How physical and human factors shape places into sites of leisure
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Human and physical factors explaining the growth of rural and urban tourism hotspots including the role of primary and secondary touristic resources
Variations in sphere of influence for different kinds of sporting and touristic facility, including neighbourhood parks and gyms, city stadiums and national parks Factors affecting the geography of a national sports league, including the location of its hierarchy of teams and the distribution of supporters
Large-scale sporting, musical, cultural or religious festivals as temporary sites of leisure and their associated costs and benefits
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What is a tourism hotspot?
Tourism hotspots are places that experience high levels of tourist arrivals. These places can also be called tourist honeypots. The term honeypot usually refers to a small area such as a village in a national park, while hotspots operate at a variety of scales from small villages to entire regions. Hotspots exist in places such as:
In addition, these places must be:
Tourism hotspots usually have a very large number of visits at the same time. This can lead to seasonal hotspots and diurnal hotspots. Seasonal hotspots have high levels of tourism at specific times of year, such as the summer months when Spanish beaches become very busy. On the graph below, the level of tourism is very low outside the warm summer months but reaches a rapid peak as tourists arrive for summer holidays from other countries. |
Watch the videos and note down the specific factors and locations that make these examples hotspots at a range of scales.
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Diurnal hotspots have high levels of visitors at certain times of day, such as day trippers who visit Venice. The city receives many tourists during the middle of the day and far fewer in the morning or late afternoon as people return to their cruise ships for the evening. The number of tourists peaks in the middle of the day as tourists arrive and gradually leave after lunch.