HTM 230

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HTM 230

• Intro

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Syllabus
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Seating Chart
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Travel Geography
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Topography

• Physical Geography
• Landforms
• Continents
• Oceans
• Rivers
• Mountains

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Continents
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Climate

• Season
• Altitude
• Winds
• Ocean Currents

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Ocean Currents
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TIME

• 24 hour clock
• 700 a.m. 0700
• 1125 a.m. 1125
• noon 1200
• 100 p.m. 1300
• 930 p.m. 2130
• midnight 0000

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Time zones

• Before railroads, each town had its own time (sun
  dial)
• Railroads needed to comply with a standard
  schedule
• 1884, nations agreed to 24 time zones
• Greenwich England is reference point GMT Zulu
  time
• Other areas are - from GMT TIME ZONE MAP
• HNL is -11
• China --- 3 time zones, all Beijing
• India --- 2 time zones (5, 6), avg. 530
• Daylight Savings Time

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Time Zones
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International Date Line

• In the Pacific
• Westward travel 1 day --- Tue becomes Wed
• Eastward travel - 1 day --- Sat becomes Fri
• Time remains the same
• Example
• Leave HNL for Tokyo _at_ 11 p.m.. on Wed.
• 1 hr --- its Thurs.
• 1 more hr --- cross dateline --- its Fri.
• Therefore, leave on Wed., arrive on Fri. --- 9
  hr. trip.

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Great Circle Routes

• Flat map distortion
• NYC -- Paris -- Moscow 15 hrs.
• NYC -- Helsinki -- Moscow 12 hrs.

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Great Circle Routes
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Destinations

• A location that travelers choose to visit.
• Hawaii
• Paris
• China

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Attractions

• A thing that draws visitors to a destination.
• PCC
• The Louvre
• The Great Wall
• Walt Disney World?

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Types of Attractions

• Historic
• Natural Scenic
• Cultural
• Recreational

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Travel Geography
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Travel Geography
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Travel Geography
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Infrastructure

• Airports
• Highways
• Sewers
• Hotels
• Golf Courses
• Built Attractions