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Name: Module 2 Assignment
Reflections on Tourism’s Growth and Development
The purpose of this assignment is for you to think deeply about issues affecting human mobility and travel, as well as the physical growth of tourism.
After reviewing both sets of Module 2 PowerPoints, answer the following questions (Provide thoughtful and provoking answers. Your grade will be based not on facts but on the way you argue your positions and the logic you use (for example in Question 3). Single spaced writing is preferred).
1)
The United Nations believes that travel (human mobility) is an essential human right, that people should be able to travel the world for work or leisure. Do you believe it is a basic human right, such as the right to freedom from forced labor and the right to freedom of thought and speech? If yes, please explain. If no, please explain. (
One or two paragraphs, this question is seeking your INFORMED opinion, which should be explained or justified with a good argument and/or cited sources. If you cite sources, you can use any referencing style you want, but APA is preferred
). I do side with the idea that human mobility is an essential human right. I believe that human mobility is parallel to the freedom of speech in regards that if you want to say something you have the right to say it, I believe that if a person were to have the desire to see a place that it should be a basic human right that they should be allowed to. I also believe that travel offers the best form of informal/ formal education that a person can receive, and the right to an education is a basic human right. There is a interview with Bryan Cranston about his thoughts on travel and I think that he has a really good take on it, he says, “Traveling forces you to be social, you have to get directions, you have to learn where things are. You’re attuned to your environment, you have to be more aware about the weather, and where your lodging is going to be… it’s an experience like no other.” I think this take shows that travel is an essential aspect of life because it teaches people some of the basics that they can apply to their everyday lives beyond their adventures. Youtube link to the interview (snippet) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEObTCWI0To
2)
Explain briefly (one paragraph) how modern technology has affected travel for you and your generation versus the generation of your parents. What are five ways in which travel has changed over the last quarter century? You could even interview a parent if you want to. (
One paragraph, this question will require reflection and a little background work. Again, a solid argument is required. If you cite sources, you can use any refereeing style, but APA is preferred).
I think that modern technology has really impacted my travel in a positive manner. For starters, I use the internet to find some of the top things to do wherever I may be going and there are many websites that really give you some of the best things you can do that are not always tourist traps, I prefer reddit to be honest because you get a plethora of opinions of what people like to do. I also
use Instagram to see what hostels people have stayed at and that has been a saving grace for saving money. One thing that also is Huge would be the ability to buy plane tickets online rather than going to a travel agent like my parents had to do which I recently found out and was blown away about how difficult that would be. I think that modern technology has made spontaneous ventures much more feasible than in years before. One thing that is a huge benefit in today’s travel climate is the ability to use apps like Duolingo to learn a language before you visit, which I used when I was going to France, I was still God awful at French, but it is still a modern advancement that can be used today that my parents didn’t have. I think perhaps my favorite thing that I recently started using is an app called Trip BFF which is an app that allows you to meet
other travelers and create group chats and plan trips with them, it’s a super cool app and makes it less stressful to meet other travelers when you plan on visiting places. I think that modern technology has been actually a revelation to make the idea of traveling to an action that isn’t far-
fetched at all as it was for my parents. 3)
Although the spatial development models described in the second set of Module 2 PPTs might seem a bit boring, they can have important planning implications. If you were a town planner and/or a tourism planner for a community, what insights might Barrett’s model or Stansfield and
Rickert’s model provide as you make decisions about locations, impacts, traffic flow, etc? (
1-2 paragraphs, this question requires reflection, thinking and a bit of background work. Make your answers sensible realistic?
) After looking at the models, I think that if I were a planner of tourist attractions/ implications I would refer more to the model by Stansfield and Rickert I think that the model does a good jo0b of providing more balance to a city or area of high attraction. I like how the CBD is separate to the RBD. I also think that the RBD develops adjacent to the main attractions. I think that further develops the idea of balance within an area. If I were building my city, I think that yes, I would want to have some attraction to bring in tourism, but that isn’t enough to support a community by
itself which I know from my time in Aitutaki. I think that with distance decay it still has the opportunity to have some attractions from the main attraction but this I think would help with traffic flow because it creates just more balance. I think that the most popular and well-designed cities have main attractions as well as smaller attractions. When I think of this, I think of the city of
Barcelona where it has the main attraction of the Sagrada Familia but is the city is so spread out that the city has plenty of other attractions and yet still never felt too busy
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