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review questions for Final Exam
RRT 287 --
Principles of Resource Recreation & Tourism
Typical Review Questions
for Final Exam
1.
What is the ROS and what are the six zones that are described under
the ROS?
2.
What are the five phases of the Outdoor Recreation Experience?
3.
How are ecotourism, cultural tourism, nature-based tourism, and
adventure tourism related and how do they differ?
4.
What are the roles of land management agencies and private
entrepreneurs (both large and small) in delivering tourism opportunities?
5.
What does LAC mean? What
is at the heart of the LAC process?
6.
What are the elements of a behavioral definition of outdoor
recreation? Explain with an
example.
7.
What are some examples of indicators that could be used in the LAC
process?
8.
What are some examples of standards that could be used with LAC
indicators?
9.
What are some disadvantages and some advantages of the LAC process?
10.
Recreation carrying capacity focuses people’s attention on the
wrong question. What is that
wrong question? Why is this the wrong question?
11.
Define recreation carrying capacity and underline the key
components of this definition.
12.
Why is the link between satisfaction and crowding so often very
weak in outdoor recreation?
13.
What is recreation displacement?
Give two examples. Can you give an example of people who no longer
use a recreation area but the reason they no longer come is NOT recreation
displacement?
14.
What is asymmetrical antipathy in outdoor recreation?
Give two different examples.
15.
What is the last settler syndrome?
Why should a manager even care (or what will happen if the manager
doesn’t recognize this syndrome?
16.
Describe two ways that peak/flow experiences or edgework may affect
natural resource based recreation and tourism management.
17.
What two theories of recreation help to explain intense recreation
activities?
18.
List and describe 3 characteristics of peak experiences; List and
describe 3 characteristics of flow experiences; List and describe 3
characteristics of edgework.
19.
What are the important elements of marketing to the resource
recreation and tourism industry?
20.
How does the behavioral definition of outdoor recreation differ
from the activity definition (be sure to list the essential elements)?
Using the behavioral definition, can you explain how an activity
like bicycling changes depending upon the physical, social, and managerial
setting?
21.
How do people’s perception of carrying capacity (relative to
encounters) differ for a wilderness versus a cocktail party.
Could you graphically display this comparison?
22.
In large outdoor recreation areas there are different kinds of
capacities that serve to limit how many people can use a particular area
or site, such as, facilities capacities, physical capacities, ecological
capacities, and social capacities. Can
you explain these and give examples of these?
23.
Define recreation conflict and explain by giving two examples.
24.
What is crowding and how is it related to privacy, personal space,
and territoriality?
25.
What is temporal zoning and give two examples of how it can be used
in recreation management.
26.
The five major allocation techniques to ration visitation are
Reservation, Lotteries, Queuing, Price, and Merit.
Describe each and give an example of how each is used in recreation
management.
27.
Describe the difference between the terms ethnicity and race.
28.
What was the most surprising thing you learned while doing your
interview assignment?
29.
What is recreation specialization? How can public land managers AND the
private entrepreneurs use recreation specialization in their day-to-day
operations? (give some examples)
30.
What are two important norms that affect how people behave in recreation
settings, especially concerning vandalism and depreciative behavior?
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