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The tourism system

Recap The notion of environment is one we need to

question as what it means; Perceptions of the environment are important; What governs these - is the environment 'out

there' as a resource to be used? What factors influence our views our values? Perceptions of humanity as being in a position of

dominance in an era of the anthropocene; But we are not in control; A situation of complexity where we need to slow

down at key points? And speed up changes in economic priorities, state

policies, and better management?

And yet mega-resorts - Hainan Island - China - tourism, growth, and environmental change

*http://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2010/apr/23/china-golf-courses-hainan

http://blog.euromonitor.com/2014/05/hainan-province-one-of-the-fastest-growing-travel-and-tourism-economies.html

Session objectivesUpon completion of this lecture, you should be able to:Upon completion of this lecture, you should be able to: Understand the main components of the tourism

system; be able to outline the differing aspects of the tourism

system; Understand how tourism is embedded within

environments as part of a complex system; How tourism is a hybrid activity - involving orderings

of space to produce it; And how tourism is a hybrid of social-ecological-

technological things all of which are agents of changes;

What is a system?

A system has parts These are interconnected and

interrelated. They are changing all the time -

dynamic; The system is part of society and

environment. All parts influence each other;

The tourism system Six aspects:1- Tourists;2. Traveller-generating regions;3. Tourist-destination regions;4. Transit route regions5. Tourism industries - range of

businesses and organizations involved in delivering the tourism product.

6. The social, technological, legal, ecological context in which the system is embedded;

The Tourism System

A more complex representation of the tourism system

Tourism as a complex-adaptive system?

What are complex adaptive system? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfnY

9gn6ktk&list=UUG0QUKa0MTBzBKiW18AZfTg

How can we apply this to tourism?

Definitions of Tourism Reviewed

Demand-Side Definition Tourism comprises the activities of persons

travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business or other purposes (Holloway and Taylor 2006:6)

The 'Tourist syndrome' Z. Bauman Spatial aspect: Travel outside the individual’s ‘usual

environment’ - international, domestic, excursionist; Modern tourism is a way of being in & of the world

and navigating ourselves around our complicated worlds;

For Bauman the tourist has become a metaphor for modern life;

To be mobile, travelled, connected, but with few ties to a locale is how a successful life is often measured;

'The tourist syndrome', he argues affects how we live in our home places too;

Does this affect how tourists care, or lack care, for places?

Mobilities and Travel Purpose

The globalised worlds we live in are characterized by objects in motion;

People, traded goods, foods, animals, etc.Tourism travel is but one part of wider

movements of people and objects;Tourism travel purposes:Holidays; VFR; Business related;Pilgrimages, spirituality (ashrams), health;Sport, educational study;Others?

Tourism generating regions Governments of generating regions can

also affect tourism, How? Can limit tourism to some places

(Bhutan), ban it, or regulate where people go;

E.g China - Approved Destination Status;

They can facilitate tourism by opening borders, developing systems of travel.

Or provide legal protection - 1990 EU package tourism directive (now revised).

Tourism generating regions

Tourism depends on where we look at it from - arrival or generating regions.

What are the main tourism generating regions?

How might international tourism affect regions people return home to?

Culturally - in terms of wider experiences - food, décor, habits, etc.

Environmentally - more concerned about ecology?

Transit regions / spaces What are transit regions in international

tourism?Transit spaces as anonymous spaces of

supermodernity - Marc Augé;Environmental consequences of transit

spaces?

Socio-political, economic changes and new technologies may change transit spaces;

E.g Foynes in W.Ireland: http://www.flyingboatmuseum.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb3sA-c6i8w

Tourism Industries

What makes up the tourism industries? The tourist industry consists of all those firms,

organisations and facilities which are intended to serve the specific needs and wants of the tourists. (Leiper, 1979:400);

* These are enormously diverse, ranging from accommodation investors; family run hotels;

* Attractions from disneyworld, to cathedrals, museums, landscapes, monuments, and more;

Destination regions / spaces

Destination regions Geographies of destinations changed massively

in the post 1950 period; How and Why? Consumer interest, fashions, lifestyle changes; Technological changes; Active promotional efforts; Destination peoples - consequences of tourism

for them? People in destinations are diverse - some will

benefit, others will bear the consequences more negatively;

How might we understand destination places and their views?

Learning from Anthropology about destinations – Valene Smith

Overview 4Hs of tourism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STUYz3tdf9Q

Habitat as part of the 4Hs of tourism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdYWLNffig

The ‘context’ of tourism Often the context of tourism has not been taken

seriously enough; Environments, politics, social factors, economic

changes always effect tourism; This might be temporarily or permanently; How might tourism be affected by these factors?

Questions What ‘external’ factors of the tourism

system affected tourism from 2008, and how?

What factors have affected tourism in recent years in: a Egypt; b Greece; c Kenya; and in what ways?

Tourism as an ordering

We might begin to see tourism as a system of orderings;

Franklin seeks to show this through looking at the ordering logistical work of Thomas Cook;

He was widely admired by the British Army; Tourism (re)orders places, spaces, cities and

cultures, natures, leaving them changed in specific ways;

Tourism orderings have gradually spread out globally - effecting nearly all places;

The logistics of tourism orderings are immensely complex and require 'translation' of interests to fit within an ordering;

Tourism as an ordering Tourism is often seen as simply a social-economic

activity - business - practice (how it is done); Tourism is a hybrid practice; An assemblage of social, political, economic,

ecological, legal, architectural things; Many tourism orderings start with a plan of how

it should be; And they have consequences - intended and very

often unintended ones; One ordering intersects with other orderings

which transforms them both; Often small interventions in one system affect

other systems

Tourism ordering - Cancun Planned and begun as a new Miami style resort

in Mexico in 1968 - opened 1974; In Quintano Roo - new state in SE Mexico - as a

tax revenue source for the state; Planned as an integrated resort for luxury

tourists; With local agriculture supplying food, local use of

labour... But the ordering did not work easily: Agriculture failed; hurricane 1988; price

reductions - budget tourism; pollution;

Questions Focus on a destination you know; How might tourism be seen as a hybrid

form of development involving social, political, economic and environmental reorderings to make it?

Can you think of other orderings that this development intersected with?

Environment and Tourism as ordering

if negative environmental impacts are a result of a particular ordering then minimising them requires reorderings;

This can be done through better environmental management;

And this requires other changes to the system of tourism;