Tourism (Cambridge (CIE) IGCSE Geography)

Students in Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean, were studying tourism. Tourism is an important industry in Mauritius and earns much foreign income.

Fig. 2.1 shows the number of international tourists who visited Mauritius between 1995 and 2015.

(i)

How many international tourists visited Mauritius in 2005?

Fig 2.1

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(ii)

Between which two years was there a decline in the number of international tourists visiting Mauritius?

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(iii)

Suggest four reasons why the number of international tourists visiting LEDCs, such as Mauritius, has increased in the last 30 years.

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The students decided to investigate why international tourists came to Mauritius and what impact tourists had on people who lived on the island. Their two hypotheses were:

Hypothesis 1: The physical landscape attracts more tourists to Mauritius than the human landscape.

Hypothesis 2: Tourism is a good development for the residents of Mauritius.

To investigate Hypothesis 1 the students produced a questionnaire. This is shown in Fig. 2.2.

Fig 2.2

(i)

When they showed their questionnaire to their teacher she suggested that before using the questionnaire they should ask:

‘Are you a tourist or do you live in Mauritius?’

Why do you think the teacher made this suggestion?

(ii)

The answers to Question 1 (Which continent do you come from?) are shown in Table 2.1 below.

Table 2.1
Answers to Question 1

Using Table 2.1, give two conclusions about where tourists came from to visit Mauritius. Do not just copy out the statistics.

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(iii)

The answers to Question 2 (Which of the following physical landscape attractions are you visiting in Mauritius?) and Question 3 (Which of the following human landscape attractions are you visiting in Mauritius?) are shown in Table 2.2.

Use this data to complete the bar graphs in Fig. 2.3 below, to show the number of visits made to the Casela Bird Park and the Grand Bassin temples.

(iv)

Complete the pie graph and key in Fig. 2.4 below to show the answers to Question 4 (Overall which attracted you most to Mauritius?).

(v)

What conclusion would the students make to Hypothesis 1: The physical landscape attracts more tourists to Mauritius than the human landscape? Support your decision with evidence from Figs. 2.3 and 2.4 and Table 2.2.

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The students used a different questionnaire to investigate Hypothesis 2: Tourism is a good development for the residents of Mauritius. The questionnaire is shown in Fig. 2.5.

Name and describe a sampling method to choose people to complete their questionnaire.

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The answers to Question 2 (Which are the three main benefits of tourism in Mauritius?) and Question 3 (Which are the three main disadvantages of tourism in Mauritius?) are shown in Table 2.3.

The students devised this simple index to work out which benefits and disadvantages were most important.

(i)

The students used the results in Table 2.3 to draw the graph in Fig. 2.6 below. Plot the total index scores for improved transport and air pollution on Fig. 2.6.

Table 2.3 for Question 2
Results of resident questionnaire

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Using evidence in Table 2.3 only, which one of the following statements supports

Hypothesis 2: Tourism is a good development for the residents of Mauritius?

Local people identified traffic congestion as the main disadvantage of tourism in Mauritius.
(i)

Suggest why tourism is likely to increase traffic congestion.

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(ii)

Describe how the students could carry out fieldwork to investigate the impact of traffic congestion in Mauritius.  

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