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Tourism session 3
2013
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Reference.com - if you want to check
the context of a word
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Cabo San Lucas words about drinking
Binge drinking or heavy episodic drinking is
the modern epithet for drinking alcoholic
beverages with the primary intention of
becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption
of alcohol over a short period of time.
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New trends in tourism
New types of activities/sports
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Couch surfing
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Zorbing, tubing, quading?
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Trekking, orienteering, geocatching?
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Paragliding, kitesurfing, parasailing,
hang gliding?
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Rafting, yachting!, sand kiting
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Wingsuit sky diving, cliff jumping
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Active Tourism
Active Tourism is thecontrary of passivetourism. This travellingconcept is also opposed
to Mass Tourism in thesense that is smallscale, low-impact, runand administrated
locally. Active Tourism issocially and ecologicallysustainable.
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Some of of the mostinteresting activities of aregion are only available to thelocal population. However, theinternational tourist can have
access to them through a"local friend". Active Tourismoffers this type of activities,such as dancing, cookinglessons and language learning.It also offers visits to local
cultural events as footballmatches, concerts, theatherand art expositions.
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Active tourism
It also aims to educate the human being,
culturally and ecologically. The participation in
mental activities and physical excercises is
very important.
Check this website:
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Action vs. Active Tourism
Active Tourism should not be confused with Action Tourism, whichenvolves many sports activities like hicking, mountain bike, cross country,bungee jumping and extreme sports. Active Tourism excludes activitiesand practises that are harmful to the environment and pose a threath tobiodiversity and cultural structure. Many activities of Action Tourism arealready offered at big scale by Mass Tourism. To guarantee protection of
the environment, active tourism activities are carried out by localprofessional personel and under strict scientific supervision. The tourguides of Active Tourism have an academic degree in ecology, biology,ethnology, arquitecture, history or sociology. Active Tourism is not only asuperficial change of image (greenwashing) but is fully committed to itsprinciples and guidelines of operation.
Action Tourism:
Active Tourism:
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Warning:
Although the previous slide indicates a clear
distinction between Active vs Action tourism,
usually Active tourism is used as a general
term for types of tourism that involves a lot ofactivities (outdoor, indoor).
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Typical concepts:
biodiversity
cultural diversity
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