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A series of high mountain ranges extending in an arc from south-eastern France to Austria to Slovenia. One word answer.

Alps

This region of Belgium is known for its forests, limestone gorges, winding river valleys and picturesque chateaus, while many villages and market towns in the region have become resorts.

Ardennes Uplands

A country known for its lavishly decorated Baroque churches, monasteries and palaces, as well as it notable music composers and music festivals.

Austria

City that is an important shipbuilding center, deeply divided with 'peace walls' separating Catholic and Protestant communities.

Belfast

This important German city was historically the capital of Prussia, with the famous Brandenburg Gate as an attraction, and later became a divided city with a wall through it. This wall no longer divides. One word answer.

Berlin

An area of spectacular Alpine scenery in Switzerland, with well-preserved rural traditions and some of the most sophisticated ski resorts in Europe.

Bernese Oberland

Opened in 1994 and connects England to France and allows tourists easier connections.

Channel Tunnel

The River Liffey runs through this Irish city that holds attractions such as Temple Bar, Guinness Storehouse, and Trinity College, the country's oldest and most famous university. Just a one word answer naming the city.

Dublin

This group of 18 inhabited islands has a dominant fishing industry, yet suffers from an excessively wet and windy climate, causing constraints on tourism. However, it offers some of Europe's most spectacular cliff scenery.

Faeroes

Country that lacks a well-defined tourism image, yet has a variety of scenery and cultural attractions.

Germany

From 1945-1990, it was a divided country with Soviet control in the east, and since then the development of tourism has been complicated.

Germany

Economy that is highly developed and industrialized with a high standard of living and strong interest in 'green' issues.

Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Occupies key position in the center of Europe.

Germany, Austria, Switzerland

A city in Germany that is one of Europe's major ports, a major cultural scene in 'Old Town' with art and architecture and has vitality in its nightlife.

Hamburg

Which country is best-described here? It is an insular location, whose ethnicity comes from a mixture of Norwegians and Celts, has a colorful capital city, is geologically unique geysers, and thrives on the fishing industry.

Iceland

Often seen as a measure of time, and usually means the time left over after work, sleep, household chores and personal obligations have been completed.

Leisure Time

A small country/principality between Switzerland and Austria, often overlooked, but has beauty in its alpine landscape, villages and medieval castles.

Liechtenstein

Attractions here: Churchill's War Cabinets, St. Paul's Cathedral, The River Thames, the Tate Museum, Leicester Square. One word answer.

London

A picturesque Swiss city, famous for its Chapel Bridge, and a fjord-like lake argued to be the most beautiful inland body of water in Europe

Lucerne

In Denmark, a scenic route, used by many for biking, that allows visitors to see a majority of the key attractions of this small country in one touring holiday.

Marguerite Route

A country offering cultural diversity, the city of Amsterdam (a world top 5 tourist center), The Hague and Rotterdam.

Netherlands

This important river runs through portions of these three countries, has beautiful green sloping mountain-sides, is a major commercial artery, and a source for many European river cruises.

Rhine

A best-known tourist route linking a number of well-preserved medieval towns such as Rothensburg.

Romantic Road

This city in the Netherlands is Europe's largest port at the mouth of the Rhine River, and was rebuilt after WWII with modern architecture, shopping and sport opportunity.

Rotterdam

Austrian city with a flourishing tourist industry, especially focused on music festivals, beautiful and unrivaled Baroque architecture outside of Spain, and connection to the 'Sound of Music'

Salzburg

A Swedish city, known to be the most interesting for foreign tourists, is a modern city situated on a number of islands, with heritage attractions such as the Gamla Stan. Name just the city.

Stockholm

A country of economic prosperity, political stability, highly developed roadway networks through the Alps, and has some of the most spectacular scenic attractions in Europe

Switzerland

The demand for tourism in Benelux is high, but there are environmental pressures due to the small areas of land.

True

One of the most popular destinations in Austria, with spectacular Alpine scenery, folklore and costumes of their traditional culture, and a city who has twice hosted the Winter Olympics

Tyrol

Austrian city known as a modern conference venue, its Opera House, and its wealth of tourism focused on music, art and architecture.

Vienna

This country includes traditional culture in the isolated and rugged mountains of Snowdonia, Britain's largest national park, and impressive castles dating from Edward I.

Wales

A key concept of sustainable tourism and known as the maximum number of people who can use a site without unacceptable deterioration in the physical environment and without unacceptable decline in the quality of the experience gained by visitors.

carrying capacity

The actual number of participants in tourism at the present.moment

effective or actual demand

Key to the tourist system, and if in existence, can halt the system (terrorism and security issues, safety, weather conditions, global health/pandemic issues.

external issues

Income, employment, paid-holiday/vacation entitlement, social status and choice of lifestyle, as well as other personal factors

lifestyle determinants for tourism opportunity

The variety of activities undertaken during leisure time

recreation

The section of the population who is not traveling for a particular reason

suppressed demand

Exploration, Involvement, Development, Consolidation, Stagnation, Decline or Rejuvenation

tourism area life cycle

At least one attraction; support facilities including accommodations; accessibility to major tourist-generating country; favorable pre-conditions for development (such as basic infrastructure, tourist organization, political stability)

tourism product of a destination

Usually means a tangible feature that is considered to be of economic value to the tourist sector, but not exclusively used by tourists.

tourism resource

A key element of the tourist system: Represents the home of tourists, where journeys begin and end

tourist generating areas

A key element of the tourist systems: Attracts tourists to stay temporarily and will have features and attractions that may not be found in the generating areas.

tourist receiving areas

A key element of the tourist system: their effectiveness and characteristics shape the volume and direction of tourist flows.

transit routes

The percentage of a population who actually engages in tourism and has variable such as economic development, political influences and complexion, population factors.

travel propensity

A simple curiosity to experience the strange and unfamiliar.

wanderlust