Contemporary issues in hotel and tourism PDF

Running Head: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN HOTEL AND TOURISM
0
Contemporary hotel and
tourism issues

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN HOTEL AND TOURISM 1
Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................3
1. Security and safety issue............................................................................................................3
2. Technological advancement and climate changes.....................................................................3
3. Fluctuations in currency and increment in environment awareness.........................................4
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................6
References.............................................................................................................................................7

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN HOTEL AND TOURISM 2
Introduction
The hotel and tourism sector are the major tow sector that have took the changes to a very
large scale. It is true that all these aspects put a great impact on the business operation for
both the companies (Smith, 2014). Due to various changes, these two sectors are negatively
impact that is becoming hard to remove. Although, there are various challenges these sectors
is facing but the major issues are being described in the report. In the current scenario, safety
issue, currency fluctuations and technological advancement is highlighted. It becomes
necessary to remove these issues before the tourist loss interest in these sectors. These
challenges are necessary to remove in both underdeveloped as well as under developed nation
for their growth.
Three contemporary issue faced by hotel and tourism industry
1. Security and safety issue- security has become the one of the major challenge
for the tourism industry. It is true that the level of tourism is increasing regularly. Therefore,
improvement in security measures is the major challenge for the local government in
hospitality industry. Due to natural disasters, terrorist, epidemics, and local wars, security has
decreased. The tourism and hotel business could not able to reduce the negative influences of
these events. Every year, number of tourists increases too quickly. In recent time, due to high
disposable income of people, they spend on the travel and tourism. However, the terrorism
and social security has putted the impact on development and growth in the domestic and
international tourism (Bac, Bugnar and Mester, 2015). In tourism and hotel industry, various
security and protection problems create an unfavourable environment for the people. Due to
this, every people try to escape from the unpleasant and unfriendly environment.
Besides security, safety is also becoming the major challenge for the tourism industry. As
most of the population in today’s time is ageing. Although the generation is aging but the
tourism industry is seeing the aging people practising the physical activities from skiing to
motorcycling. Due to this, officials of tourism are facing all kind of safety issues. In this way,
safety concerns and security is the most significant issue that are being faced by hospitality
industry in today’s time (Beirman, 2016).
2. Technological advancement and climate changes - It is the second issue
that changed the aspect of tourism and hotel industry at large scale. By taking the several
measures, this industry can improve their quality of their service. For example- tourism and