geography of tourism

Tourism geography is the study of travel and tourism, as an industry and as a social and cultural activity.

It focuses on the connection of the "inner" tourist experience to the "outer" geographic destination. Tourism geography also focuses on the poignant natural and cultural elements that make up the geographic destination.

In simpler terms, tourism geography is the study of...travel and tourism, and how the places that people go are determined by the features of that place, whether they be artificial or natural. The experience of visiting a foreign location as a tourist is a sociological aspect of tourism geography. The way that tourism impacts these places is the geographical aspect. More hotels may have to be built, resulting in a disruption of the land, but it would bring in more jobs, which would boost an economy. The travel industry as a whole is a boost for any country.

Here, a random diagram that probably doesn't belong, but it looked really cool.

And here, a video that sort of explains the concept of tourism geography, albeit it with terminology that I don't understand:



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