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MidTerms GLOBAL CULTURE AND TOURISM GEOGRAPHY
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MidTerms GLOBAL CULTURE AND TOURISM GEOGRAPHY
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13 Countries In North America - Caribbean
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Antigua and Barbuda - St John’s Bahamas - Nassau Barbados - Bridgetown Cuba - Havana Dominica - Roseau Dominican Republic - Santo Domingo Grenada - St George’s Haiti - Port-au-Prince Jamaica - Kingston St Kitts-Nevis - Basseterre St Lucia - Castries St Vincent and the Grenadines - Kingstown Trinidad and Tobago - Port of Spain
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10 Countries In North America - Mainland
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Canada - Ottawa United State of America - Washington D.C. Mexico - Mexico City Belize - Belmopan Guatemala - Guatemala City Honduras - Tegucigalpa El Salvador - San Salvador Nicaragua - Managua Costa Rica - San Jose Panama - Panama City
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- A continent in the Northern Hemisphere almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. Bordered to the north by Arctic Ocean, to the east by Atlantic Ocean, to the Southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea and to the west & south by Pacific Ocean.
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North America
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- 3rd largest continent, from the tiny Aleutian Islands in the Northwest to the Isthmus of Panama in the south. Includes the enormous island of Greenland in northeast and the small island countries & territories that dot the Caribbean sea & western North Atlantic Ocean.
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North America
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- According to the National Geographic, it is the study of places & the relationships between people & their environments. - According to the Royal Geographical Society, Geography puts this understanding of social and physical processes within the context of place - recognizing the great differences in cultures, political systems, economies, landscapes, & environments across the world, and exploring the links between them
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Geography
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Imaginary Line
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Latitude, Parallel< Longitude, Meridian, Equator, Prime Meridian, IDL, Time Zones
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- lines of latitude run across a map east-west, the latitude indicates the north-south position of a point on Earth. - Starts at 0 degrees at the equator and end at 90 degrees at the north & south poles (total to 180 degrees of latitude). The higher the value of degrees of latitude, the closer it is to the north & south pole.
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Latitude
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- Everything north of the equator is known as the Northern Hemisphere and everything south of the equator is Southern Hemisphere.
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Positive & Negative Latitude values
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- A named line connecting all points along the same line of latitude.
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Parallel
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5 Major parallels of latitude from north to south:
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Arctic Circle Tropic of cancer Equator Tropic of Capricorn Antarctic Circle
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- Equator divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemisphere is makers the location of 0 degrees latitude. - Equator marks the location on Earth that are equidistance from the North & South Poles. The equator is the only line of latitude that is great circle, all the other lines of latitude are small circles.
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Where is the Equator
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- Lines that run North-South & mark the position East-West of a point. Therefore, latitude is the angular distance east or west of the Prime Meridian, which passes through Greenwich, England. - Run from pole to pole, crossing the equator at right angles. All lines of longitude are equal in length. Each line of longitude also is one half of a great circle.
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Longitude
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- There are 360 degrees of longitude (+180 eastward & -180 westward). - A location of longitude is expressed in degrees, minutes ('), and seconds ("). Positive longitude value indicates eastern hemisphere, negative longitude value indicates Western Hemisphere.
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Positive & Negative Longitude Values
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- The longitude line of 0 degrees is known as the Prime Meridian and it divides the world into Eastern and Western Hemisphere. Passing through the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, England. Also known as the Greenwich Meridian & divides Earth in to 2 equal halves.
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Prime Meridian
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- Line on earth where one calendar and becomes the next is known as the international date line (IDL) which passes through the Pacific Ocean. - Generally found 180 degrees from the Prime Meridian but the line circumvents some regions and Islands to avoid dividing contiguous pieces of regions & countries into 2 separate days. - There are 23 one-hour slices and 2 30 minutes slices that divide the world up into different time zones.
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International Date Line
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- 24 different time zones in the world. Earth rotates 360 degrees every 24 hours, each time zones is 15 degrees longitude apart from the other. - Prime Meridian defines he center of the first time zone in the world. Spans from 7.5 degrees west to 7.5 degrees east.
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Time Zones
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- When you move to the right, you gain time (fast time). But when you move head toward to left, you lose an hour (slow time).
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Gaining & Losing time
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- By advocating for conditions optimizing leisure experiences: legislation, infrastructure, leadership, and programming.
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Engage in informed advocacy
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Process of Acquiring a Passport
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- Appointment with the DFA - Submission of Required Document - Personal Appearance at the DFA Office - Approval of Passport - Pick up of Passport Personally or Via Delivery
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Jet lag Motion Sickness Ear Pain Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
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- Research & scholarship to discover the personal & social potentialities of leisure experience
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Foster Inquiry
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- Issued by Bureau of Immigrations Services, Department of Social Welfare & Development, & Department of Justice
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Clearances
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- Is a document issued by PH government to its citizens requesting other governments to allow its citizens to pass freely and to give them lawful aid and protection. (Republic Act No. 8239)
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Passport
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- Formal & informal dissemination of knowledge and information
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Share Knowledge
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- The trade association for the world's airlines, representing some 260 airlines or 83% of total air traffic.
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International Air Transport Association
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- Developing communicating materials like posters, leaflets, & information materials to provide information on what tourists and the tourism industry can do that impacts climate change.
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Raising Awareness on Climate Change & Tourism
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- Due to the changes of the pane's altitude. The ears are subjected to changes in air pressure. The Eustachian tube that connects the middle ear with the upper part of the throat equalizes air pressure in the middle ear.
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Ear Pain
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- To increase the disaster management capacity of tourist destinations that were affected by the tsunami. Residents & tourists will be trained on how to prepare & react to a natural disaster
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Disaster Risk Reduction in Tourism Destinations
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- such as birth certificate, marriage certificate, certificate of no marriage (CENOMAR) at the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)
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Essential Documents
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- United Nations World Tourism Organization is the United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable, & universally accessible tourism. The leading international organization in the field of tourism. Promotes Tourism as a driver of economic growth, inclusive development and environmental sustainability.
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UNWTO