Urban Tourism

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Urban Tourism

• Travel and Tourism
• Lester B Pearson High School

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Definitions

• World Class Cities Centers of global economic
  activity, power and wealth. Home of larger
  corporation headquarters and financial
  institutions.
• i.e. New York City

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Key Factors for World Class Cities

• Factors for making a city world class are broken
  down into four categories
• Economic world financial centre, has a stock
  market
• Political large diverse population , involved
  with world organizations
• Cultural renown cultural institutions and
  events, media sporting outlets
• Infrastructure major international airport,
  prominent skyline , subway
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Map of World Class Cities
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Definitions

• Urban Tourism tourism to an urban area for the
  purpose if experiencing all that the city has to
  offer.

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Urban Tourism What attracts visitors to cities?

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v36cOCfsSpGk

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Key Elements for Attracting Urban Tourists

• Primary Elements
• Tourist Activity Places Cultural, Sports, and
  Amusement facilities
• Tourist Environment Physical structure of city,
  Socio-cultural features
• Secondary Elements
• Accommodations , Shopping , Accessibility,
  Transportation, and Tourism Information

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Worlds Best Shopping Districts

• Typically street-side shopping areas
• Distinguished by the number of designer label
  boutiques (ex. Prada), Haute couture fashion
  houses (ex. Burberry)

http//opentravel.com/blogs/10-best-shopping-desti
nations-around-the-world/
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Worlds Best Shopping Districts

• Ginza District, Tokyo, Japan
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?venmZ-s4b5to
• Milan Fashion District, Milan, Italy
• Champs Elysees, Paris, France
• Bond St. Oxford St., London , England
• Calle Serrano, Madrid, Spain
• Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, China
• Dubai Mall, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Madison and 5th Avenue, New York, USA
• Rodeo Drive, Los Angeles, USA
• GUM Tverskaya Street, Moscow, Russia

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Your Independent Task

1. Choose a world class city from the list
   provided, and find the matching travel guide for
   that city.
2. Using the provided worksheet, search for the
   information about this citys best shopping
   places, hotel, restaurant and top sight seeing
   locations.