Tertiary Activities p. 303-310

  1. Activities connected directly to the Earth through gathering, extracting, or growing raw materials.
  2. Industries that turn raw materials into products.
  3. A part of the economy that fulfills the exchange function, that provides market availability of commodities, and that brings together consumers and providers of services:
  4. What did many MDSs experience in the late 20th and early 21st centuries?
  5. What has risings labor costs in MDCs the growth of transnational corporations and the outsourcing of manufacturing produced?
  6. What are countries with advanced economies referred to that have a very high percentage of service jobs?
  7. According to figure 9.25, what percentage of the U.S. labor force in 2010, were tertiary workers? Secondary? Primary?
  8. Virtually all job growth in the past two decades occurred in what sector of the economy?
  9. GDP:
  10. Do MDCs or LDCs have a higher percentage of tertiary activities?

Types of Service Activities

  1. What are services performed by individuals called?
  2. What are services performed for corporations and other businesses called?
  3. What two things contribute to growth in the health care industry?

Locational Independence Theory for services

  1. By definition, what activities are market-oriented?

Look at and read Figure 9.27

Consumer Services

  1. Why did department stores leave downtown areas?

Tourism

  1. What is the world’s largest industry in jobs and total value generated?
  2. Around what percentage of the world’s GDP is travel and tourism?
  3. In what way has tourism become post-Fordist?
  4. What is the major problem with most jobs from tourism?
  5. Do tourist destinations ever go out of style?
  6. A form of tourism that focuses on education, minimizing environmental impacts and using locally owned services.

Gambling

  1. Is revenue from professional sports or gambling higher?
  2. In what state is Atlantic City?
  3. What two countries is Monaco near (not in book)?
  4. What country does Macau belong to?
  5. Around how many Indian casinos are there in the U.S.?

Producer Services

  1. What activities are highly dependent on communication?
  2. What types of tasks are typically involved in the front office?
  3. What locations are back office activities most cost effectively handled ?

Services in World Trade

  1. What have been the central elements in the internationalization of services?
  2. What country has been particularly successful in attracting outsourced service sector jobs?
  3. What does BPO stand for?

Look at figure 9.31,9.32, and 9.3