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- Source :
- Encyclopedia of Tourism; 2000, p243-269, 27p
- Publication Year :
- 2000
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Abstract
- This section presents basic definitions, concepts, themes, issues, methods, perspectives and institutions related to tourism. Gambling is an activity that was broadly legalized in many parts of the work during the last three decades of the twentieth century. Game park reserves are owned either privately or governmentally for the purpose of limited noneconomic and economic human interaction with wildlife and their habitats found within their boundaries. Game theory is a mathematical modeling tool used in various social science applications. Unlike traditional economic methodology, economic and business game theory models do not ignore the influence of an individual's actions on others and vice versa. Geographical information systems are computer systems with facilities for the storage, retrieval, manipulation and display or spatially-referenced, usually mapped, information. Geography can be viewed as the study of the earth as the home of human beings. While the habitat can be regarded as an object, geography is not usually considered to be an object-oriented discipline. Recreational geography is a major research speciality of geography. Its roots can be found in geographic publications of the 1920s; however, its flowering occurred during the Great Depression with the publication of an article on the topic of land use.
- Subjects :
- TOURISM
GAMBLING
NATIONAL parks & reserves
GAME theory
GEODATABASES
GEOGRAPHY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBNs :
- 9780415154055
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Encyclopedia of Tourism
- Publication Type :
- Book
- Accession number :
- 17447294