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This is a practice of what could be on the TOUR225 final exam. This isn`t the full list of what could be on it.

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Tour225 exam practice

Question 1 of 39

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What are the Three (3) types of funding for attractions?

Select one of the following:

  • Public, Non-Profit, Private

  • Special Interest, For-Profit, General

  • Public Interest, Special Hobby, Interest Hobby.

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Question 2 of 39

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What is a Natural Attraction?

Select one of the following:

  • It is a attraction that is non Man Made what so ever like Niagara Falls.

  • It is a Man Made Attraction like the Calgary Tower.

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Question 3 of 39

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What is an Cultural Attraction

Select one of the following:

  • is the subset of tourism concerned with a country or region's culture. Like native tribes with their culture and way of live.

  • It is just an attraction to make money.

Explanation

Question 4 of 39

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What is an attraction that entertains?

Select one of the following:

  • There is a place where there is some form of entertainment like Broadway or the Grand Ole Opry.

  • It is not a tourist trap or somewhere's that seems boring.

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Question 5 of 39

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What is an Public Attraction?

Select one of the following:

  • A public attraction is funded usually by the state (government) like all the historical sites in England like the old catherals.

  • An attraction that the government thinks people want to see.

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Question 6 of 39

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What is an Non-profit attraction?

Select one of the following:

  • The attraction is ran by volunteers and all the money goes into maintenance and similar. For example Wat Pho Temple in Bangkok.

  • A greedy individual that keeps all the money for themselves and not share with anyone else.

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Question 7 of 39

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What is a constructed Attraction?

Select one of the following:

  • It is a man made attraction that lures people in from all around the world. The Eiffel Tower and the Calgary Tower are a few.

  • A piece of building to attract tourists to spend their money on over priced trinkets and terrible customer service.

Explanation

Question 8 of 39

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What is a Historical Museum?

Select one of the following:

  • A Museum with historical artifacts and relics of the past such as the Cairo Museum where they have the largest collection of Pharaohs.

  • Where Indiana Jones would love to raid for his own collection

Explanation

Question 9 of 39

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What is a Scientific Museum?

Select one of the following:

  • A museum that is dedicated to the scientific advancement with active research and educational in nature. Such museums include the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

  • Wear science geeks and nerds hang out in doing research, educating one another on boring topics.

Explanation

Question 10 of 39

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What is an Art Museum?

Select one of the following:

  • Where some famous painters used their fingers to paint ugly art.

  • An Art Museum is such because it houses art work from many different artists, and periods of time.

Explanation

Question 11 of 39

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What is a Kids Museum?

Select one of the following:

  • A glorified baby sitting serve for adults to drop off their kids.

  • A Museum that encourages children to participate in hands on learning experiences, encourage experimentation, creativity and the development of problem solving skills.
    Provide a safe and stimulating experience to learn, laugh and be with family. is directed Also it is completely towards children and geared towards their learning and development

Explanation

Question 12 of 39

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What is a living History Museum?

Select one of the following:

  • You get the opportunity to Participate, explore and learn about the people, events and learn about historical events like the American Revolution.

  • Where people just costume play and have fun on weekends.

Explanation

Question 13 of 39

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What is an UNESCO World Heritage Site?

Select one of the following:

  • A place that is saved from bad people making $$$.

  • is a place (such as a building, city, complex, desert, forest, island, lake, monument, or mountain) that is listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as being of special cultural or physical significance.

Explanation

Question 14 of 39

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What is a zoo?

Select one of the following:

  • Where animals are unsafely abused.

  • It fits into the category because it’s a non-
    Profit organization. Meaning it has admission
    fees, donations, memberships and grants. It’s also an entertaining attraction.

Explanation

Question 15 of 39

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What is an Aquarium?

Select one of the following:

  • A place for marine habitat to be showcased for research and educational purposes and for the public to learn about marine biology.

  • Where fishermen/women go to get their supper.

Explanation

Question 16 of 39

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What is Spectator Sports?

Select one of the following:

  • Sports that athletes participate in like FIFA, the Olympics etc where people from all over the world cheer on.

  • Bunch of attractive guys(to the ladies) and ladies playing sports.

Explanation

Question 17 of 39

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What is a theme park?

Select one of the following:

  • There is a general theme that overarches the park and there is entertainment and rides that people can enjoy. Universal Studio's and Disneyland/world are a few.

  • The theme of a theme park is to bore people half to death and swindle people out of as much money as possible.

Explanation

Question 18 of 39

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What is an Amusement Park?

Select one of the following:

  • For half assed thrills and cheap boring rides.

