Leisure, Sport and Tourism Definitions

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Leisure
any chosen activity or experience that takes place in non-work time
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Recreation
A leisure activity undertaken voluntarily and for enjoyment. It includes individual pursuits, organised outings and events, and non-paid sports.
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Sport
A physical activity involving events and competitions at a national and international scale involving a set of rules and customs. The activity may be competitive.
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Tourism
Travel away from home for at least one night for the purpose of leisure. This excludes day trips.
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Ecotourism
Tourism focused on the natural environment and local communities. Responsible travel to fragile, pristine, and usually protected areas that strive to be low impact and (often) small scale.
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Heritage or Cultural Tourism
Tourism where the purpose is to experience and visit the places, artefacts and activities that authentically represent the stories and people of the past and present.
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Sustainable tourism
Sustainable tourism is tourism attempting to make a low impact on the environment and local culture, while helping to generate future employment for local people.
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Honeypot location
A destination that attracts a large number of visitors.
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Carrying Capacity
The maximum number of people that may visit a tourist destination at the same time, without causing damage to the physical, economic and socio-cultural environments and an unacceptable decrease in the quality of visitors' satisfaction.
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Environmental carrying capacity
The maximum number of visitors before environmental harm is done.
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Perceptual carrying capacity
The maximum number of visitors before visitors consider an impact like noise to be excessive.
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Primary Tourist Resources
Pre-existing attractions for tourism and leisure. They have not been built specifically for tourism and include the weather, scenery, wildlife, indigenous people and heritage and cultural sites.
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Secondary Tourist Resources
Facilities that have been built specifically for tourism and leisure e.g. accommodation, restaurants and shopping centres.
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FDI
Foreign direct investment. Money spent in a country by a foreign company or country.
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Economic leakage
Money that is generated in a country, but then leaves the country. This normally happens when there are a large number of TNCs, removing money and sending it back to their home country.
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Infrastructure
A country's or business's basic underlying structure and framework e.g. the buildings, transport and electricity and water supply.
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Urban areas
The built up area - normally a settlement with more than 10,000 people is considered to be an urban area.
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Affluence
The amount of money people have to spend.
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Regeneration
Improving an area that has been experiencing a period of decline.
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Renewal or Redevelopment
When areas are rebuilt to improve the physical environment. Redevelopment might involve changing the main functions of areas.
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Deindustrialisation
The process of factories closing down. Factories normally close down because demand for products has dropped or production costs have increased. Most factories that have closed because of rising costs have relocated to cheaper locations abroad.
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Offshoring
The process of factories moving to cheaper locations overseas. The new locations are often in LEDCs or NICs where labour, land, energy, etc. is cheaper and therefore reduces production costs.
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Gentrification
The process of an area being improved by the people that live there.
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Disinvestment
When people are taking their investment away from and area. This might be shops closing down and relocating somewhere else.
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Derelict
Buildings or areas of land that have been abandoned and are no longer used.
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Brownfield Sites
Areas of land that have been previously built-on.
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Social Sustainability
Social sustainability means benefiting local people long-term. This might be done through infrastructure improvements, provision of affordable housing or job creation.
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Economic Sustainability
Economic sustainability means benefiting the economy long term. It might mean increasing the income of an area, keeping inflation low or eliminating debt.
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Environmental Sustainability
Environmental sustainability means reducing the impact on the environment. It might be using renewable energy, developing public transport or reforesting areas.
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A leisure activity undertaken voluntarily and for enjoyment. It includes individual pursuits, organised outings and events, and non-paid sports.

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Recreation

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A physical activity involving events and competitions at a national and international scale involving a set of rules and customs. The activity may be competitive.

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Travel away from home for at least one night for the purpose of leisure. This excludes day trips.

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Tourism focused on the natural environment and local communities. Responsible travel to fragile, pristine, and usually protected areas that strive to be low impact and (often) small scale.

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