Wordlist chapter 4-7

Samenvatting - Wordlist chapter 4-7

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• Accrue(d)

  To get advantages over a period of time.
• Aggravate

  To make a bad situation, illness, or injury worse.
• To bear

  To bravely accept something that is unpleasant.
• Biodegradable

  Material which can be destroyed by natural processes, in a way that does not harm the environment
• Biodiversity

  The number of different plants and animals in a particular place.
• Compulsory

  You are obliged to do something.
• Endangered

  In danger of being hurt, damaged or destroyed.
• Hand-in-glove

  Working together, often to do something dishonest.
• Harass

  to deliberately annoy or threaten someone
• Hedonistic:

  Believing pleasure is the most important thing in life.
• Host community 

  The people who live in the area that tourists come to visit.
• Humidity

  the amount of water that is in the air
• Indigenous

  Naturally existing in a place or country, native.
• Influx

  The arrival of large number of people or things.
• Lethargy

  having no energy, so you feel lazy or tired 
• Leakage

  The way which revenue generated by tourism is lost to other countries economies.
• Lush

  having a lot of green and healthy plants or leaves
• Peninsula

  a piece of land that is almost completely surrounded by water but is joined to a larger area of land
• Proceedings

  a series of things that happen in a planned and controlled way, for example in a meething
• To reap

  to get something, especially something good, because of the hard work you have done
• Safeguard

  a law, an agreement ect. that protects someone of something
• Siphoned off

  To take money from an organization or other source and use it for a purpose for which it was not intended.
• Sourcing

  The activity of finding and buying in materials of products.
• Squatter

  someone who lives in an empty building or on a piece of land without permission or paying rent
• Stakeholder

  Someone who has invested money into something and therefore is affected by its success or failure.
• Sustainable

  able to continue, especially without destroying the environment
• Trafficking

  Trafficking  the buying or selling of illegal good, especially drugs
• Amenity

  something that makes a place comfortable or easy to live in
• Baggage handling

  the system installed in airports that transports baggage from ticket counter to aircraft and from aircraft to baggage claim area
•  Benchmark

  Something that is used for comparing and measuring other things.
• To churn out

  To produce large quantities of something, especially without caring about quality.
• Confiscate

  To officially take away something from someone.
• Congestion

  Situation when there is too much traffic on the roads or in the air.
• Conveyor belt

  a long moving band of rubber of metal, used to move thing from one place to another
• Curfew

  a law that forces people to stay indoors after a particular time at night
• Downtown

  a lower part of the business center of a city or town
• To deter

  To stop you from doing something.
• To enforce

  to make people obey a rule of law
• Hub

  The central and most important part of an area or system.
• In transit

  goods or people in the process of being moved from one place to another
• Insight

  to gain understanding of
•  Inconvenience

  the quality of not being useful or convenient
• Pay-as-you-go 

  you pay something on your Phone or internet before you use it
•  Pax

  an abbreviation for passengers
• Revenue stream

  money that a business or organisation receives over a period of time, especially from selling goods or services
• Short-haul

   a short-haul aircraft or flight travels a fairly short distance
• signage

  Graphic designs used for identification or as a means giving directions or warning.
• slot

  a time assigned on a schedule or agenda
• trolley

  a cart on wheels, that you can use for carrying things
• tarmac

  The surface of an airport’s runway and the area outside airport buildings.