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| Adventure Tourism | A growing portion of nature-based tourism, this form of tourism tests the tourist’s skills, and places him or her in an unusual, remote, and exciting environment or culture. |
| Alternative Tourism | This form of tourism advocates smaller scale tourism in terms of the number of tourists and the dimensions of tourism development. |
| Ambience | A feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing. |
| Authenticity | A dimension of a tourism setting that refers to the concept or state of experiencing what a culture or society is really like now or historically through attention to authentic detail in artifacts, costumes, activities, attractions, and lifestyles. |
| Behavioral Setting | Usually containing people, this is a smaller subset of the environment that regularly surrouning the person; usually a familiar situation. |
| Cognitive Map | A mental representation of the world; a collection of information that an individual uses to orient him/herself within an environment or a setting. |
| Cultural Tourism | A form of tourism in which the culture of the area is the primary attraction. |
| Ecotourism | Ecology-oriented tourism in which tourists seek out environmentally sensitive travel and/or tours or vacations which in some way improve or add to the knowledge of an environment. |
| Emerging Authenticity | The result obtained when current artifacts and cultural activities replicate historic or older artifacts and, in time, become "authentic" artifacts of the community. |
| Environment | Surrounds an individual - both social and physical. Includes everything beyond a person's body, such as the air, the water, the land, buildings, and other people. |
| Environmental Degradation | The erosion of the quality of the environment, especially when caused by people. |
| Environmental Perception | A holistic approach to perception that considers how an individual translates and interprets information from the environment |
| Geography | In reference to tourism, the science of locating tourism destinations, routing vacations, and moving people from one place to another. |
| Green Movement | Environmentally oriented movement or political party composed of concerned citizens who call for less destructive methods in agriculture, community development, rural development, and tourism. |
| Greens | Members of the Green Movement or Green Party. |
| Image | The perceptions one has of some thing, place, or event that is carried in one's memory |
| Landmarks | Distinguishing features that stand out and provide a reference point for orientation. Provide travelers with information about direction and distance. |
| Mass Tourism | Wide-scale travel by a large number of people -not just the elite- brought about by the increase in leisure time, discretionary income, and reliable and inexpensive modes of transportation such as the automobile and airplane. |
| Mass Tourists | Travelers participating in wide-scale travel designed for large numbers of people. |
| Science Tourism | A subgroup of ecotourism in which laymen and laywomen travel with scientists and students to help with scientific work at various sites throughout the world; the phenomenon is that people pay for vacations in which they often work very hard, long hours but also make a contribution to a body of scientific knowledge. |
| Staged Authenticity | The result of using the environment to enhance or support the authentic or to give the appearance of authenticity through imitations or re-enactments. |
| Tourism Development | The long-term process of preparing for the arrival of tourists; entails planning, and facilities that serve the tourist. |
