Option: Leisure, Sports, and Tourism – IB Global Politics HL
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Option: leisure, sports and tourism
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Definitions: - Reasons for the increase in leisure time
- How income, health and age shape participation in leisure
- The shift away from traditional culture
- Time spent engaged in screen-based activities
- How level of economic development affects participation in sport
- Classification of tourist activities
- Economic Development and Leisure
- Case Study: Growth of Tourism in Mexico and Sweden
- Variations in the demand for tourist destinations [Reasons]
- The Family Life Cycle
- How does changes in the family life cycle affect participation in sport and tourism?
- Primary vs Secondary Tourist Resources
- Rural and Urban tourist hotspots
- Factors affecting the growth of tourist hotspots
- Definitions
- Variations in tourist destinations SOI (appeal, awareness, affordability, accessibility)
- Variations in the sphere of influence at different levels of the leisure hierarchy
- Intra-urban spatial patterns
- Costs and benefits of large scale sporting, musical, cultural or religious festivals as temporary leisure sites
- Factors affecting the geography of a national sports league
- Niche Tourism
- Example 1 – Movie Location Tourism in New Zealand
- Example 2 – Movie Location Tourism in Iceland
- The role of TNCs in exploring tourist destinations
- Importance of TNCs in expanding international tourist destinations
- Advantages of TNCs over smaller operators
- TNC hotel chains operating using many brands
- How TNC operation in tourism positively and negatively affects various stakeholders
- Tourism as a National Development Strategy (General advantages and disadvantages)
- Case Study 1: Tourism as a national development strategy in Turkmenistan (SEEP factors)
- Case Study 2: Tourism in the Maldives
- International Sporting Events
- Case Study 1: London 2012 Olympics
- Case Study 2: Rio 2016
- Unsustainable Tourism
- Case Study 1: Angkor World Heritage Site, Cambodia
- Case Study 2: Unsustainable tourism in Venice, Italy
- Sustainable Tourism
- Case Study 1: Machu Picchu (also a form of Heritage Tourism)
- Case Study 2: Unsustainable tourism in Venice, Italy
- Sustainable Tourism
- Case Study 1: Machu Picchu (also a form of Heritage Tourism)
- Case Study 2: Everest Base Camp, Nepal
- Ecotourism
- Case Study 1: Ecotourism in the Falkland Islands
- Case Study 2: Ecotourism in the Monteverde Cloud Forest
- Political and cultural influences on international sport participation
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