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1What are the Three (3) types of funding for attractions?
- APublic, Non-Profit, Private
- BSpecial Interest, For-Profit, General
- CPublic Interest, Special Hobby, Interest Hobby.
2What is a Natural Attraction?
- AIt is a attraction that is non Man Made what so ever like Niagara Falls.
- BIt is a Man Made Attraction like the Calgary Tower.
3What is an Cultural Attraction
- Ais the subset of tourism concerned with a country or region's culture. Like native tribes with their culture and way of live.
- BIt is just an attraction to make money.
4What is an attraction that entertains?
- AThere is a place where there is some form of entertainment like Broadway or the Grand Ole Opry.
- BIt is not a tourist trap or somewhere's that seems boring.
5What is an Public Attraction?
- AA public attraction is funded usually by the state (government) like all the historical sites in England like the old catherals.
- BAn attraction that the government thinks people want to see.
6What is an Non-profit attraction?
- AThe attraction is ran by volunteers and all the money goes into maintenance and similar. For example Wat Pho Temple in Bangkok.
- BA greedy individual that keeps all the money for themselves and not share with anyone else.
7What is a constructed Attraction?
- AIt is a man made attraction that lures people in from all around the world. The Eiffel Tower and the Calgary Tower are a few.
- BA piece of building to attract tourists to spend their money on over priced trinkets and terrible customer service.
8What is a Historical Museum?
- AA Museum with historical artifacts and relics of the past such as the Cairo Museum where they have the largest collection of Pharaohs.
- BWhere Indiana Jones would love to raid for his own collection
9What is a Scientific Museum?
- AA 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.
- BWear science geeks and nerds hang out in doing research, educating one another on boring topics.
10What is an Art Museum?
- AWhere some famous painters used their fingers to paint ugly art.
- BAn Art Museum is such because it houses art work from many different artists, and periods of time.
11What is a Kids Museum?
- AA glorified baby sitting serve for adults to drop off their kids.
- BA 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
12What is a living History Museum?
- AYou get the opportunity to Participate, explore and learn about the people, events and learn about historical events like the American Revolution.
- BWhere people just costume play and have fun on weekends.
13What is an UNESCO World Heritage Site?
- AA place that is saved from bad people making $$$.
- Bis 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.
14What is a zoo?
- AWhere animals are unsafely abused.
- BIt 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.
15What is an Aquarium?
- AA place for marine habitat to be showcased for research and educational purposes and for the public to learn about marine biology.
- BWhere fishermen/women go to get their supper.
16What is Spectator Sports?
- ASports that athletes participate in like FIFA, the Olympics etc where people from all over the world cheer on.
- BBunch of attractive guys(to the ladies) and ladies playing sports.
17What is a theme park?
- AThere 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.
- BThe theme of a theme park is to bore people half to death and swindle people out of as much money as possible.
18What is an Amusement Park?
- AFor half assed thrills and cheap boring rides.
- BAs 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.
19What is a Circus?
- AWhere animals get abused for entertainment purposes,
- BThere 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).
20What is a Shopping/Mega Mall?
- AA money pit where people unload a bunch of money and regret it later.
- BA 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.
21What is a Shopping/Historical Marketplace?
- AA really old mall where it has been taking peoples money for more then 100 years.
- BA marketplace that has been around for a long time that can include food, handmade objects like quilts, furniture.
22What is live entertainment?
- AA person who thinks that they are talented goes up and does a horrible sketch in front of a crowd where they get booed off.
- BA pub-like bar where even the servers sing. Or a piano Bar, a Jazz club.
23What is a casino?
- AA place to be suckered out of money.
- BA 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.
24What is Pari-mutuel betting?
- APari-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.
- BI got no idea.
25Name a few types of accommodations.
- AHostels, Motels, Condo/time share. Bed and breakfasts.
- BHomeless Shelter.
26What is a Tour operator?
- ACalgary transit, west jet, Holland America, Horse and buggy.
- BContiki, Top Deck, Life Before Word, G Adventures, Around the Block
27What is a car rental company?
- AKLM Royal Dutch Carlines.
- BEurocar, Budget.
28What is a event (temp)
- AA festival, fair, fundraising event that is only for a few days, hours.
- BWhen a girl can't even.
29Adventure tourism and outdoor recreation includes:
- ANational, provincial, state parks, hard and soft adventure, ecotourism.
- BWhere people become active and get lost, where bears eat them.
30What is a Consolidator
- Aa company who has specific agreements to purchase a large number of airline seats every year from individual airlines at a low price
- BA company that contracts with hotels, transportation companies and other suppliers to create a tour package to the consumer through a retail travel agency.
31What is a Wholesaler
- AWholesaler: A company that contracts with hotels, transportation companies and other suppliers to create a tour package to the consumer through a retail travel agency.
- BThe department in a corporation that handles travel arrangements for h the corporation's employees.
- Coffers 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.
32Define ACTA
- AAssociation of Canadian Travel Agents
- BAnti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
33Define ASTA
- AAmerican Society of Travel Agents
- BAmerican String Teachers Association
34Define CLIA
- ACruise Line Intentional Association
- BClinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments
35Define HAC
- AHotel Association of Cambodia.
- BHotel Association of Canada
36Define MPI
- AMeeting Planes inair
- BMeeting Professionals Intertional
37Define PATA
- APacific American Travel Association
- BPacific Asia Travel Association
38Define TIAC
- ATravel Industry Association of Canada
- BTravel Industry Association of China
39The new name of CTC
- ADestinations Canada
- BSAIT Destinations.
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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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