1. What is tourism? Why are there so many definitions of tourism? (lecture 1, slide 7. Lecture 2, slide 5)

Involves temporary travel away from an individual’s home environment, exposing individuals to activities and places that are different and unusual.

Purposes include leisure and recreation, visiting friends and relatives, business, sport, education, health, spirituality.

Tourism - The sum of the processes, activities, and outcomes arising from the relationships and the interactions among tourists, tourism suppliers, host government, host communities, and surrounding environments that are involved in the attracting, transporting, hosting and management of tourists and other visitors.

2. Discuss the evolution of tourism studies. What is the historical sequence of tourism platforms of research? (Lecture 2, slide 15-16)

* Adaptancy platform - A follow-up on the cautionary platform that argues for alternative forms of tourism deemed to be better adapted to local communities than mass tourism.

* Cautionary platform - A reaction to the advocacy platform that stresses the negative impacts of tourism and the consequent need for strict regulation.

* Advocacy platform - The view that tourism is an inherent benefit to communities that should be developed under free market principles.

* Knowledge-based platform - The most recent dominant perspective in tourism studies, arising from the sustainability discourse and emphasising ideological neutrality and the application of rigorous scientific methods to generate knowledge so that communities can decide whether large-or small-scale tourism is most appropriate.

3. Explain the relevance of a systems approach to tourism studies.

A system approach treats the tourism sector as a single phenomenon whose parts are all inter-related an inter-dependent.

This concept can be extended beyond