It is highly likely that the general public will be traveling, touring, and living in space at some time in the twenty-first century. If history is to be followed, the human expansion into space, on a large scale, is a foreseeable prospect for...

In spite of the enormous importance of tourism in the world economy and its great significance for students of social change and culture contact, the anthropology of tourism has only really developed since the 1970s. Until that relatively recent past,...

Tourism has come a long way. China had gingerly guarded against foreigners until the early 1980s. The initial influx plagued the country’s poor infrastructure. In two decades, however, its economic miracle has created one of the world’s...

Not normally used as a vocative. It occurs in Looking for Mr Goodbar, by Judith Rossner, because a man visits the area where a woman lives and is said by her to be ‘taking it all in like a tourist’. She therefore says to him: ‘So what...

Tourism is travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes or the provision of services to support this leisure travel. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment...

The increase in the number of overnight tourist stays in Slovenia was again relatively high in the third quarter of 2007. The number of overnight stays rose by 6.8% in this period, year on year, while the number of tourists increased by 7.5%. The...

Environment and Tourism. By Andrew Holden. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. The $4.5 billion tourism industry is a key medium through which humans interact with nature. This book is the tourism entry in Routledge's Environment and Society series, which consists of "short,...

Along with damage to property, infrastructure and crops, the wildfires in California have hurt tourism.Popular tourist destinations, such as SeaWorld in San Diego and the Wild Animal Park in nearby Escondido, were forced to shut down.Along with those temporary disruptions, the impact of nationally televised...

Jamaican officials plan to open a tourism training school as part of a campaign to reverse a downturn in visitors to the Caribbean island, including from the key U.S. market."The (tourism) industry has been on a dangerous, downwards spiral over the last six months," newly...

Essay consists of a discussion of tourism and its negative effects on the world.

A discussion of tourism and its negative effects on the world.

Details how tourism affects the environment of Florida both physically and culturally. Explains the impact of tourism on the Florida economy.