PC4+Tourism,+a+global+industry

What is a Tourist
====The World Tourism Organization defines **tourists** as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes". (WIKIPEDIA)====

=Tourism in Switzerland:=

Skiing:
Luxury Chalet in Verbier:



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The Environmental and Social impact of the Ski Industry
A history of Verbier. The environmental impact of ski resorts.

Culture:
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Shopping
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Benidorm today:
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Benidorm in 1925:
====**Benidorm** has more than 130 hotels, with 30,000 swimming pools across the resort. Dry almost all year round Benidorm depends on extracting water stored underground. As its level drops, seawater creeps in poisoning surrounding farmland. Water is being removed from aquifers 2 or 3 times faster than it can be replenished (Dr Jose Luis Rubio, European Society for Soil and Water Conservation). A single golf course in the area consumes as much water as a town of 10,000 people in the area (Xavier Font, Leeds Metropolitan University)==== //source// [|www.responsibletravel.com]

=Tourism in Gambia=

Gambia for the tourists:
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**1)** Describe the location of the Gambia in a much detail as you can.
====**2)** Use this page from the BBC weather centre to describe the climate of the Gambia. Include information such as average temperature, hottest and coldest month, temperature range, wettest and driest month, average rainfall. What climatic region is the Gambia in? (eg polar, temperate, tropical desert.....)====

====**3)** Why do tourists visit the Gambia? Make a brainstorm (spider diagram) showing the reasons that people visit the Gambia. Once you have added as many reasons as you can, you should highlight all the physcial attractions in one colour and the cultural ones in another colour. The Gambian Tourist Board website is a good place to find information to answer this.====

Gambia for many of the Gambian people:
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Sustainable Tourism and Eco Tourism
Your next ECO TOUR starts here. Sustainable Tourism and Eco Tourism activity from geogrpahyalltheway.com





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