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Define tourism.
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Travel away from home for **leisure, recreation or business**, staying at least one night.
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How much has international tourism grown?
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From about **25 million** trips in 1950 to over a **billion** international arrivals a year today.
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Define international arrivals.
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The number of visitors **crossing a border** into a country each year.
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Define a tourist hotspot.
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A destination that attracts **very large** visitor numbers (a city, resort or honeypot site).
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How do you find the range of a data set?
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**Highest value minus the lowest value** — the spread of the data.
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How do you find the median of a ranked list?
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The **middle value** once the data is ordered (with 9 values, the 5th; with an even count, average the two middle values).
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On a line graph, what is the steepest segment?
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The period of **fastest growth** — the biggest jump in visitor numbers between two years.
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How does social media raise visitor numbers?
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Reviews/influencers raise **awareness** -> a place looks 'must-see' -> easy booking turns interest into trips -> arrivals **surge**.
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Name two drivers of tourism growth.
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**Cheaper air travel** and **rising incomes** (also more leisure time, technology, social media and mega-events).
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What can reverse tourism growth?
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**Shocks** — recessions, conflict, disease outbreaks and travel bans cut arrivals sharply.
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Why is Dubai a tourism-growth case study?
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It grew into a hotspot via an **airline hub** (Emirates), attractions and heavy **marketing** — engineered growth.
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What is carrying capacity in tourism?
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The most visitors a place can take before the **experience or environment** is damaged (e.g. Venice, the Lake District).
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