HSC Geography/People and Economic Activity

global economic activity a description of the nature, spatial patterns and future directions of ONE economic activity in a global context. The economic activity selected can be from a wide range of activities such as wheat farming, hydroponics, viticulture, textiles, tourism, advertising, retailing, wholesaling, information technologies, financial and business services industries factors explaining the nature, spatial patterns and future directions of the selected economic activity such as biophysical: climate, soils, topography, site ecological: sustainability and resource use economic: competitive advantage, consumer demand, mobility of labor and capital sociocultural: tradition, changing lifestyles, labor participation rates organizational: ownership, decision making and control technological: transportation, information transmission and flows, biotechnology political: quotas, tariffs, compacts, agreements the environmental, social and economic impacts of the economic activity such as pollution, resource depletion, labor exploitation, cultural integration, provision of infrastructure, job creation, transfer pricing. Tourism as an Economic Activity Nature of Tourism Defining Tourism Forms of Tourism International Tourism Domestic Tourism The Global Pattern of Tourism Factors Affecting Tourism The Biophysical and Built Environment Technological Change Social Influences Economic Factors Cultural Influences Political Influences The Relationship Between Production and Consumption The Changing Nature of the Production Process Internationalization of Tourism Organizational Developments Changing Consumer Products and Markets The Impacts of Changing Patterns of Consumption The Evolving Tourism Product Package Tours Small Group Tours Individual Travel Adventure Travel Cultural and Environmental Travel Rural Tourism Growing Market Diversity Changes in Ownership, Decision-Making and Control Increasing the Scale of Production Horizontal and Vertical Integration Transnational Operations Data Gathering and Industry Support Technological Change Consumer Choice Transport Technologies Aircraft Land Transport Sea Transport Keeping Track of People and Possessions Enhancing the Tourist's experience Political and Economic Factors The Changing Political and Economic Environment The Nature of Government Involvement Tourism Promotion Facilitating Visitor Entry Transport Policy Regulation and Control General Economic Policy Issues Surrounding the Future of Tourism as an Economic Activity Tourism and the Environment Social Impacts of Tourism What of the Future? local case study a geographical study of an economic enterprise operating at a local scale. The business could be an individual enterprise, firm or company such as a family farm, a mine or mining corporation, a hotel, chain of hotels, heritage or tourist site. The case study should explore the nature of the economic enterprise locational factors ecological dimensions including environmental constraints, climate, and human impacts on the environment such as pollution and ecological sustainability internal and external linkages and flows of people, goods, services and ideas effects of global changes in the economic activity on the enterprise.