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Tourist | a person who is travelling or visiting a place for pleasure. |
Attraction | A tourist attraction is a place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its inherent or an exhibited natural or cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, offering leisure and amusement. |
Sustainable Tourism | Tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities” |
VFR | VFR travel is a form of travel involving a visit whereby either (or both) the purpose of the trip or the type of accommodation involves visiting friends and / or relatives" |
Mass Tourism | Mass tourism is a form of tourism that involves tens of thousands of people going to the same resort often at the same time of year. |
Global Fashion | Global fashion is when different parts of the clothing are being made in different countries because it is cheap. This encourages countries to interact. |
Globalisation | is the process by which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected as a result of massively increased trade and cultural exchange. |
Transnational Company (TNC) | is a huge company that does business in several countries. E.g Nike or Coca Cola. They have their headquarters in HIC and use LIC’s for resources and manufacturing. |
Rana Plaza | The 2013 Dhaka garment factory collapse (also referred to as the 2013 Savar building collapse or the Rana Plaza collapse) |
GDP | Gross Domestic Product—the total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during one year. |
The circular movement of the mantle caused by heat from the earths core. | The circular movement of the mantle caused by heat from the earths core. |
Plate boundary | the location at which two tectonic plates meet |
Tectonic plate | An oceanic or continental mass of crust which moves on the surface of the earth |
Crust | Very thin outer rocky shell of the earth comprised of thicker and less dense continental (land) and thinner and more dense oceanic crust |
Richter scale | A numerical scale which shows the magnitude of an earthquake based on vibrations from the earth |
Primary Data | data that you have personally collected eg. EQS or Beach profile |
Secondary Data | data that has been collected from someone else eg. house prices or wind direction. |
Data presentation | how you display your data in a visual format e.g. Line graphs for a beach profile |
Data Analysis | how you break down the different data sets and compare them to identify trends or findings relevant to your aim. It can be done numerically, for example looking at the median rate of long shore drift. |
Evaluation | you critically appraise the usefulness and accuracy of your methods and the certainty of your findings in your investigation. |
Conclusion | Do you accept or reject your initial hypothesis based on the evidence you have collected? |
colonialism | the policy of acquiring other countries to rule as colonies |
infrastructure | – communication links and utilities, e.g. roads, electricity |
life expectancy | – the average age a person is likely to reach |
literacy rate | the percentage of people aged 15 and over who can read and write |
Human Development Index (HDI) | a way of measuring a country’s development, scoring from 0.000 to 1 |
Conflict | Conflict geography studies the distribution of conflicting interests over space. ... This aspect of geography considers the causes of conflict, the ways in which conflict may manifest itself, the impacts of conflict, and how conflict may be resolved. |
Climate Change | Climate change is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth's local, regional and global climates. |
Geopolitics | Geopolitics is a study of interest which focuses on factors such as; geography, economics, and demography of policy and foreign policy of a state, country or region. |
Middle East | The Middle East is a geopolitical term that commonly refers to the region spanning the Levant, Arabian Peninsula, Anatolia, Egypt, Iran and Iraq. |
Hydropolitics | The politics of allocating and managing water resources, particularly between countries. |