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Contemporary Issues in Travel & Tourism

   

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ContemporaryIssues in Travel &Tourism

Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................11.1 Issues driving change in travel and tourism sector...........................................................11.2 Analyse various issues with the help of different resources and methods.......................2TASK 2............................................................................................................................................32.1 Current trends influencing change in travel and tourism sector.......................................32.2 Analysis of a trend using appropriate techniques and resources......................................5Covered in poster....................................................................................................................5TASK 3............................................................................................................................................53.1 Respond to change in travel and tourism businesses........................................................53.2 Strategies to respond in selected travel and tourism businesses......................................63.3 Justification of strategies..................................................................................................7TASK 4............................................................................................................................................84.1 Impact of trends and issues that drive change in travel and tourism sector.....................84.2 Consequences of businesses which respond to market changes......................................9CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTIONSector of travel and tourism is one of the sector in which number of changes take placelarge scale in very short period of time. All this aspects largely affect the business operation oftour and travel companies. This area has a huge importance of social and technological changesas this largely affect the operations of this area (Hartmann, 2014). Various methods and tools arethere which can be used by the manager of an enterprise to deal with various contemporaryissues. Greenwich, which is a very popular place for tourism is taken under this report for study.Number of tourists from UK and other countries visit this place throughout the year. Variousfactor which drive change in travel and tourism sector and current trends in this sector whichinfluence the activities and number of visitors in various tourist destinations is detailed under thisreport. Various ways which can be use by British airways to respond to the changes take place inthis sector and main strategies which can b use by the enterprise to respond to those changes isall mention in this. Along with this, main issues and trends which drive change in this sector anddifferent consequences on businesses during respond to market changes in travel and tourismsector is described under this report.TASK 11.1 Issues driving change in travel and tourism sectorAt earlier times, tourism was a separated industry where umber of units played their rolein a individual manner and this lack of collective action was the main reason which negativelyaffect the growth of visitor economy and decrease the importance of tourism spot. Main issuesthat drive change in travel and tourism sector can be understood by following points:Technological advancement: This is one of the major issue that changed the concept oftravel and tourism sector at large scale. With the help of these aspects enterprise canchange and improve the quality of its services. One of the main example of this is thathospitality industry provide an opportunity to advanced booking to individuals and this ispossible with the help of technological advancements. With the help of this industry isable to improve the quality of its service and add more features in it which positivelyattract large number of customers (Luh Sin, Oakes and Mostafanezhad, 2015).Technological advancement is one of the factor which largely affect the concept of traveland tourism sector as online platform contribute a lot in its growth. Search engines andsocial media provide the facility to explore the best destinations and tourists can plan for1

their vacations by made a connection with firms. Major role of technology is that it allowthe facility of virtual tour to tourists. Various tour hotels and operators are makingeffective use of it. This positively improve the potential of travel and tourism sector. Increased environmental awareness: This is another element which drive number ofchange in travel and tourism sector. This have a high level of importance which preventthe nature from any kind of harm (Timothy, 2014). Development of trends such as greentourism promote the protection and safety of environment. Every member or party whichtake part in this process has their responsibility to contribute for the protection and safetyof various environmental resources. Wastage is required to be dumbed properly. Thiscontribute in improve and increase the knowledge about various environmental issues. Increased security: Arrangement for safety against any kind of threat for the communityor society is knows as security. Due to increase level of tourism on daily basis, improvemeasures of security has become one of the major challenge in front of government andtourism sector. Number of tourists are increasing rapidly and disposable income ofpeople on travel and tourism sector is high. But the concept of terrorism and socialsecurity impact on the growth and development of tourism on both international anddomestic level. Various countries have their own procedures which made the security oftourism very strict.1.2 Analyse various issues with the help of different resources and methodsIndustry of tourism is booming on a increasing level and revenues are generated on apositive note all this leads to economic growth of this sector and enhance the growth of visitor.One term which is use in tourism sector is ecotourism, which means tourists and travellers areresponsible for the safety of environment. It is found that social implication of travel areoverlooked. Negative impact: to identify the place of tourism it is responsibility of a traveller to understandthat silly mistakes can lead to a bitter experience of travel like offence of local citizens and theirculture can be possible to create a hurdle to take the travel up to the next level. Loss of culture: sometimes cultural value of tourists destination gets hamper when any kind ofmodification or alternation is done in the crafts to get the attention of visitors to give more valueto their want with the aim of better satisfy their wants, and in order t increase the sales volumeand number of profits (Reisinger, 2015). To fulfil the demand of tourist cultural value there is a2

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