Deck 17: Culture Change Through Teamwork

Question 1

According to Forster (1964), tourism is

A)A social experience
B)A unique experience
C)A social event
D)A holiday

Answer 1

A social event

Question 2

Select the incorrect answer. Zaidan et al.'s (2016) study of the United Arab Emirates highlighted concerns among the local community about tourism and:

A)Religion
B)Globalisation
C)Culture
D)Ethnicity

Answer 2

Globalisation

Question 3

Tourism was described as a sociocultural event by which author?

A)Murphy
B)Lea
C)Cohen
D)Williams

Answer 3

Murphy

Question 4

According to Sharpley (1994), the following factors shape the sociocultural effects of tourism, except for:

A)Type and number of tourists
B)Seasonality
C)Size and stage of development of the tourism industry
D)Pace of tourism development

Question 5

MacNeil and Woznick's (2018) analysis of cruise tourism development in Honduras identified the following impacts upon the local community, with the exception of:

A)Loss of land by indigenous people
B)An increase in protest
C)A rise in sewage and the dumping of waste
D)An increase in direct benefits to the local community

Question 6

The study of culture in tourism is most often undertaken from

A)An anthropological perspective
B)A tourism perspective
C)A sociological perspective
D)A geographical perspective

Question 7

Which is the incorrect answer? Deery et al (2012) identified the following areas of empirical research in the study of sociocultural impacts of tourism

A)Religious behaviour
B)Disruption
C)Enhancements to local economic development
D)Inflationary effects

Question 8

Bloch's (2016, 2017) studies of Hampi in India highlighted

A)How local farmers as entrepreneurs were evicted from the site
B)How local residents were not consulted about the creation of a living museum on the site
C)How the bazaar was demolished
D)How the local community were ignored by the development process

Question 9

Bott's (2018) study of ethnic women in North Vietnam highlighted…

A)How ethnic women were commodified in advertising by tourism companies
B)Inequality of the poverty relationship between visitors and local women
C)That tourists expected to be able to gaze upon ethnic women at work
D)That tourists are sensitive to local culture