Contemporary Issues in Travel & Tourism: A Case Study of Whitbread Plc

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN TRAVEL & TOURISM
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Table of Contents
LO1 Understand the latest problems occur in the travel and tourism sector.................................3
1.1 Examine present issues occur in the travel and tourism sector............................................3
1.2 Analyze various latest problems using proper methods and resources................................3
LO2 Understand present trends occur in the travel and tourism sector.........................................4
2.1 Evaluate latest trends affects Travel and Tourism sector......................................................4
2.2 Appropriate techniques and resources for analyzing the current trends................................6
LO3 Understanding of the responses to change taken by travel and tourism sector.....................7
Introduction..................................................................................................................................7
3.1 Analysis of the responses taken by Whitbread Plc to market changes..................................7
3.2 Developing the strategies for Whitbread businesses such as Premier Inn & Restaurants, and
Costa in order to respond to changes...........................................................................................8
3.3 Justification of the strategies for Whitbread businesses Premier Inn & Restaurants, and
Costa to respond to the changes...................................................................................................8
Recommendation.........................................................................................................................9
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................9
LO4 Discussion about the impacts of current trends on the travel and tourism industry..............10
Introduction................................................................................................................................10
4.1 Analyzing the impacts of issues and trends that effects in change in the travel and tourism
company.....................................................................................................................................10
4.2 Discussion about the outcomes of businesses failing to respond to current trends...........11
Recommendation.......................................................................................................................11
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................11
Reference List................................................................................................................................13
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LO1 Understand the latest problems occur in the travel and tourism sector
1.1 Examine present issues occur in the travel and tourism sector
Human resource: Skill human resource play a vital role in Titan Travel, human resource is the
one who choose the right candidate for the company all over the world. For company to stay in
this competitive world for a longer period, skill and trained employee is needed at each
department of an organization. Problems occurred at every department in a company, at top level
management sector experience lack of experience employee who can able take critical decision
for company. At Low level, management has to experience lack of skill candidate. Trained
manpower is needed to stay in a market for any company.
Rising cost of fuel: Titan travel is huge rely on fuel costs. The hike in costs of fuel like gasoline
affects the entire sector. According to the idea of Anwar (2016, p.56), the high hike in gasoline
many customers have to control on their spending limit and also reduce the vacation length
which ultimately decrease the profit of Titan travel. Titan travel experiences these challenges
and to deal with it, Titan travel start giving attractive offers to customers. The hike in costs of
fuel decreases the number of customer in a travel and tourism sector. Due to which many
companies have to bear losses.
Taxation: Government imposed a high on Travel and Tourism sector. The high taxes on an
industry decrease the development and it is hard to increase the territory for an industry. Various
type of taxes are imposed on Titan travel, Starting from tour operator, airline and hotels these are
the sector where titan travel has to give huge taxes (Hartmann 2014, p.166). Due to the high
taxes on various sectors, titan travel has to increase the price on customer’s package to get profit
from it. Different region has different taxation which needs to pay; otherwise it is hard it is hard
to visit.
1.2 Analyze various latest problems using proper methods and resources
Titan travel has to deals with lots of issue and trends which is changing day by day. One of the
important factors which affect Titan travel is safety and security threats which are always an
issue of country. Terrorism and natural hazard needs to handle sincerely. As in travel and
tourism sector, there is no medical facility is given to customer and no any insurance is provided
to the customer while travelling. Therefore, to handle with such problem while traveling
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