WorksheetsTourism Exam Revision
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 15mins
Identify the negative economic impact of tourism
The creation of tourist sites results in more employment opportunities (eg. tour guides, hospitality).
The arrival of tourists enables the government to be able to improve infrastructure, schools and hospitals.
Money can be diverted away from being used for local schools and hospitals, so that tourism can prosper. This investment diversion can help build schools and hospitals in the long term.
A country's/city's/town's socio-economic status can be too dependent on tourism. When a downturn or loss of tourism occurs, the entire economy can collapse.
Which is the correct definition for domestic tourism?
Tourism within a tourist's own country
Tourism which involves people taking a holiday in their own home
What type of tourism is represented in the image?
Dark tourism
Ecotourism
Built facilities
Boat tourism
Which is the correct definition for ecotourism?
Tourists' responsible spending of their money whilst visiting a tourist destination.
The responsible travel to urban areas that conserves the environment, sustains the wellbeing of the local people, and involves interpretation and education.
The responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment, sustains the wellbeing of the local people, and involves interpretation and education.
The type of tourism which aims to only boost a place's economy.
What is dark tourism?
Dark tourism concerns tourists visiting attractions in the evening / night.
Dark tourism involves tourists visiting theme parks with scary rides like the hunted house and Dreamworld.
Dark tourism involves tourists visiting places that have experienced or are linked to conflict, death and tragedy. These places include battlefields, fortifications, museums and memorials.
This image was taken in Phu Quoc. What type of tourism does it offer?
Natural environments
Built facilities
Historic and cultural tourism
Dark tourism
Select the positive sociocultural impacts of tourism?
The preservation and transmission of cultural and historical traditions, which often contributes to the conservation and sustainable management of natural resources, the protection of local heritage and a renaissance of indigenous cultures, cultural arts and crafts.
Destinations risk standardization in the process of satisfying tourists desires. This suggests that locals cater the landscape, accommodation, food and drinks... to meet tourists' desires for the new and unfamiliar.
Travelling brings people from different cultures into contact with each other. Travelling and inherently, tourism can foster cultural exchanges between hosts and tourists.
Select the main reasons for why tourism has increased since the 1950s.
Greater awareness (through advertising)
More car ownership (more families own a car)
More affluence (people have become more wealthy / more disposable income)
Introduction of social media
What worldwide event occurred in 2008 which may explain the drop in tourism numbers experienced by Vietnam between 2007 and 2009.
Typhoon
Flooding
Global economic crisis
Barack Obama won presidency
Where is Vietnam located in Asia?
South East
West
South West
East
What does GDP stand for (with regards to economics)?
Geographic Destination for Profit
Gross Domestic Profit
Gross Domestic Product
What is Ha Long Bay's Geographical location?
South Western Vietnam
North Western Vietnam
North Eastern Vietnam
South Eastern Vietnam
What is Phu Quoc's Geographical location?
South West of Vietnam - It is a Vietnamese island off the coast of Cambodia in the Gulf of Thailand.
South East of Vietnam - It is a Vietnamese island off the coast of Cambodia in the Gulf of Thailand.
South West of Vietnam - It is a Vietnamese island off the coast of Cambodia in the Gulf of Cambodia.
What is Vietnam's climate typically described as?
Continental climate
Typhoon-influenced tropical climate
Monsoon-influenced sub-tropical climate
Temperate climate
Choose the correct definition for carrying capacity
Carrying the team
Tourist destination reaching capacity
The maximum level of sustainable visitor use possible in a region
Choose the correct definition for indirect impact?
The flow-on effect of the tourism industry, leading to knock-on effects in other related industries through environmental, sociological and economic impacts.
The flow-on effect of the tourism industry, leading to economic activity in other related industries through economic links.
What is the correct definition for topography?
The distribution of the population across a place.
A type of writing font
The arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area.
A diagram of a mountain with detailed routes marked on it.
What is the correct definition for conservation?
Stopping any infrastructure development from occurring
Chatting that occurs between two people
Protection of a place
Management and use of resources to ensure they are not depleted or damaged
Choose the correct definition for disposable income
It is the amount of income left after paying the taxes.
It is the amount of income that can be disposed away.
It is the amount of income left after giving money to the parents.
It is the amount of income left for traveling in a year.
What is the definition of a tourist?
Someone who travels outside the country for leisure.
Someone traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for more than 24h for leisure or business.
Someone staying at their friend's house for more than 24h but less than one year, for leisure or business.
Someone who goes to the airport with a luggage and takes a plane to another country.
Which of the following is a positive impact of tourism on the environment?
Vandalism
Increased littering
Conservation of natural environments
Increased congestion
What is gentrification?
The development of infrastructure.
The buying and renovation of real estate by high-income earners causing a rise in real estate prices and displacing and excluding low-income individuals, families and small businesses from the market.
An increasing amount of homeless people within a place.
The buying and renovation of real estate to better cater for the growing tourism industry.
What type of tourism does the Jewish Museum of Australia, St Kilda provide?
Dark tourism
Heritage / Cultural tourism
Built facility
Ecotourism
What type of tourism is Achland Street?
Spiritual tourism
Heritage/cultural tourism
Built facilities
Ecotourism
What infrastructure development has assisted in boosting tourism numbers?
Public Transport
Communication networks
Sewage
Water management
What is an example of ecotourism in St Kilda?
The EcoCentre
Volunteering with Earthcare
Habitat HQ Hostel (first carbon neutral backpacker hostel in Melbourne)
Luna Park
What is an example of a negative environmental impact of tourism?
Flash photography of St Kilda Penguins
Littering on the foreshore
The development of infrastructure using non-recycled materials and non-sustainable materials
Noise pollution and air pollution as a result of overcrowding during peak season
