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What is an Assylum seeker?
A person who tries to enter a country by claiming to be a victim of persecution or hardship
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Commmodity chains
a sequence of stages in which companies to exploit resources, transform them into goods or commodities and then distribute them to consumers
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Economic migrant
a person seeking work in another country
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Ecotourism
a form of tourism that tries to minimise its environmental impacts by sing local resources and keeping profits in the area.
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Foreign direct investment
where a company or government becomes involved in the economy of another country
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Economic globalisation
the increasing integration of nationl markets
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Global shift
The present movement of economic production to cheaper locations in the world
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Information technology
the use of computers and software to manage and process information
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Mass tourism
popular, large - scale tourism of the type pioneered in southern Europe, the Caribbean, and North aamerica in the 1960s and 1970s
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Net migration
The balance between the number of people entering and the number of peple leaving a country or a region
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Package holiday
a holiday in which travel and accommodation are put togeter by a tour operator and sold s a relatively cheap package.
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Push - pull factors
The things that encourage people to migrate form one area to another. The negatives in the area of departure are balanced against the positives (pull) of the destination
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Refugee
a person who reasons for migrating are due to fear or persecution or death
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Tourism
any leisure time or recreational activity which involves at least one night's bscence from the normal place of residence
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Transnational company (TNC)
a large company operating in a number of countries and often involved ina variety of ecomomic activities
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