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📌 A tourist must recognize a resource's value before it can become a tourism resource.
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Until the eighteenth century, many Western societies regarded rocky, steep mountains as frightening obstacles rather than as beautiful scenic attractions.
Restaurants sell food to tourists, hotels sell rooms to tourists for accommodation, and Mount Kinabalu attracts tourists.
Recognized economic value → potential tourism resource.
Tangible and Intangible Resources
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Tangible | Hotel rooms, food, aircraft seats |
| Intangible | Scenery, climate, heritage, hospitality |
1. When can a resource become a tourism resource?
2. Before the eighteenth century, how did many Western societies regard rocky, steep mountains?
3. Which classification of tourism resources is accurate?
What is a tangible tourism resource?
A perceptible item considered to have economic value to the tourism sector.
Which tourism resources are tangible: hotel rooms, food, aircraft seats, scenery, climate, heritage, or hospitality?
Hotel rooms, food, and aircraft seats.
Which listed tourism resources are intangible?
Scenery, climate, heritage, and hospitality.
What must a tourist recognize before a resource becomes a tourism resource?
The resource’s value.
How did many Western societies view rocky, steep mountains until the eighteenth century?
As frightening obstacles rather than beautiful scenic attractions.
What do restaurants sell to tourists?
Food.
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