WorksheetsGlobalization and Sustainability Quiz
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
At its simplest, globalization is defined as:
Establishing a global government.
Crossing borders.
Creating a single language.
Eliminating all local businesses.
Which two technologies have primarily led to the rapid pace of globalization in recent times?
Television and radio.
Jet planes and the Internet.
Steam engines and printing press.
Smartphones and social media.
Wahab and Cooper (2001) describe globalization as an all-encompassing term for a world that is becoming:
More divided by politics.
Controlled by a few countries.
Borderless and an interdependent whole.
Focused only on environmental issues.
Beynon and Dunkerley (2000) argue that the growth of products and phenomena common to all regions marks the emergence of:
A new economic crisis.
A new world culture.
A loss of all traditional values.
A global tourism monopoly.
According to Albrow (2004), globalization influences the values and daily behavior of:
Only people in Western countries.
Many groups in contemporary society.
Only international business travelers.
Political leaders exclusively.
Albrow (2004) suggests that ICT makes it possible to maintain social relationships regardless of:
Political ideology.
Time and distance.
Language barriers.
Economic status.
International laws and agreements ensure that people can move across national boundaries with confidence that they can:
Avoid paying taxes.
Maintain their lifestyles and their life routines.
Purchase any product for free.
Travel without a passport.
Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a disadvantage of globalization?
It reduces the power of national governments.
It is a source of environmental degradation.
It eliminates the gap between rich and poor.
It fades national identities.
In the tourism sector, staying at an international hotel chain like Hilton gives tourists confidence that:
The price will be the lowest available.
The level of service and comfort will be the same.
They are supporting a local family business.
There is no political risk in the destination.
Why are host communities in developing countries often excluded from the profits of tourism?
They do not want to work in tourism.
Many tourism companies are foreign-owned.
Local laws forbid them from earning money.
There is no demand for tourism in those areas.
Globalization has led to an increase in international tourism demand, specifically with the growth of:
Space travel.
Continental and intercontinental travel.
Walking tours.
Virtual reality tourism.
Bianchi (2006) states that international tourism represents the apotheosis of:
Environmental protection.
Consumer capitalism and Western modernity.
Cultural isolation.
Global peace and harmony.
In the context of globalization, what now plays an ever more important role in destination development and management?
Advertising budgets.
Safety and security.
Luxury amenities.
Number of hotel rooms.
Rogers et al. (2008) describe sustainability as a term chosen to:
Stop economic development.
Bridge the gulf between development and environment.
Promote mass tourism.
Increase international trade.
According to Dresner (2008), the starting point of the concept of sustainable development was the aim to:
Ban the use of fossil fuels.
Integrate environmental considerations into economic policy.
Limit the number of international flights.
Tax all tourism activities.
What are the three aspects that sustainability consists of?
Social Political and Environmental.
Economic Environmental and Social.
Financial Technical and Cultural.
Global National and Local.
The Brundtland Report (1987) defined sustainable development as development that meets the needs of the present without:
Using any natural resources.
Compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Increasing the national debt.
Changing the environment at all.
The central recommendation of the Brundtland Report was to balance competing demands for:
Technology and tradition.
Environmental protection and economic development.
Tourism and agriculture.
Rich and poor countries.
Unlike the Kyoto Protocol the 2015 Paris Climate Accord requires all parties to:
Follow binding emission limits set by the UN.
Set their own emission targets.
Stop all carbon trading.
Pay a global carbon tax.
In the determinants of sustainable development the aim to not use resources beyond the reasonable limit set by nature is called:
Production.
Distribution.
Consumption.
Legislation.
The determinant of Distribution in sustainable development specifically aims to:
Spread tourists across more destinations.
Reduce poverty and inequality.
Ship more goods to foreign markets.
Allocate more budget to marketing.
A strong sustainability approach argues that resources need to be preserved for future generations because:
They are commodities that support humankind.
Humankind cannot substitute them.
They are the only source of profit.
Technology will eventually replace them.
A weak sustainability approach regards resources as:
Sacred and untouchable.
A commodity that supports humankind.
Something that must never be used.
Entirely irrelevant to development.
The greenhouse effect is defined as warming that results when:
The sun gets closer to the Earth.
The atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space.
Forests are cut down for agriculture.
Volcanic eruptions release ash into the sky.
Tourism is often accused of being inherently unsustainable because it is:
A low profit sector.
A transport intensive sector.
Controlled by local governments.
Limited to wealthy people.
In the evolution of ICT the period in the 1950s focused on automation is known as:
Strategic Information Systems.
Data Processing.
The Network era.
Management Information Systems.
One significant advantage of the network era is that it reduced the significance of:
Personal computers.
Location and size as a competitive advantage.
Internet speed.
Language skills.
According to Middleton et al (2009) Web 2.0 caused a major shift in power towards:
Large hotel corporations.
Consumers.
National governments.
Software developers.
The sharing economy is also known as:
The industrial economy.
The collaborative or P2P economy.
The government led economy.
The retail economy.
Blockchain technology is described as a:
Physical currency used by tourists.
Decentralised database distributed among thousands or millions of computers.
Marketing strategy for social media.
Way to build hotels more quickly.
