Contemporary issues facing tourism

Tourism is a lucrative industry, but it faces several contemporary issues such as security and safety, human activities and climate change, and global standardization. These issues affect the industry globally and have led to a decline in tourism activities. This article explores these issues and their impact on the tourism industry.

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Contemporary issues facing tourism
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Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Security and safety...........................................................................................................................2
Human activities and Climate change.............................................................................................3
Global standardization.....................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
Reference.........................................................................................................................................4

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Introduction
Think of how much it cost for flight from one continent to another, how much accommodation of
just three people can cost for only one week in a hotel. Those are only two examples proving that
tourism is a very expensive field. This implies that the country toured then receives an equitable
amount on taxes and businesses booming during the peak seasons. However this field has been
affected globally by factors like the global standardization, human activities and climate change,
and security (Belias, et al 2017).
Security and safety
Surprisingly, even the strongest man in the world minds his safety and security. No one can play
a trial and error game in the name of refreshment. In the recent years the crimes rate have been
increasing daily globally. Tourists are believed to have a lot of money and that is the reason they
afford such luxuries of taking flight to alien lands for the purpose of refreshment. This is the
main reason why tourists are always targeted by the gangsters globally. The question on
possibility of being attacked comes first when the tourist incline his thought to his security. If
such incident has happened before to the same tourist or another, the high chances are he will
change his mind for the touring place (Chaperon & MacLeod, 2017).
There are also countries that still exercise racism; people have died in this tragedy. It definite;
when you think of touring these places, the next thing to think of is death. Else is the country’s
civil wars caused by political instability and boundary issues. It rings no bell of possibility of a
tourist to take a flight to another country only to land on the battling field in the name of
enjoying the fascinating scenes of that land or animals (Gius, 2017).

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With the diseases outbreak, tourism is not left unaffected. With the recent case of Ebola outbreak
in the North of Africa the tourism field drastically dropped in average the number of visitor they
used to receive. This is simply because no one can afford to take a flight, pay high charges for
the flight and accommodation only to take the flight back infected or in the coffin (Yoboue &
Antwi, 2018).
Human activities and Climate change
Deforestation in search for fuel and space for the man to settle has changed the climate over the
years. This has resulted to reduced rainfall and destruction of the natural habitats of the animals
and plants that used to be attraction sites like the swamps and lakes. If logging implies low
rainfall the water in the will drop its level and possibly the lake will finally dry off. If flamingoes
and fish were attraction flag bearers in this place, the tourism is buried (Wright, and Sharpley,
2018).
Industrialization has also played part in climate change, the running machines using petroleum
fuel products emit smoke in the air leading to the formation of the ozone layer. Heat energy from
the sun has a lot of energy and penetrates through this layer but on reflection the rays have little
energy and cannot penetrate through the ozone layer. When this heat is accumulated around the
earth surface over a long period of time it causes global warming. Consequently the snow the
tourist enjoyed skidding on melts away and flow to the sea (Sun, Zhou & Wang, 2017).
The change in climate has been gradually killing tourism activities. Once up, there existed
dinosaurs, today we read of their existence in history books (Khoo &Yang, 2018). The reason
being the destruction of habitats they were living on. If the animals exists no more, this
concludes that the tourist who used to tour to that particular place just to see how this animal

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lives, feed and survive will no more take a flight with the same agenda (Hales, and Jennings,
2017).
Man himself has killed the industry of tourism through selfish activities of poaching in the name
of wild meat, ivory, hide and skin. For example Kenya is doing a campaign on conservation of
the white rhino. The animals are just few in the world Kenya having the largest number count
that is less than 1000 animals. But what has led to this? Poaching is the answer. If for example in
30 years time the white rhinos will cease to exist in Kenya then, what is the attraction that will
draw tourist to the place? (Farmaki & Antoniou, 2017).
Also interference with the natural habitat of tourist attracting animals is as dangerous as betting
on your life. In the same example of the white rhinos of Kenya in this year they lost about nine
of them in attempt of transferring them from one park to another (Sato, Tseng, Ye & Huan,
2017).
Global standardization
Knowledge is power. Man has brought to him the sceneries of attraction at the door of his house.
He no more needs to travel in the name of touring. He has built animal orphanage providing
favorable environment for the rare animals. Instead of travelling to Asia from Europe to see a
tiger man is rearing these animals (O’Rourke, 2017).
If you take a flight to Dubai, Miami or a city in Australia and get into a shopping mall, there is
high likelihood that they deal with almost similar variety of goods. This means that no individual

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then will board flight to Miami from Dubai in search of a particular item only available there
(Phillips & Moutinho, 2017).
Conclusion
However large amount of income is generated from tourism industry, it is not the maximum and
there is high probability that the amount received from the tourism sector today will remain
being highest forever for the similar seasons. Unless man start conserving the environment rather
than degrading it, then tourism will be read on books in future. However the chances of reviving
the industry to its original status are minimal but there is always a way when the will is well set
(Rahman, Ullah, & Thompson, 2018).

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