AQA GCSE GEOGRAPHY NOTES Ashwin Ahuja – St Paul’s School Tourism ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 6 Growth of Tourism......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Factors affecting tourism’s growth ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6 How important is tourism in different countries? ........................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Benefits of tourism in poorer countries .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 How do we manage tourism in the UK? ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 External Factors affecting UK tourism growth ............................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Butler Model .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 7 Blackpool ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Blackpool’s Growth and Stagnation ................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Responding to the decline. ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 9 Strategies to deal with large numbers of tourists in Blackpool. .......................................................................................................................................... 9 Successes ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Failures ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9 To what extent are authorities doing enough to ensure that tourists continue to want to visit Blackpool in the future? ..................................................... 9 They are doing enough ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 9 They are not doing enough ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Mass Tourism .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Advantages ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Disadvantages .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Jamaica ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 11 Extreme Tourism ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Antarctica ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Galapagos Islands ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 13 Globalization...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Rise of the Global Economy and Manufacturing ......................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Globalisation Definition: .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 14 Example ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Product Manufacture .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Where do these occur? ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Causes of increases in trade: ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 14 Technological innovation ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Communications innovation ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Foreign Investment (FDI) ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Aid ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 15 Labour: ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Modern Transport: ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Impacts of Globalization ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Transnational Corporations (TNCs) ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 15 Case Study Nike in Vietnam: ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 17 ADVANTAGES FOR VIETNAM ............................................................................................................................................................................. 17 DISADVANTAGES FOR VIETNAM ....................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Case Study of India and China’s changing role in the global economy: