Tertiary and Quaternary Activities
Class 12 Geography · Fundamentals of Human Geography · Chapter 6
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Summary
Tertiary activities are services that rely on specialised skills, experience and knowledge rather than on processing raw materials, and they include both the production of services and their exchange through trade, transport and communication. As economies develop, most workers shift into the service sector. Trade and commerce involve buying and selling, organised through rural marketing centres, periodic markets and specialised urban marketing centres, and through retail trading (in stores or non-store forms like the internet) and wholesale trading. Transport carries people and goods, measured as km-distance, time-distance or cost-distance, and forms networks of nodes and links. Communication transmits words and ideas, and telecommunications, satellites and the internet have made it nearly instantaneous and independent of transport. Services range from low-order ones like grocery shops to high-order specialised ones like consultants and physicians; tourism is the world's largest tertiary activity and medical tourism is growing in countries such as India. Quaternary activities are knowledge-oriented, centred on research, development and the collection, production and dissemination of information; over half the workers in developed economies are in this knowledge sector. Quinary activities are the highest-level decision-making and policy services, often called gold-collar professions. Outsourcing and off-shoring of IT-enabled work, including BPO and KPO, have created new jobs in countries with cheap skilled labour, while unequal access to information and communication technology creates a digital divide between and within countries.
Key terms
Tertiary activities
Service-sector activities that depend on specialised skills, experience and knowledge rather than on processing raw materials.
Quaternary activities
Knowledge-oriented services centred on research, development and the collection, production and dissemination of information.
Quinary activities
The highest-level decision-making and policy services, often called gold-collar professions.
Outsourcing
Contracting out work to an outside agency to improve efficiency and reduce costs; off-shoring is outsourcing to overseas locations.
Digital divide
The uneven access to information and communication technology between and within countries.
Medical tourism
The combination of medical treatment with international tourism activity.
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Which one of the following is a tertiary activity?