Define leisure.

Define tourism.

Analyse three geographic factors, other than accessibility and affluence, that determine levels of participation in one named sport you have studied.

Compare the influence of accessibility and affluence on the growth of either recreation or tourism or sport.

Leisure is a freely chosen activity or experience [1 mark] that takes place in non-work time [1 mark].

Tourism involves travel away from home [1 mark] for at least one night [1 mark].

All tourists are involved with leisure but not all leisure is tourism.

Participation may be on a local, national or international scale.

Candidates are expected to consider three distinct factors. 2 marks are available for each developed factor up to a maximum of 6 marks. The range of answers is wide, but could include socio-economic factors, education levels, funding, investment in infrastructure, marketing, role of governing body, media exposure, or facility requirements. The answer may focus on the numbers of nations participating in international sports or individuals participating in sports. There may be other valid approaches, such as levels of spectator participation.

Sport, recreation and tourism are all leisure activities.

In general, increased affluence is likely to increase the participation in any of these leisure activities because of increases in disposable income, and increased investment in leisure facilities and infrastructure. A greater range of leisure resources are more accessible because of the ability to meet transport costs and membership/access fees.

Accessibility is likely to increase with affluence. As affluence allows investment in more leisure facilities and infrastructure, so accessibility increases. Accessibility for minority groups can be increased because of investment.

Answers are expected to provide obvious comparison between the relative influences of affluence and accessibility. Answers that provide only description of the influences should be limited to markband D.

While examples are not a specific requirement of the question, those answers that provide supporting examples are likely to access the higher markbands.

Marks should be allocated according to the markbands.

This was straightforward for most candidates.

This was straightforward for most candidates.

This question proved more of a test, with many generalized claims made about specific sports that did not stand up to scrutiny.

"Accessibility" was better understood than "affluence" but a disappointingly large number of candidates overlooked the importance of the word "growth" in the question and therefore largely ignored reference to any temporal or spatial patterns of expansion/growth.