity involving a set of rules or customs. The activity may be competitive. |
Tourism | Travel away from home for at least one night for the purpose of leisure. Note that this definition excludes day‑trippers. There are many possible subdivisions of tourism. |
Carrying capacity | The maximum number of visitors/participants that a site/event can satisfy at one time. It is customary to distinguish between: environmental carrying capacity (the maximum number before the local environment becomes damaged) and perceptual carrying capacity (the maximum number before a specific group of visitors considers the level of impact, such as noise, to be excessive). For example, young mountain bikers may be more crowd‑tolerant than elderly walkers.
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Hotspot | This is an area of intense leisure activities that attract an above-average number of visitors. Tourists are attracted to these areas because they have primary and secondary resources and they are accessible. |
Primary Tourist Resources | The main tourist attractions. For example climate, scenery (desert, national parks), coastal resorts, historic and heritage buildings (Cape Coast castle), indigenous cultures, cultural dance, and festivals. Kakum National Park and wildlife. Some other human aspects include monuments like the Statue of Liberty, Christ the Redeemer, Mount Rushmore, Eiffel Tower. |
Secondary Tourist Resources | can be external (airports, sea ports, road networks that cut across national borders, railway) or it can be internal (car parks, well-developed signposts, hotels, electricity, internet services, restaurants, water supply, sanitation). |
Niche tourism | Niche tourism is a form of tourism that caters for the needs of small numbers of tourists. There are many forms of niche tourism, which include Adventure tourism, Ecotourism, Heritage tourism, Movie tourism, Agro tourism, Medical tourism, Silver (grey) tourism, and Dark tourism. |
Adventure tourism | This is a type of niche tourism whereby the tourists travel to remote areas or physically challenging environments that are sometimes dangerous to the tourists. This may include:
Travels to Mt Everest, Nepal. Embarking on a trip to this summit cost about $50,000. Visit to Antarctica Sahara Tour Mariana Trench Adventure tourism can either be expensive and cost as much as $50,000 to Mount Everest or it can be as cheap as $3000 to places such as Machu Picchu. It is a form of tourism that benefits the local community and also gives the tourist the opportunity to discover aspects of nature that are less known.
Besides, adventure tourism also protects the natural environment in a sustainable way because most of the tourists are well educated and, according to the world tourism organization, over half of the adventure tourists are women. |
Extreme environment tourism | This involves dangerous landscapes often with a difficult climate, and remote places that are sparsely settled or not occupied at all. Characteristics of extreme tourists are that they are without children, have high-paid jobs/good income earners etc. |
Movie location tourism | This is a form of tourism that takes place in areas where popular movies have been shot
Lord of the Rings acted in New Zealand Game of Thrones in Northern Ireland The Hobbit in New Zealand Theme parks such as Disneyland have created a setting that looks like the movie to attract viewers |
Heritage tourism | It refers to travel to experience the place, artefacts, historic sites or indigenous people. It is sometimes referred to as historical tourism. |
Mass Tourism | The opposite of niche tourism is mass tourism. Mass tourism caters for the needs of a large number of people. This includes packaged tours and itineraries. |
Unsustainable tourism | is tourism that fails to consider the livelihood and culture of the local population and does little to protect the natural environment/resources. |
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