Edexcel spec A:
Unit 3 Topic 6 - A Tourist’s World
Growth in Global tourism
LO:
I can explain the social, economic and
political causes of the growth in
tourism.
Leisure and tourism
• Tourism is a superb example of temporary
migration. It is wrong to think that it is
exclusively a leisure activity. But the Table
(p240) makes the important point that
tourism comprises at least two other sectors,
namely visiting friends and relatives, and
business visits and trips. Arguably the former
is undertaken as leisure time activity! The
difference is that it does not have commercial
dimension.
Leisure and tourism
• Define the 2 key words
Tourism growth
Describe the pattern shown on the graph (4)
Things to remember:
Write a paragraph analysing the graph, using dates, numbers (millions) and
global regions in your answer. Try and look at the overall trends rather than
writing a detailed year-by-year account. Include some simple statistics, such as
the difference between 1950 and 2005 and percentage changes.
Self assessment: annotate your work if
there is anything you could have
added
• It has increased approximately 70 times, from
about 10 million in 1950 to 700 million in 2000.
Since around 1960 the rate of increase has been
fairly consistent, except for a short period during
the early 1980s.
• Europe remains the dominant international
destination, but there has been a significant rise
in the popularity of the Americas and Asia and
the Pacific. The Middle East and Africa remain
relatively insignificant.
Why has there
been a growth in
tourism?
Categorize factors
into social,
economic and
political reasons
Growth in tourism
(a) Explain how each of the following factors is
responsible for the increase in the number of
people taking holidays:
• Disposable income
• Increased leisure time
• Developments in transport and communications
• Changes in people’s freedom to travel.
(b) Which of these factors would you use to explain
why fewer people in LICs are ‘international
tourists’?