Warsaw, Poland

Tourism and Recreation

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⇑Tourism and Recreation at Merito Warszawa

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: physical education, tourism, services
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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⇑Test: Is Tourism and Recreation the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. Your friends want to go away for the weekend, but nobody can agree where. What do you do?

2. You’re guiding a group of tourists who are tired and grumpy after rain cancels their hike. How do you react?

3. How would you feel about leading outdoor activities like kayaking, cycling or hiking for a group?

4. When you visit a new place, what catches your eye?

5. Classes will be in English, in a group of students from many countries. How does that sound?

6. A beautiful nature spot is being damaged by too many visitors. What do you think?

7. A hotel guest is complaining loudly at reception. What do you do?

8. Would you enjoy designing a leisure programme for, say, seniors or families with small children?

9. In this field, you often work at weekends and during holidays, when others are relaxing. How do you feel about that?

10. What motivates you most to study Tourism and Recreation?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Recreation
Recreation is an activity of leisure, leisure being discretionary time. The "need to do something for recreation" is an essential element of human biology and psychology. Recreational activities are often done for enjoyment, amusement, or pleasure and are considered to be "fun".
Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. Tourism may be international, or within the traveller's country. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".
Recreation
Jesus ... never laughed. Nothing has ever equaled the seriousness of his life; it is clear that pleasure, recreation, anything that could divert the mind, had no part in it. The life of Jesus was utterly taut, wholly caught up in God and in the woes of men, and he gave to nature only what he could not have refused it without destroying it.
Pierre Nicole, Essais de Morale (1753), XIII, 390, in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927) as translated by Mary Ilford (1968), p. 118
Tourism
I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place.
Bill Bryson in: Neither Here Nor There, Doubleday Canada, 25 September 2012, p. 204
Tourism
Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in did not bother them at all. They untied the door, opened the flap, and barged right in, touching our things, poking through our bedrolls, inspecting everything. It boggles my mind that tourists feel they have the god-given right to intrude everywhere.
Russell Means in: Brent Lovelock, Kirsten Lovelock The Ethics of Tourism: Critical and Applied Perspectives, Routledge, 26 Jun 26, Routledge, 26 June 2013, p. 144

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