The number of tourists travelling to spend their free time elsewhere than in their country of residence has exceeded 1.2 billion, which means that one in six people on the planet travel for tourism purposes. The world economy at the moment undergoes two revolutions, one in the field of IT, and the other in the field of tourism. Tourism is a factor of economic growth; it creates and maintains workplaces, every 11themployee on the planet works in a field from the travel and hospitality industry. Tourism is a factor of social transformation, facilitating an unprecedented closeness between cultures and civilizations in history, people travelling to increasingly remote places compared to their own location, meeting other people, discovering other food, other music, other habits, and instant and always peaceful cultural exchanges take place within this cultural process. In this context, the world crisis in education determines the increase of the demand for education (despite the financial humiliations from the national education system) The establishment of the need to change in the practice of teaching, learning and evaluation of tourism geography is supported by the developments recorded by the specialized university education, by the ecological trend (launching optional subjects as well) and by the methodological enrichment, which have produced the transfer of geography from the category of natural sciences into that of social, economic, analytical, statistical sciences, shaping even "a new geography" in line with the geopolitical changes. (C) 2017 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.uk
