Sydney Harbour YHA

Introduction

This website is designed to provide you with a case study of a local economic enterprise within the global tourism industry for the Stage 6 Geography topic - People and Economic Activity.

The Geography syllabus states that students must study:

"A geographical study of an economic enterprise operating at a local scale. The business could be an individual enterprise, firm or company such as a family farm, a mine or mining corporation, a hotel, chain of hotels, heritage or tourist site. The case study should explore:

• the nature of the economic enterprise

• location factors

• ecological dimensions including environmental constraints, climate, and human impacts on the environment such as pollution and ecological sustainability

• internal and external linkages and flows of people, goods, services and ideas

• effects of global changes in the economic activity on the enterprise.

Website content

The website provides:

• A detailed investigation of Sydney Harbour YHA

• A virtual tour through the hostel

• Relevant updates about the hostel case study and the global tourism industry

• General information about the global tourism industry to help you place the case study within the context of the entire industry, particularly changes that are affecting the industry.

For more information about the enterprise, visit the Sydney Harbour YHA website.

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