TR6212 Class Lecture Material from Ajarn Scott

1. How Many, How much, How Long Where and When

3. WTO Definition of Tourism Tourism comprises the activities of persons traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes.

5. Visitor A “visitor” is defined as those persons who travel to a country other than that in which they have their usual residence but outside their usual environment for a period not exceeding twelve months and whose main purpose of visit is other than the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited.

7. Classification of Travelers

20. Educational Tourism – for example, l earn a language in the country where it is spoken.

32. Part of the human condition is the grim fascination with horror and atrocity. Jack the Ripper’s first Victim – London, Whitechapel's Buck's Row just before four in the morning Friday, August 31, 1888

34. Pyramids in Egypt

37. When did 'tourists' start visiting the ruins of Pompeii?

48. Questions of taste and sanctity. Ex. The following of the final route of Princess Diana in a black Mercedes S-class through the streets of Paris.

54. Auschwitz, in the suburbs of Oswiecim, Poland, was a complex of three concentration camps, Auschwitz I for death, II for slave labor, and III for transport. It was the scene of one of the world’s greatest tragedies, the mass genocide of over one million Poles, European Jews, and Roma people (the gypsies) in the darkest years of WWII More than 700,000 people tour Auschwitz every year.

57. 45 000 died on the first day and a further 19 000 during the subsequent four months. Melted Sake Bottles

58. Student Uniform Akio Tsukuda (13 at the time) was engaged in fire prevention work about 800 meters from the hypocenter. His father found his school uniform hanging on a branch of a tree on August 8, 1945. His body was not found

59. Aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese City of Hiroshima. Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington DC.

62. Chernobyl

64. What future for the Chernobyl nuclear plant? Scientists believe that more than 90% of the radiation potential from Chernobyl still remains, buried under the steel and concrete sarcophagus. This casing will have to be replaced soon, as the old one is starting to disintegrate. What's left buried amounts to around 190 tonnes of uranium and 1 tonne of plutonium. This part of the site will remain radioactive for an estimated 100,000 years. The Chernobyl legacy will remain for countless generations.

66. It is believed that the Chernobyl disaster area 'attracts' in excess of 3,000 people every year. Is this travel and tourism activity ethically correct? What are the motivations of these consumers of 'dark tourism'? What benefits are to be gained from increasing tourist activity in the region?

67. Choeung Ek commemorative stupa filled with skulls

70. Bali bombing