Using two different examples, outline what is meant by:
(i) the catchment area of leisure and athletic facilities;
(ii) the range of leisure and athletic facilities.
Explain two management strategies to reduce environmental damage from tourism in one named rural area.
Examine the relative importance of factors influencing the distribution of athletic facilities in one or more named urban areas.
Outline two human and two physical factors that are possible causes of desertification in a hot, arid environment.
Explain three reasons why there are concentrations of people in some parts of hot, arid areas.
Examine the severity of the different challenges for resource development in periglacial areas.
Define the term tourism.
State two possible reasons why not all international arrivals can be classified as tourists.
Explain two strategies designed to manage the environmental damage caused by tourism in one named large town or city.
Discuss the view that the economic benefits of tourism in one country you have studied outweigh its negative social and environmental impacts.
The photograph shows tourists at a popular site in Tokyo, Japan.
With reference to the photograph, identify one primary tourist attraction.
With reference to the photograph, identify one secondary tourist attraction.
Using photographic evidence, suggest why the perceptual carrying capacity of this sitemight have been reached.
For one named international sporting event, explain how one physical factor and two human factors influenced the choice of venue(s).
Examine the extent to which the aims of sustainable tourism might be achieved in two different environments.
The map shows the area around the valley of the River Tarn and the town of Sainte-Enimie in Southern France. The scale is 1:100 000 and the contour interval is 40 metres. Photograph A shows the town of Sainte-Enimie.
Using map evidence, identify and locate two secondary tourist resources.
Describe how one characteristic of the valley of the River Tarn limits its environmental carrying capacity.
(i) State the direction in which the camera was pointing when photograph A was taken.
(ii) Referring to photograph A, suggest the evidence that the perceptual carrying capacity of Sainte-Enimie may already have been exceeded.
Using examples, evaluate the use of tourism as a development strategy in some low-income countries.
The following information describes the distribution of global tourism arrivals in various regions in 2022:
Describe the general pattern of global tourism arrivals based on the provided information.
Suggest two possible reasons why Europe has a high number of tourism arrivals.
Identify and explain one region with low tourism arrivals and provide reasons for this pattern.
Discuss the potential economic impacts of high tourism arrivals on a region.
The table shows the world’s fifteen most visited cities in 2013.
Describe the global pattern of the most visited cities.
Explain one strength and one weakness of ecotourism for local communities.
State the median value of visitor numbers in 2013.
Outline what is meant by the term “ecotourism”.
For one named national sports league, examine the relationship between the location of its teams and the places where their supporters live.
The graph shows international tourist arrivals, by region, between 1970 and 2015.
Estimate the numbers of tourist arrivals in 2015 for Africa, and for Asia and the Pacific
Outline one reason why international tourism data may be unreliable.
Explain one economic factor and one political factor that may have contributed to the increased numbers of tourist arrivals for Asia and the Pacific from 2000 to 2015.
Examine the cultural and political factors that might affect success for countries participating in major international sports.
Explain three geographic factors that might influence decision-makers in choosing a host city for a global athletic event.
The graph shows the number of international tourist arrivals between 1950–2020.
State the year in which international tourist arrivals in Europe exceeded 400 million for the first time.
Describe the trend in international tourist arrivals in the East Asia/Pacific region shown on the graph.
Suggest three possible reasons for a decline in the total number of international arrivals in the world.
Referring to one or more named examples, examine why some countries have invested in tourism in order to promote development.