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IGCSE Travel and Tourism Unit 2 Exam Questions With Revised Answers What is a destination? - answerThe place where a journey finally ends. A physical space in which visitors spend at least one night and is made up of tourism products such as support services and attractions. What are the featu...

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IGCSE Travel and Tourism Unit 2 Exam
Questions With Revised Answers

What is a destination? - answer✔✔The place where a journey finally ends.
A physical space in which visitors spend at least one night and is made up of tourism products
such as support services and attractions.

What are the features of a destination? - answer✔✔1. A character of their own
2. Accessible location
3. Will have a TIC
4. Will have accommodation and catering
5. Will have a range of attractions
6. Will have shopping facilities for the visitor
7. will have enough parking space

What is the product life cycle of a destination? - answer✔✔A cycle of evolution that each
destination will go through

Stage 1 - Exploration stage - answer✔✔Very small tourist numbers and few, if any, tourist
facilities

Stage 2 - Involvement stage - answer✔✔Small numbers of tourists, mainly independent
travellers, with some local facilities being developed

Stage 3 - Development stage - answer✔✔Visitor numbers rising rapidly with an increase in both
foreign and locally owned facilities and the expansion and upgrading of the local infrastructure

Stage 4 - Consolidation stage - answer✔✔Further increases in the number of tourists, with mass
tourism being the largest component. The addition of facilities reaches a peak as carrying
capacity limit is approached

Stage 5 - Stagnation stage - answer✔✔Tourist numbers reach peak and facilities show signs of
age

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Stage 6 - Rejuvenation stage - answer✔✔Tourist numbers rise again due to new innovations and
rebranding of the destination's image

Stage 6 -Decline stage - answer✔✔Mass tourism keeps coming to the destination and the
destination will lose market share and become a very cheap, often party, destination

Reasons why a destination that used to be popular can now decline - answer✔✔1. The carrying
capacity was exceeded
2. the Enviro has been damaged
3. the destination is not longer in fashion
4. Surrounding businesses have closed down

What is a hub airport? - answer✔✔Airline hubs or hub airports are used by one or more airlines
to concentrate passenger traffic and flight operations at a given airport. They serve as transfer (or
stop-over) points to get passengers to their final destination.

How are time zones divided? - answer✔✔The world is divided into 24 time zones each spaced
15 degrees of longitude apart

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) - answer✔✔The time zone that runs through Greenwich at 0
longitude

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) - answer✔✔The time zone at 0 longitude

Daylight Saving Time (DST) - answer✔✔This is when countries change the clock during certain
months of the year. In Western Europe there is GMT during the winter months but the clock is
set forward 1 hour during the summer months (GMT + 1)

International Date Line (IDL) - answer✔✔An imaginary line on the surface of the Earth opposite
the Prime Meridian or Greenwich Meridian where the date changes as one travels east or west
across it. Roughly around 180 ̊ it mostly corresponds to the time zone boundary separating -12
and +12 hours GMT

Equator - answer✔✔An imaginary line drawn around the middle of the Earth an equal distance
from the North Pole and the South Pole

Tropic of Capricorn - answer✔✔The southern tropic (23.5⁰ S)

Tropic of Cancer - answer✔✔The northern tropic (23.5⁰ N)

Latitude - answer✔✔The position north or south of the equator measured from 0° to 90°

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