Locating tourism and sport facilities
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Define site (tourism facility).
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The **actual ground** a facility occupies — flat land, snow slopes, a coast, a river bank.
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Define situation (tourism facility).
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Its **position relative to** roads, cities, airports and the people it serves.
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What is accessibility in locating a facility?
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How **easily visitors can reach it** — by road, rail, air and parking.
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Define carrying capacity.
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The number of **visitors a site can take** before quality or the environment suffers.
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What is a honeypot / hotspot?
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A place that attracts **very large numbers of tourists** into a small area.
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Two physical factors that attract tourism?
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Relief/snow and climate (also scenery, water and a large carrying-capacity site).
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Two human factors that grow tourism?
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Accessibility and investment (also marketing/image and cheap land).
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Why is London 2012 (Stratford) a good location example?
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A cheap, well-connected **brownfield** site — **accessibility** and land availability were the deciding human factors.
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Why is Venice an overtourism case study?
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Its physical lagoon site made it a honeypot, but mass tourism now overwhelms its tiny **carrying capacity**.
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Why is Dubai a human-factor case study?
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Almost no physical pull — **investment**, airports and marketing built a tourism hotspot from human factors alone.
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How do you score an Outline [2] on location?
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Name a factor (1) + **develop** how it shapes that facility's location (1).
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What does a top [10] Examine answer need?
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Both sides developed, **named case studies**, accurate terms and a **justified judgement** weighing the factors.
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Tourism and sport at the local and national scale
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