2. Tourism and sport Local and national scale

How physical and human factors shape places into sites of leisure

• Human and physical factors explaining the growth of rural and urban tourism hotspots including the role of primary and secondary touristic resources

• Variations in sphere of influence for different kinds of sporting and touristic facility, including neighbourhood parks and gyms, city stadiums and national parks

• Factors affecting the geography of a national sports league, including the location of its hierarchy of teams and the distribution of supporters

• Case study of one national sports league

• Large-scale sporting, musical, cultural or religious festivals as temporary sites of leisure and their associated costs and benefits

• Case study of one festival in a rural location, its site factors and geographic impacts

2.1 - The consequences of unsustainable touristic growth in rural and urban tourism hotspots, including the concept of carrying capacity and possible management options to increase site resilience

2.2 Variations in sphere of influence for different kinds of sporting and touristic facility, including neighbourhood parks and gyms, city stadiums and national parks

Describe and explain the variations in the Sphere of Influence of a range of sporting and tourist facilities in a named urban area. (10 marks)

The location of leisure and tourist facilities in urban areas often follows a pattern that relates to a range of Geographical factors (Social, Economic, Environmental and political and Demographic). The sphere of influence of each facility is determined by what the specific facility is, with there being a hierarchy in terms of the importance of individual facilities of a certain type. Sphere of influence is defined as the distance that people will come from to use a facility and the threshold is the number of people that are needed before a facility will open. A large national stadium needs a large threshold population but a small football pitch will need a low threshold. The variations in sphere of influence will be examined in relation to Singapore and the following facilities - parks, cinemas, gyms, stadiums, cinemas, community centres…

Choose at at least three (however you must look at stadiums, gyms and parks as a minimum as these are the ones in the syllabus)

Parks - Describe the hierarchy in Singapore - large, medium, small …  In the hierarchy how does the following change - numbers of facilities available. Relate this to spheres of influence - how far people go - use terms of threshold.

Stadiums: - Again where are they what is the difference in shere of influence of the national stadium and smaller stadiums - name them. 

Gyms: What would be the sphere of influence? Note some franchised gyms so people may choose to travel between places depending on what is offered. What about specialised gyms.

Tourist facilities: Look at this .map of tourist facilities in Singapore. Where are they found - most near CBD, Sentosa area. Is it just tourists that go to these places? Why are some in locations far from the CBD - how does this affect their Sphere of Influence?

Museums: where are they found and in general what is the sphere of influence of these. 

Example from Past Students - available only after you have completed your effort.

2.3 Large-scale sporting, musical, cultural or religious festivals as temporary sites of leisure and their associated costs and benefits.