Contemporary issues in travel and tourism

Contemporary
issues in travel and
tourism

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Current issues driving changes.............................................................................................1
1.2 Analyse current issues by using appropriate methods .........................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Current trends influencing change in travelling sector.........................................................3
2.2 Analyse current trends using appropriate methods (Covered in Poster)...............................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
3.1 Analyse response towards change in travel and tourism sector............................................5
3.2 Strategies development in relation to response to changes by selected business entity.......6
3.3 Justify the strategies which are using in response to modification.......................................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
4.1 Impact of issues and trends on driven business context........................................................8
4.2 Consequences when business get failed to deal with changes..............................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Travel and tourism is one of the largest sector over the world. It is also liable for
economic growth and development of different countries. UK is known as most famous city for
the purpose of tourism (Becker, 2016). Tourism sector also has covered different areas, such as-
hospitality, food, banking transportation etc. Thomas Cook is the chosen organisation in this
present assignment; it deals in providing travelling services to people. The group has its own a
number of tour operators and airlines in UK. Thomas Cook provides its services all over the
world and its operating income is £308 million. Apart from this, the present report will be
described current changes in the travel and tourism sector. There are certain changes that can put
an impact on business activities; thus, managers have to make strategies so as to quick respond
towards these issues.
TASK 1
1.1 Current issues driving changes
Tourism is the fastest growing sector, but in past years there are revealed certain changes
in terms of growth and development. But, such alternations also generate some issues that might
be affected the sector. Therefore, managers have to make developed effective strategies and
policies in order to reduce these issues. Below described are major changes which can driven up
change: - Technological advancement – In this modern era, travelling companies, like Thomas
Cook is are tend towards adopting different tools and techniques in order to provide
effective and qualitative services to customers. So that technological advancement is also
the major issue that has changed the dimensions of this industry. For example- hospitality
and transportation industry are rendering the facility of advance booking; it can be done
through by effective uses of techniques. Apart from this, firms are also using further
technological aspects in order to improves its sales and profitability (Cohen and Cohen,
2015). Increased environmental awareness – It is also a crucial factor which bring changes in
travelling industry. Environmental awareness relates with the high level prevention of
nature regarding any harm. Along with this, green tourism is developing day by day in
order to promote environmental protection. Now these companies, companies are active
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towards environmental awareness at a very wide spectrum between tourists. Due to
higher level of tourism, business entities are improved its efforts.
 Increased security – Security against any kind of harm or threat within society. As the
level of tourism is increasing, safety and security is becoming one of the major issue for
travelling sector as well as local government. The number of visitors is increasing day
day because of their disposable (Cohen and et. al., 2014). But terrorism put a huge impact
on growth and advancement of international tourism in negative manner.
1.2 Analyse current issues by using appropriate methods
Travel and tourism is known as one the dynamic industry that is affected by different
sectors. These problems are generated through number of visitors and their interests as well.
Manchester city is one of the best tourist destination; it has wide cultural history. On the basis of
journals and articles, Manchester has been ranked in top 10 cities over the globe. In 2015, people
spent around £900 billion and almost 1800000 tourists were visited the location. Instead of this,
travelling companies are facing several issues and problems, such as- terrorism, in stable
political conditions, strict laws, global warming etc.
In UK, the unstable political situations generates different issues which can affect
working activities of Thomas Cook. The government is not much supportive and the strict laws
ruin the interest of visitors. As the firm is operate in all over the world and it is very tough for
organisations to follow all these rules and legislation (Connell, 2013). Apart from this, global
warming is also an important problem of travelling companies. It effect the ecological balance of
the globe by influencing wildlife.
Different taxes and payment modes are also affecting travellers the hamper the growth
and development of travelling companies. People are not preferred to take travelling advantages
due to high taxes and duties. It results, individuals starts avoiding to visit any place. Apart from
this, due to poor management, companies are not able to provide effective customer services to
their visitors. Terrorism is one of the biggest issue in tourism sector UK is facing such problems.
Recently, United Kingdom had blasted in which many people were lost their life. Beside this,
globalisation is also in major issue that have an negative impact on travelling industries, such as
Thomas Cook. In UK, there are several foreign companies implemented which can affect growth
and development of existing companies.
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