Vocabulary
The total monetary value of all goods and services produced and sold within a country during a specific time period.
What does GDP mean?
The condition of not having access to sufficient food, or food of an adequate quality, to meet one's basic needs.
What is food insecurity?
Gender, age, race, disability
What are some things that impact our perception of place?
Someone who arranges their own trip, may go off the beaten track
What is an "explorer" tourist?
the capacity of environment to support our lives or other life forms.
What is sustainability?
What is overtourism?
Occurs when the body doesn't get enough nutrients.
What does malnourished mean?
More disposable income, faster and cheaper travel options, annual leave
Why are more young people travelling?
the way geographical phenomena and problems can be explained at different levels. Can be from local, regional, nation or global.
What is scale?
The basic systems and services, such as transport and power supplies, that a country or organization uses in order to work effectively
What is infrastructure?
Water scarcity, climate change, war, conflict over land
What are the reasons for food insecurity?
The idea that everyone, regardless of disability, is able to enter and interact with a place
What is accessibility?
Travelling overseas for medical care and procedures
What is medical tourism?
the significance of a location, spacial distribution and the way people organise/manage the space (area) they live in.
What does space mean?
What is ecotourism?
Buy only what you need, donate left over food, store food wisely, buy "ugly" fruit and vegetables.
How can we minimise food waste?
Damage to the environment, damage to local cultures and exploits locals
What are some negative impacts of tourism?
Braybrook College for some students is a place they go to learn, for others it is their chance to spend time with friends. For staff it is a place of work, but a librarian and a cleaner see different parts of the school
Give some examples of place
the gulf between those who have ready access to computers and the internet, and those who do not.
What is the digital divide?
Providing direct aid, capacity building (providing training on better agricultural practices, etc)
How can developed help developing countries achieve food security?
Charging fees for day trips, limiting cruise passengers, promoting ecotourism
What are some ways to prevent overtourism?
This concept relates to the idea that people and things are connected to other people and things in their own and other places, and understanding these connections helps us to understand how and why places are changing.
What is interconnection?