Sectors of Tourism
Trade Shows/Market Place
Special Events
Meetings/Conferences
Conventions
Festivals
Fairs & Exhibitions
What are Events & Conferences?
A model that outlines how local residents' attitudes toward tourism change as the number of visitors to a destination increases.
What is Doxey's Irritation Index?
This organization is responsible for promoting a destination, coordinating tourism efforts, and attracting visitors, often working to enhance the local economy and manage the destination's brand.
What is a Destination Marketing Organization (DMO)?
To prevent issues like overcrowding and local resentment often seen in heavily visited destinations, communities can involve residents in tourism planning through strategies such as creating advisory boards, conducting surveys, or hosting town hall meetings.
What is community engagement in tourism planning?
Outdoor activities that present the participant with risk and challenge. Adventure tourism is divided into two types: hard adventure and soft adventure.
Air Carriers
Railways
Cruise Lines
Car Rentals
Taxis
Gas Stations
What is transportation?
This five-tier model of human motivation, created by Abraham Maslow, suggests that people must fulfill basic needs like food and safety before achieving higher-level desires such as self-esteem and self-actualization.
What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
This Assn.'s purpose is to speak and act on behalf of their members, to guide and develop best practices in the areas of sustainability and safety, and to promote the growth of the helicat sector in a way that is economically, environmentally and socially responsible.
What is HeliCat Canada?
This strategy involves limiting the number of visitors to a destination at any given time, often through permits or reservations, to prevent over-tourism and protect local resources.
What is visitor caps or capacity management?
One of the six tourism regions designated by Destination British Columbia, this region is a vast wilderness of rivers, lakes, waterfalls, beaches, mineral hot springs, alpine meadows, and snow-capped mountains. This area is also home to wonderfully restored heritage towns, thriving arts communities, and gold rush boomtowns.
What is the Kootenay-Rockies?
Amusement/Recreation Parks
Museums/Galleries
Heritage/Historical Sites
Parks/Gardens
Interpretive Centres
What are Attractions?
Exploration --> Involvement --> Development --> Consolidation --> Stagnation then either Decline or Rejuvenation
What is Butler's Destination Lifecycle?
In these two industry altering events, there were 13 fatalities during a canoe trip and 7 fatalities during a backcountry ski trip.
What are the Lake Temiskaming and Strathcona Tweedsmuir incidents?
This approach encourages tourists to engage with local cultures through activities like guided tours, cultural workshops, or homestays, while ensuring that the economic benefits of tourism are distributed fairly among local communities.
What is promoting responsible cultural exchange and equitable economic distribution in adventure tourism?
Identified by their distinctive, blue-and-yellow logo, these provide a wide range of visitor services, including professional visitor counselling, helpful travel information and literature, and accommodation reservations.
What are Visitor Centres?
Travel Agencies
Tour Wholesalers
Tour Operators
Tour Guides
What are travel (trade) services?
According to Plog's typology of tourists, this tourist seeks unique, adventurous, and novel travel experiences, often in less commercialized or more remote destinations.
What is an Allocentric?
This Assn.'s mission is to encourage and educate people to recreate safely in the winter backcountry by developing, coordinating, promoting, and delivering world-class public avalanche safety programs and services in Canada.
What is Avalanche Canada?
This cognitive skill involves analyzing information, evaluating different perspectives, and making reasoned decisions, often used to solve complex problems or assess the validity of arguments.
What is critical thinking?
This national tourism marketing organizatio's vision is to compel the world to explore Canada. Along with partners in the tourism industry and all levels of government, it advertises and markets Canada in ten countries around the world, conducts industry research and studies, and promotes product and industry development.
What is destination Canada?
Ski Resorts
Golf/Tennis Facilities
Parks
Fishing Facilities
Hunting Facilities
What are Adventure Tourism & Outdoor Recreation?
In their 1995 study, McIntosh, Goeldner, and Ritchie identified four categories of motivation that influence why people travel. These categories include cultural, interpersonal, status, and this category, which focuses on the desire for relaxation and escape.
What is physical?
This industry has been operating within BC and globally for up to 50 years, and while it has periods of decline, it certainly continues to exist as a core member of the adventure sector. Base operations are often located in rural, mountainous communities and bring economic diversification where it is badly needed.
What is the Whitewater Rafting Industry?
This type of tourism challenge occurs when a destination's popularity leads to overcrowding, strain on infrastructure, and local residents' dissatisfaction, prompting actions like tourist caps and regulations on accommodations.
What is Overtourism?
This type of tourism covers a wide variety of recreational, educational and other leisure activities and services, provided by farmers and ranchers and experienced by consumers who value the activity or service they receive and seek it out.
What is Agritourism?