Ski Towns: Help Please! Project
Hey everyone, I'm doing a group project for my GES 475: Recreation, Tourism, and the Enviroment class. We're doing ski resorts/towns in Colorado. Lookin to see if you all could help out and answer a few short questions. Thanks for your time!
These questions are for any Ski town, PLEASE say which Ski Town/Resort here in Colorado that you are talking about though.
1) What claims on space exist here?
A. Who comes here?
B. Why do they visit?
C. What activities are dominant?
2) Who Benifits or suffers in this landscape?
A. Who made, or who is making the decisions that create(d) this place?
B. What lives or livelihoods are overwritten (human or otherwise)?
3) Are there broader networks or processes at work that influence or help explain conditions at the local level?
4) What are the enviromental impacts and demands of this tourist landscape?
A. What relationship exists--or needs to exist-- between visitors and the enviroment for this tourst landscape to succeed?
B. What alterations or impacts on the enviroment of this place are evident?
C. What alterations or impacts on the enviroment of this place occurred, but are no longer evident? Why are they not evident?
* Thanks again.*
- Alex
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