Contemporary Hotel & Tourism Issues

Running head: CONTEMPORARY HOTEL AND TOURISM ISSUE
CONTEMPORARY HOTEL AND TOURISM ISSUE
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1CONTEMPORARY HOTEL AND TOURISM ISSUE
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Global tourism issues.................................................................................................................2
High tax and Fuel price increase issues.....................................................................................2
Safety and security.....................................................................................................................3
Global standardization issue and technologies enhancement....................................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
Reference....................................................................................................................................6

2CONTEMPORARY HOTEL AND TOURISM ISSUE
Introduction
Dynamic economic development and job creation opportunity are depending on
improved travel and tourism opportunity in the world. Travel and tourism contributed US$2.7
trillion and provide 119 million jobs worldwide. The GDP growth of the travel and tourism
sector is 4.6% and outbound travel industry improving as the market development process of
travel and tourism improves. There are some travel and tourism issues faced by the
companies and that mitigates the improving opportunities of the industry (Butler and
Ivanovic 2015). There are basically three main types of tourism like natural attraction,
cultural attraction and artificial attraction. The prime issues are safety and security of
travellers, high tax and fuel price increase, global standardization of hotel. The issues must be
resolved for the formulation of travel and tourism industry.
Global tourism issues
Tourism issues are creating a problem for the advancement of business. The
travellers, as well as the companies, are in the zone, where the business development has
stacked in an unimproved way. The problems are not only curtailing the improvement of the
business but also creating a genre where people are less-motivated and interested in travelling
(Hannam, Butler and Paris 2014). The issues will resolve by the effective strategic changes of
the organisation.
High tax and Fuel price increase issues
Tourism is high taxed industry and that is the reason most of the high tax collections
are accumulated from their end. The percentage of tax payment is depending on the airline
ticket, hotel rooms, locations, rental cars and so on (Jarvis 2015). The add-on taxes are
allocated by the government officials and the additional protection of the environment and