What are the Three (3) types of funding for attractions?
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Public, Non-Profit, Private
Special Interest, For-Profit, General
Public Interest, Special Hobby, Interest Hobby.
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What is a Natural Attraction?
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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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What is an Cultural Attraction
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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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What is an attraction that entertains?
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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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What is an Public Attraction?
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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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What is an Non-profit attraction?
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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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What is a constructed Attraction?
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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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What is a Historical Museum?
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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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What is a Scientific Museum?
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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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What is an Art Museum?
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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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What is a Kids Museum?
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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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What is a living History Museum?
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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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What is an UNESCO World Heritage Site?
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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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What is a zoo?
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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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What is an Aquarium?
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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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What is Spectator Sports?
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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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What is a theme park?
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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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What is an Amusement Park?
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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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What is a Circus?
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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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What is a Shopping/Mega Mall?
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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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What is a Shopping/Historical Marketplace?
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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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What is live entertainment?
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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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What is a casino?
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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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What is Pari-mutuel betting?
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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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Name a few types of accommodations.
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Hostels, Motels, Condo/time share. Bed and breakfasts.
Homeless Shelter.
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What is a Tour operator?
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Calgary transit, west jet, Holland America, Horse and buggy.
Contiki, Top Deck, Life Before Word, G Adventures, Around the Block
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What is a car rental company?
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KLM Royal Dutch Carlines.
Eurocar, Budget.
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What is a event (temp)
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A festival, fair, fundraising event that is only for a few days, hours.
When a girl can't even.
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Adventure tourism and outdoor recreation includes:
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National, provincial, state parks, hard and soft adventure, ecotourism.
Where people become active and get lost, where bears eat them.
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What is a Consolidator
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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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What is a Wholesaler
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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.