Contemporary Travel and Tourism Industry

CONTEMPORARY TRAVEL AND
TOURISM INDUSTRY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................2
Key historical developments in travel & tourism industry that shaped international travel and
tourism sector...............................................................................................................................2
Elements of travel & tourism industry.........................................................................................3
Role of components and their interaction with each other to cater a tourist experience.............4
Interrelationship between varied elements of sector and weakness in one can impact tourist
experience....................................................................................................................................4
LO2..................................................................................................................................................4
Tourism influencing factors between destinations and generating nations.................................4
Factors that affect tourism behavior.............................................................................................5
Evaluate impact of factors on decision making procedures.........................................................6
Models of motivation and its influence on tourist decision making process...............................6
Evaluate connection between key drivers to tourist nature and popularity of varied tourism
destinations & experience............................................................................................................8
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................8
Recent and emerging patterns as well as trends in global travel & tourism environment...........8
Highlight the importance of trends and patters in development to tourism sector internationally
......................................................................................................................................................9
LO 4.................................................................................................................................................9
Factors affecting popularity of range of global destinations........................................................9
Analyze factors for varied destinations and their importance level in context of destination’s
popularity...................................................................................................................................10
Evaluate connection between key drivers of tourist behavior and popularity of several tourism
destinations & experiences.........................................................................................................11

CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Hospitality sector is part of a wide enterprise known as travel & tourism sector, this
industry is large group business with one aim in common that is to cater essential and desired
services or products to travelers. Travel and tourism is one of the biggest industries in world,
with total contribution of more than Billions pounds to nation GDP. It has now become largest
civilian sector in the world, accordant to statistics one out of every ten individual worldwide is
part of this industry.
The current study explains historical developments in industry that shaped worldwide
travel & tourism industry. It also explains varied elements of this industry that create tourist
experience. This report justified tourism influencing factors between generating nations and
destinations as well as those elements that affect tourism behavior. Furthermore, this study
explains models of motivation that influence customers decision making procedure in tourism. It
clarifies recent and emerging trends & patterns in international travel and tourism environment
and also describes factors impacting popularity of range of global destinations.
LO 1
Key historical developments in travel & tourism industry that shaped international travel and
tourism sector
Travel and Tourism industry has grown continuously with change of human nature and
their expectation. There was a period structured with data approximately from 1945 when
progress in this sector was seen. Individual seek to spend their time to varied places those from
others where they have been already (Séraphin and et.al., 2018). Changes in people behavior as
well as their expectations from travel and tourism has made possible for industry to keep level up
with other sector. Grand tour, holiday campus, British Seaside resort and start of mass tourism
included in discussion of historical development in travel and tourism industry. It has a big been
improving since 19th century where earliest travelers were walking domesticated animals.
Innovation or invention of technologies provided new ways of transportation and enhanced
people chances to travel all around the world. So, it can be said that people craze about travelling
and changes in many things such as technology, passengers demand etc. shaped global travel and