Contemporary Hotel and Tourism Issues in Delhi

Running Head: CONTEMPERORY HOTEL AND TOURISM ISSUES 0
Contemporary Hotel and Tourism Issues
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2/7/2019

CONTEMPERORY HOTEL AND TOURISM ISSUES 1
Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................2
2. Contemporary Tourism and Accommodation Issues.............................................................2
2.1. Market Potential of Tourism in Delhi.............................................................................2
2.2. Influences of Contemporary Transport Development.....................................................3
2.3. The current trend in Accommodation development........................................................3
2.4. Risk and Crises Management..........................................................................................4
2.5. Social Media Influences..................................................................................................5
2.6. Visitor Development Experience....................................................................................6
3. Conclusion..............................................................................................................................6
4. References..............................................................................................................................8

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1. Introduction
Tourism is travel for leisure, business, and recreational purpose. The tourist can be defined as
the individual who travels from one place to another along with the aim to recreate one as
well as services provided for such movement (Fang, Ye and Law, 2016). The tourism cover
under the industry of service in which there is a variety of tangible as well as intangible parts.
The tangible part covers the transport as well as hospitality services. Intangible services
include the rest, relaxation, escape adventure, as well as various other experiences (Boniface,
Cooper and Cooper, 2016). The industry of tourism is one of the rising industries in India. It
is considered as major foreign earnings for the nation of India. In India, Delhi is an ancient
culture cradle of the world that is considered an exotic tourist destination. It has enthralling
tourist destinations such as Red Fort, India Gate, Qutub Minar, Jama Masjid, Purana Quila,
and Raj Ghat and so on (Dixit, 2016). The foreign tourists long for a tryst with Delhi as well
as love to visit each and every corner of such vast sate in India. The tourism industry
contributed 6.23% to the national GDP as well as 8.78% of the total employment. However,
such industry is also facing the issue of shortage of labor. There are not enough rooms,
accommodation, as well as issue of cleanness that resist the tourist to visit Delhi (Ray, Das
and Kumar, 2017).
(Source: Delhi Tourism, 2018)

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In the following part, there will be a detailed discussion on the tourism industry in Delhi,
their market potential as well as challenges faced by them that affect overall industry at a
greater level.
2. Contemporary Tourism and Accommodation Issues
2.1. Market Potential of Tourism in Delhi
According to the analysis, the industry of travel and tourism industry in Delhi has the
prospective to propagate by 2.5 percent on the posterior of developed financial provision as
well as with low cost in the facilities of healthcare. Such industry has a huge potential in the
market that rises by 2.5 percent delivered the financial provision that as increased from the
recent 0.09 percent of the entire provision to at slightest 0.15 percent in the year of 2018-19.
The study also proposed that the development interventions, involving the infrastructure of
tourism development as well as the occurrence of tourism themes to swish the business
(Economic Times, 2017). The overall aid of Delhi travel and tourism towards GDP of India
was USD 208.9 billion, 9.6 per cent GDP in the year 2016 as well as it is also forecasted to
rise by 6.7 percent in the year 2017 as well as 10 percent of GDP in 2027 according to the
analysis and report of World Trade and Tourism Council (Geary, 2018). Approximately 8
million foreign tourists arrived in the year 2015 that has grown at a rate of 6 percent during
the period from the year 2007 to 2015. Delhi ranked at the first position in tourism industry
according to the survey, in which the eleven parameter that the researchers look after states
expenditure on tourism, number of tourists visits, GSPD per capital, movement of aircrafts,
number of branded hotels rooms, network of road and railway, marketing campaign, literacy,
ease of doing business as well as some other intangible aspects (Dwyer, 2018). Therefore,
Delhi being the capital of country and entry with the exit of major ports has several
advantages, especially in the terms of movement of aircraft and hotels rooms. It fares poorly