6.
Why are geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, and economists in-
terested in tourism?
Geographers
should be interested in Tourism because they study location,
therefore they can tack the movements of people created by tourism locales,
view changes that tourism brings to the landscape, watch dispersion of
tourism development as well as physical planning, economic, social and cul-
tural problems.
Sociologists
should be interested because they study the tourism behavior of
individuals and groups of people and how they impact tourism.
Anthropologist
study cultural heritage and heritage tourism since everyone
travels for different reasons it is important to research and see how to pro-
mote/ market traveling for different types of people.
Economists
focus on supply and demand, balance of payments, foreign ex-
change, employment expenditures, development and other economic factors
which is the framework for analyzing tourism.
7.
What will the tourism industry be like in the year 2020? 2030?
According to Tourism 2020 Vision international arrivals will exceed 1.6 billion
by 2020 and to continue to grow after that
8.
How can an industry that contributes 9.2% of global gross domestic
