Contemporary Issues in Travel & Tourism

Contemporary issues in
Travel & Tourism

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Issues that are creates drive changes on travel and tourism sector.......................................1
1.2 Different current issue with appropriate methods and resources..........................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Current trends that influence changes in travel and tourism sector......................................3
2.2 How to expand in niche tourists market................................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
3.1 How international Airline group will respond to change......................................................5
3.2 Develop strategies through international Airlines could respond to change.........................6
3.3 Strategies for the selected International Airlines businesses to respond to change..............7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
4.1 Impact of issue and trends address the issue with the tourism agency.................................8
4.2 Consequences of businesses falling to respond the changes ................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Contemporary issue is the major drive that impact on travel and tourism industry in
significant manner. It determines the environment that are related to business operation for
assessing business problems. Furthermore, in order to shape the travel and tourism industry, UK
has many opportunities to expand their operations and functions in significant manner (Sotiriadis
and Apostolakis, 2015). Therefore, it demonstrates different activities that are playing in the
business and assess issues that are occurred related to day life. In this context, present report is
based on the Thomas Cook Group that operate effective functions and operations to leads with
profitable outcomes results. They are providing effective functioning in travelling sector
activities that assists to meet with goals and objectives. For gaining insight knowledge of the
present report, it covers issues that create drive changes in the travelling sector to develop
effective functioning in it. Furthermore, it includes issues that are determine solution with
different resources for developing effective functioning at workplace. Moreover, it includes
emerging trends that are creating effectiveness to develop effective functioning at workplace.
With this aspect, International Airlines Group has been selected that provide effective services to
evaluate and meet emerging demand of tourism.
TASK 1
1.1 Issues that are creates drive changes on travel and tourism sector
In the travel and tourism sector of the UK market, there are different issues taking place
and creating impact on its functions and operations. In this context, Thomas Cook Group
provides various services to attract customers in the country (Becker, 2016). Following are
certain issues that are drive change and create impact on the travel and tourism sector:
 Technological advancement: It is the one of the major issue that creates certain changes
in the travel and tourism sector in large manner. In order to increasing these aspects, the
chosen business required improves quality and services. In this context, main example
can be seen that is hospitality sector enterprise that are continuous making advancement
(Dickinson, Ghali and Norgate, 2014). In this industry, quality of services also improves
that done through adding more features that helps to attract large number of people. It
creates lot of growth in the travel and tourism sector so that it impacts in the large context
within the business environment. Search engine and social media also facilitate to expand
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destinations and tourists in holiday to connect different businesses. Major role of this
technology is to create facilities for development of tourists and tour (Inversini and
Masiero, 2014). Tour operators are also making facilities to improves effective services
in the travel and tourism sector.
 Increasing in the environmental awareness: It is another important element that drive
number of changes in travel and tourism sector. It impacts highly and creates awareness
towards the harm in the tourists' attraction (Yuan, Gretzel and Tseng, 2015).
Development of these types of trends consists as the green tourism that promoted through
protection and safety of environment. Every person need to take part in this process so
that responsibilities will be increasing continuously that assists to contribute effective
part. Wastage also need to be taken in proper way in rubbish and dustbin. It contributes in
the improvements and increasing knowledge for the different environmental issues
(McKercher, Mackenzie and Pang, 2014).
 Increased security: In this aspect, arrangement require for proper safety and solution for
the particular threat in the community and society. In order to increasing the level of
tourism, security improvement also required at workplace. It is the major challenge in
front of tourism sector so that objectives and goals will be accomplish in significant
manner. Concept of the tourism develops in international and local level as well (Kwok,
Kwok and Richards, 2017). Hence, several countries follow their own process that make
security in tourist attraction.
1.2 Different current issue with appropriate methods and resources
Travel and tourism industry also increasing their level of efficiency which generate more
money. In this aspect, economic growth will be promoted that increasing growth of customer
attraction as well. Eco-tourism is the effective element in current time that enhance tourists and
travellers that are responsible to make effective results in the safety (Buhalis and Foerste, 2015).
Following are certain issue with methods explains that make effective results in the nation:
Terrorism and counter to measure the terrorism: With this regard, the tourism
industry has main aim is to protect tourist’s destination from terrorist’s activities. There are
various areas in all over the world in which terrorism activities impact on the customer attraction.
In addition to this, political climate also increase threat for their own life (Luo, Zhong and Meng,
2017). There are also certain attack such as Bomb, influence to customer and they are not
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