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Chapter 1 - Introduction to Tourism, Planning and Development - Coggle…

- - - - Tourism is a social, cultural and economic phenomenon which require the movement of people to places away from their usual environment for personal or business purpose
      - Travel
        
        Acitivity of Travelers
      - Concept of Space and Time
        
        Space - Travel away from home or region
        
        Time - time spent away from home or region
    - - Organizing future to achieve some objectives
      - Possess strong elements of predictability to visualize the future
      - Anticipating and regulating change in a system to promote orderly development to increase social, economic and environmental benefits
      - Tool for destination area development
    - - A process or a state
        
        State refers to relative condition of the object of interest that requires the acceptance unit of measurement
        Example ; GNP, GDP. GNI
        
        Process refers to physical change where a society moves from one condition to another.
      - Development is related virtually with progress, implying positive transformation or good change
- - - - Majority are Western Nations: The United States, Canada, Australia
        Two exceptions are Japan and Israel
    - - Having a centrally planned economy that is switching to a market economy, mostly found around Russia.
    - - Numerous and generally located in the regions of The Asia Pacific, South America, Africa and Middle East
    - - Africa
    - - Measured the development of a country based on statistical indexes such as:
        
        Income per capita
        
        Based on a three-year estimate of the capita gross national income (GNI)
        
        Human Assets Involving a composite index based on
        
        Nutrition
        
        Health
        
        School Enrolment
        
        Literacy
        
        Economic Vulnerability involving composite index such as
        
        Natural Shocks
        
        Trade-related Shocks
        
        Physical Exposure to Shocks
        
        Economic Exposure to Shocks
        
        Remoteness