Contemporary Issues Affecting Tourism Industry

Contemporary Issues
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Topic: “Critically evaluate a range of contemporary issues affecting tourism industry and their
impact on career development profile”........................................................................................3
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Topic: “Critically evaluate a range of contemporary issues affecting tourism industry and their
impact on career development profile”.
Globalisation
Globalisation is defined as a procedure in which organisations or business develops
international influence and start conducting their business operation at International scale. In this
process there is a free flow of political activities, culture, economic activities, labour, raw
material etc among different countries. In addition to this globalisation is defined as a spread of
technology, products, and individuals across natural as well as cultural borders.
Tourism industry is a part of service sector and is one of the most important and leading
industrial sector in terms of income in many countries. This industry provides different type of
facilities to customers (Van Niekerk, 2017). In addition to this, this industry is also known as
travel industry and offer wide range of travelling facilities to consumers in a domestic and
international manner. This can be for social pleasure or business purposes. Tourism industry is
closely connected with hospitality and transport industry. Tourism is defined as an activity that
allows individuals to make free flow of movement from one location to other. It is defined as a
world largest industrial sector that drives economy of many nations in a best effective manner. It
has been identified that tourism industry provides different type of attractive facilities and
benefits to tourists. In this tourists are actually identified as an individual those who drive from
one location to other (Steele, Dredge and Scherrer, 2017). It has been identified that tourist
mainly get motivated by a wide range of factors like entertainment, refreshment of mind or body,
pursuit of excitement and more. Thus, in order to thrive mind sets of tourists in a well defined
manner tourism industry significantly attracts their attention with different type of attractive
benefits. In addition to this it has been identified that tourism not only ensures profitability of
organisation those who conduct their operation within industry but also provide different type of
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