Lecture Marine environmental studies, this topic provides knowledge of ocean dumping. In this chapter, the following content will be discussed: London Dumping Convention of 1972, what is dumping? Orientation, London protocol basic rules, current and future issues,...

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Chapter 1 - Tourism in perspective. After completing this unit, you should be able to: Understand what tourism is and its many definitions, learn the components of tourism and tourism management, examine the various approaches to studying tourism,...

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Chapter 2 - Tourism through the ages. After completing this unit, you should be able to: Recognize the antiquity of human travel over vast distances on both sea and land, understand how these journeys have evolved from trips which were difficult and often dangerous to mass travel for millions today, learn about some of the great travelers in history who wrote astonishing accounts of exotic places they had visited,...

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Chapter 3 - Career opportunities. After completing this unit, you should be able to: Evaluate future job opportunities in the tourism field, learn about the careers available, discover which might match your interests and abilities, know additional sources of information on careers.

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Chapter 4 - World, national, regional and other organizations. After completing this unit, you should be able to: Understand the magnitude of world tourism in terms of the vast numbers of organizations that serve the needs of their diverse memberships, recognize the variety of types and functions of tourism organizations, know why states support official offices of tourism,...

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Chapter 5 - Passenger transportation. After completing this unit, you should be able to: Comprehend the importance of transportation in tourism, understand the airline industry and its role in travel, examine the domination of the automobile in travel, learn about the role of rail and motor coach travel, study the cruise industry.

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Chapter 8 - Attractions, recreation, and other tourist draws. After completing this unit, you should be able to: Examine the attractions sphere, look at the role of theme parks, understand the gaming industry, describe public and commercial recreation facilities, recognize shopping as a travel attraction.

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Chapter 13 - Measuring and forecasting demand. Economists defi ne demand as a schedule of the amount of any product or service that people are willing and able to buy at each specifi c price in a set of possible prices during some specifi ed period of time. Thus there exists at any one time a defi nite relationship between the market price and the quantity demanded.

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Chapter 6 - Hospitality and related services. After completing this unit, you should be able to: Study the lodging industry, appreciate the immensity of the restaurant-food service industry, learn the current trends in resorts and timesharing mode of operation, discover why meetings and conventions as well as meeting planners are so important to tourism.

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Chapter 7 - Organizations in the distribution process. After completing this unit, you should be able to: Become familiar with tourism distribution systems organizations and their functions, understand travel agents and their role in the distribution system, consider the impact of the internet on the distribution system,...

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Chapter 10 - Cultural and international tourism for life's enrichment. After completing this unit, you should be able to: Recognize that travel experiences are the best way to learn about other cultures, identify the cultural factors in tourism appreciate the rewards of participation in life-seeing tourism,...

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Chapter 9 - Motivation for pleasure travel. After completing this unit, you should be able to: Adopt a professional approach to motivation and recognize differences in other people ’ s motives, appreciate the range of ideas on travel motivation, including historical accounts and psychological theories, be aware of contemporary research practices in tourism that integrate motive and destination feature assessments.

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