• STRABO
• GEOGRAPHICAL COMPONENTS OF
TOURISM
• CLIMATE AND TOURISM
CONCEPT OF GEOGRAPHY
• GEOGRAPHY is the science which
includes the world and its inhabitants.
• In other words ,it is a description of the
earth, or a portion of the earth, including
its structure, features, products, political
divisions, and the people by whom it is
inhabited.
• Tourism Geography is the study of travel
and tourism, as an industry and as a social
and cultural activity. Tourism geography
covers a wide range of interests including
the environmental aspects of tourism, the
sociology of tourism and locations of
tourism (destinations).
• Tourism geography is that branch of
science which deals with the study of
travel and its impact on destinations.
STRABO
The ancient world's peripatetic geographer
from Amasya
• A member of a noble family on his mother's side,
Strabo was born in 64 or 63 BC in the city of
Amaseia (now called Amasya) capital of Pontus,
a region in northeastern Anatolia that was an
independent kingdom from the 4th century BC
until overcomed by Pompey (The Roman
politician Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, better
known as Pompey, was one of the greatest
generals of his age. He invaded and annexed
Pontus in 62 BC).
• Pontus became a province of the Roman
empire in 62 BC, shortly after Strabo's
birth.
• Coming as he did from a wealthy family,
Strabo was able to undergo a good
education and he also had an opportunity
to travel as the spirit filled him.
• In 44 BC Strabo went to Rome, passing
through Corinth and he studied under
Tyrannion, a geographer from that city.
• (Cicero also refers to Tyrannion as a
distinguished geographer.) It is possible
that Strabo was influenced by this teacher
of his to become a geographer himself.
• Strabo spent much of his life traveling and
noting what he saw, visiting Egypt,
Ethiopia, and many other countries in the
process.
• It is likely that he spent the last twenty-six
or twenty-seven years of his life in his
birthplace Amaseia probably composing
and refining his work.
• In his book, Strabo proudly refers to his
extensive travels and they were extensive
indeed:
• as far east as Armenia in the east, as far
west as the Tyrrhenian
shores(Sardinya,Korsika ve Sicilya
arasındaki deniz) opposite Sardinia,
• as far north as the Pontus Euxinus (Black
Sea), and as far south as Ethiopia.
• In addition, Strabo tells us that among the
geographers, there was no one who had
gone beyond these borders or traveled
more than he had.
• The seventeen volumes of the
Geographika provide information on the
geography of the ancient world stretching
from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the
Indus River in the east.
• Volumes I and II present a history of
geography and earlier geographers.
• Volumes III-XI treat Spain, Gaul, Britain,
Italy, Sicily, northern and southern Europe,
the northern Balkans, Greece, the Black
Sea, and the Caspian Sea.
• Volumes XI-XIV deal with Asia Minor
(Anatolia).
• Volumes XVI-XVII cover India, Persia,
Mesopotamia, Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, and
North Africa.
• The work is more than just a geography
book however: it is in fact a sort of
encyclopedia of the ancient world at the
turn of the millennium, a historical
geography, and–as some have put it–a
"philosophy of geography".
• In his Geographica, he provides us with a
fascinating verbal description of the
'Inhabited World', writing in Greek.
GEOGRAPHICAL
COMPONENTS OF TOURISM
• From a geographical point of view tourism
consists of 3 major components :
1- Traveller generating region,in a sense
provides impulse for travel
2- Tourist destination region, represents the
sharp-end of tourism.At the destination
regions,the full impact of tourism is felt and
planning and management strategies are
implemented.
3- The transit route region, includes travelling
to the main destination,and intermediate
places which may be visited on the road,as
well.
CLIMATE AND TOURISM
• Climate affects the sense of place that
characterizes each individual place,
regardless of scale, on the earth’s surface
and the actions of the human residents and
visitors to that place. Climate is a major
environmental factor that residents or
visitors of any site on earth must consider.
• Climate is important for tourism for a
number of reasons. First, in some cases
climate is an attraction. Locations with
sunny and warm winters are in high
demand by people from cold, snowy,
northern locations.
• Climate also affects what is known as an
individual’s comfort level. The comfort level
is related to what geographers call sensible
temperature. Sensible temperature refers to
what our bodies sense the temperature and
climate to be, rather than what the
climatologists may say it is. Winds and
humidity usually are key elements in the
comfort level.
THE WORLD’S CLIMATES
• The most common classification system
used to describe earth’s climate is known
as the Köppen System. The Köppen
System recognizes 5 major climatic
regions, with subdivisions creating eleven
distinct climatic types. Major climate types
are as follows:
• Tropical Climates: Humid, no winter, near
equator.
• Dry Climates: Desert, steppe, very dry, ex.
Arizona.
• Mesothermal Humid Climates: Middle
latitudes, ex. Mediterranean( 35-45)
• Microthermal Humid Climates: Also in
middle latitudes but they have cooler winters
than the mesothermal climates. (Chicago,
Moscow)
• Polar Climates: Subarctic, tundra, icecap
climates. (Arctic and Antarctica)