  • As an amusement park, its main focuses are rides, entertainment and food. It is made to have fun. 6 flags and knotts berry farm is a few examples.

Explanation

Question 19 of 39

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What is a Circus?

Select one of the following:

  • Where animals get abused for entertainment purposes,

  • There are two types of circuses; an circus with animals like the shriners circus and Cirque Du Soleil where their main place is in LAS (Las Vegas).

Explanation

Question 20 of 39

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What is a Shopping/Mega Mall?

Select one of the following:

  • A money pit where people unload a bunch of money and regret it later.

  • A large building or series of connected buildings containing a variety of retail stores and typically also restaurants. Chinook Center and the Dubai mall are examples.

Explanation

Question 21 of 39

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What is a Shopping/Historical Marketplace?

Select one of the following:

  • A really old mall where it has been taking peoples money for more then 100 years.

  • A marketplace that has been around for a long time that can include food, handmade objects like quilts, furniture.

Explanation

Question 22 of 39

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What is live entertainment?

Select one of the following:

  • A person who thinks that they are talented goes up and does a horrible sketch in front of a crowd where they get booed off.

  • A pub-like bar where even the servers sing. Or a piano Bar, a Jazz club.

Explanation

Question 23 of 39

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What is a casino?

Select one of the following:

  • A place to be suckered out of money.

  • A casino is where you go to gamble on different adult games such as slot machines, poker, Keno, black jack, roulette. Las Vegas is the best example of where a lot of casinos are.

Explanation

Question 24 of 39

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What is Pari-mutuel betting?

Select one of the following:

  • Pari-Mutuel betting is the betting and handling of horse races then divided by amount of wagers, less a percentage for management and taxes etc. The Kentucky Derby is the famous horse betting place. Las Vegas is second to that.

  • I got no idea.

Explanation

Question 25 of 39

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Name a few types of accommodations.

Select one of the following:

  • Hostels, Motels, Condo/time share. Bed and breakfasts.

  • Homeless Shelter.

Explanation

Question 26 of 39

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What is a Tour operator?

Select one of the following:

  • Calgary transit, west jet, Holland America, Horse and buggy.

  • Contiki, Top Deck, Life Before Word, G Adventures, Around the Block

Explanation

Question 27 of 39

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What is a car rental company?

Select one of the following:

  • KLM Royal Dutch Carlines.

  • Eurocar, Budget.

Explanation

Question 28 of 39

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What is a event (temp)

Select one of the following:

  • A festival, fair, fundraising event that is only for a few days, hours.

  • When a girl can't even.

Explanation

Question 29 of 39

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Adventure tourism and outdoor recreation includes:

Select one of the following:

  • National, provincial, state parks, hard and soft adventure, ecotourism.

  • Where people become active and get lost, where bears eat them.

Explanation

Question 30 of 39

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What is a Consolidator

Select one of the following:

  • a company who has specific agreements to purchase a large number of airline seats every year from individual airlines at a low price

  • A company that contracts with hotels, transportation companies and other suppliers to create a tour package to the consumer through a retail travel agency.

Explanation

Question 31 of 39

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What is a Wholesaler

Select one of the following:

  • Wholesaler: A company that contracts with hotels, transportation companies and other suppliers to create a tour package to the consumer through a retail travel agency.

  • The department in a corporation that handles travel arrangements for h the corporation's employees.

  • offers these net fares to tour operators and travel agencies. In turn, these tour operators and travel agencies will mark up the fare to a retail level.

Explanation

Question 32 of 39

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Define ACTA

Select one of the following:

  • Association of Canadian Travel Agents

  • Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

Explanation

Question 33 of 39

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Define ASTA

Select one of the following:

  • American Society of Travel Agents

  • American String Teachers Association

Explanation

Question 34 of 39

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Define CLIA

Select one of the following:

  • Cruise Line Intentional Association

  • Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments

Explanation

Question 35 of 39

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Define HAC

Select one of the following:

  • Hotel Association of Cambodia.

  • Hotel Association of Canada

Explanation

Question 36 of 39

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Define MPI

Select one of the following:

  • Meeting Planes inair

  • Meeting Professionals Intertional

Explanation

Question 37 of 39

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Define PATA

Select one of the following:

  • Pacific American Travel Association

  • Pacific Asia Travel Association

Explanation

Question 38 of 39

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Define TIAC

Select one of the following:

  • Travel Industry Association of Canada

  • Travel Industry Association of China

Explanation

Question 39 of 39

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The new name of CTC

Select one of the following:

  • Destinations Canada

  • SAIT Destinations.

Explanation

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