Contemporary Hospitality Industry

Contemporary Hospitality Industry
Introduction
Contemporary hospitality industry is a broad
category within the service industry which
specifically consist of lodging, theme parks,
cruise lines, travelling, event planning and many
other additional fields.(Ali, 2016) In addition to
this it can be defined as group of business who
render services to the customer's and focuses on
satisfying the customers and to provide specific
experience to them.
Hospitality industry is termed to be a larger part
of an enterprise which is specifically known as
travel and tourism industry (Bontis, 2015). This
type of industry refers to the group of business of
business which is being established with one
common goal that is to render desired and
necessary goods and services to the travellers. In
modern era travel and tourism industry has now
become the largest civilian industry in the world.
As per the statistic estimation one out of every ten people
among all over the world is termed to bet the part of travel and
tourism industry. In addition to this travel and tourism industry
are divided on to five major parts as lodging operations,
transport service, retail stores and activities like entertainment,
sports events etc.
Development of travel and tourism industry
Source: Total contribution of Travel and tourism to GDP in
the United Kingdom (UK) from 2012 to 2018, 2018)
Development of travel and tourism industry
Therefore, evaluation of the key milestones in
the development of the travel and tourism
industry is being taken place as travel for leisure
purpose has evolved. In history the ability to
travel was reserved for upper-class and for
royalty. (Bowie,2016) Modern tourism was
developed largely as a result of urbanization and
specifically recreation was termed to be
spiritual activity which has taken place through
church, although festivals and religious holidays
which has developed and rendered opportunity
for leisure pursuits. However, majority of
people lacked the desire to travel away from
their respective birthplace. Frequent travel was
mainly confined to the small elite and the ruling
class made up of Church leaders, large
landowners, monarch and their entourage. So
for majority of peoples the only possibility left
for long distance travel was linked to religious
crusade, time spent as a mercenary or to
pilgrimage.