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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

Frage 1 von 39

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

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Public, Non-Profit, Private

  • Special Interest, For-Profit, General

  • Public Interest, Special Hobby, Interest Hobby.

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Frage 2 von 39

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What is a Natural Attraction?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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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Frage 3 von 39

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What is an Cultural Attraction

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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.

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Frage 4 von 39

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What is an attraction that entertains?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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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Frage 5 von 39

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What is an Public Attraction?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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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Frage 6 von 39

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What is an Non-profit attraction?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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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Frage 7 von 39

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What is a constructed Attraction?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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.

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Frage 8 von 39

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What is a Historical Museum?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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

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Frage 9 von 39

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What is a Scientific Museum?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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.

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Frage 10 von 39

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What is an Art Museum?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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.

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Frage 11 von 39

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What is a Kids Museum?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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

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Frage 12 von 39

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What is a living History Museum?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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.

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Frage 13 von 39

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What is an UNESCO World Heritage Site?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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.

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Frage 14 von 39

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What is a zoo?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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.

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Frage 15 von 39

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What is an Aquarium?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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.

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Frage 16 von 39

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What is Spectator Sports?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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.

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Frage 17 von 39

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What is a theme park?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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.

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Frage 18 von 39

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What is an Amusement Park?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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.

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Frage 19 von 39

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What is a Circus?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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).

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Frage 20 von 39

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What is a Shopping/Mega Mall?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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.

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Frage 21 von 39

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What is a Shopping/Historical Marketplace?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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.

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Frage 22 von 39

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What is live entertainment?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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.

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Frage 23 von 39

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What is a casino?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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.

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Frage 24 von 39

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What is Pari-mutuel betting?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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.

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Frage 25 von 39

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Name a few types of accommodations.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

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

  • Homeless Shelter.

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Frage 26 von 39

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What is a Tour operator?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

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

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

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Frage 27 von 39

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What is a car rental company?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • KLM Royal Dutch Carlines.

  • Eurocar, Budget.

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Frage 28 von 39

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What is a event (temp)

Wähle eine der folgenden:

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

  • When a girl can't even.

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Frage 29 von 39

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Adventure tourism and outdoor recreation includes:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

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

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

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Frage 30 von 39

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What is a Consolidator

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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.

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Frage 31 von 39

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What is a Wholesaler

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 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.

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Frage 32 von 39

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Define ACTA

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Association of Canadian Travel Agents

  • Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

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Frage 33 von 39

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Define ASTA

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • American Society of Travel Agents

  • American String Teachers Association

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Frage 34 von 39

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Define CLIA

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Cruise Line Intentional Association

  • Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments

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Frage 35 von 39

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Define HAC

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Hotel Association of Cambodia.

  • Hotel Association of Canada

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Frage 36 von 39

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Define MPI

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Meeting Planes inair

  • Meeting Professionals Intertional

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Frage 37 von 39

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Define PATA

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Pacific American Travel Association

  • Pacific Asia Travel Association

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Frage 38 von 39

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Define TIAC

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Travel Industry Association of Canada

  • Travel Industry Association of China

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Frage 39 von 39

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The new name of CTC

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Destinations Canada

  • SAIT Destinations.

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