Tourism Industry Trends and Impact

This assignment delves into the contemporary travel and tourism industry. It examines the evolving trends shaping the sector and their influence on safety and security for tourists. The analysis also covers various types of tourism, including inbound, outbound, domestic, and their significance in the global context.

CONTEMPORARY TRAVEL AND TOURISM
1) Inter-relationship between different elements of Travel and tourism
2) Key roles of different elements
3) Developments in travel and tourism industry
4) Various key elements in travel and tourism industry and their role in creating an experience
for tourism
If there is a weakness in quality of food
and beverages it will affect the tourist
experience, if a tourist faces a
transportation problem in reaching his/her
destinations it will effect on the tourist
experience. If there is a weakness in
customer’s service it will dissatisfy a
tourist and will have bad experience.
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1) Inter-relationship between different elements of Travel and tourism
There are various elements in travel and tourism industry like customer service, accommodations,
transportation services food and beverages etc. and there is an inter-relationship between these
elements not a single component of this industry can operate without other elements like there is
interrelationship between tourists operators and travel agents provide customers to the hotels and
resorts, for providing food and beverages to the customers a hotels have to deal with the retailers, a
relationship between tourism service and transportation service as there is increase in tourism service it
will increase the transportation service and vice versa, relationship between hotels provide packages to
tour operators and tour operators gives to travel agencies and they bring customers to hotel.

2) Key roles of different elements
Tourist operator Customer Service Accommodations Accessibility
Its role is to set a link
between hotels and travel
agents in providing the
customers to both
Its role is to provide service
to the customers by
satisfying the needs of the
tourists.
It is the place where
customers get food and
shelter and there are
different types of
accommodations.
There should be
proper accessibility
available to tourists,
a continuous
transportation
facilities should be
provide to
customers, that too
comfortably and
with security.
These elements like tourist operators have interact with hotels for the accommodations and also for the travel
agents in order to provide transportation services to tourists.
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Key roles of different elements
3) Developments in travel and tourism industry
Historically travelling was only reserved for the royal people and for upper classes as it had been
expensive and with the limited transportation available. But nowadays due to technological
developments and improvements in transportation facilities have led to the global tourism. Now it
has become a part of life style. At present this industry represents an global economic growth, this
industry have made a huge developments like providing a good package tours which are affordable,
development in technology to attract tourists like booking of cabs and hotels and resorts online,
change in the legislations of different countries regarding T&T as it took place in UK, upgrade in
the hotel and travel services all across the world, increase in providing quality food due to change
in life styles of the consumers. There has been up gradation and tourists destinations and also
developments of new tourist’s destinations. An introduction to customers reviews which have a
great impact on the industry as now tourists check the review before choosing any destinations.
Period Why people
travel and
purpose
Travel agent usual distance
of travel
Any destination
1700th Business
religion survival
explore new
countries
No They travelled to
domestic more inter-
nation by sea
1800th Tourism become
business being
Cox and Kings
the 1st known
Yes Cox & Kings They become British
Royal Armed Forces
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Tourist operator Customer Service
Accessibility Accommodations
Key roles of different
elements

travel agency
1900th Then after
opening up of
Thomas Cook
tourism become
for leisure travel
agency
Yes Thomas Cook This helped Britons
to improve their lives
by seeing the world
and participating in
temperance
movement
2000th This decade that
followed is
considered to
have been a
significant
period in
tourism
development
online booking
grew up
Yes Almost all around the
world
2018 Global leader
Expedia had
expanded to
include brands
such as
Hotels.com, the
Hotwire Group,
Trivago, and
Expedia Cruise-
Ship Centres,
earning
revenues of over
$4.7 million
Yes Whole world
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4) Various key elements in travel and tourism industry and their role in creating an experience for
tourism
Various key elements and their role can be explained as:
Pleasant weather Cultural and historical
factors
Accessibilities Accommodations Safety and security
CONTEMPORARY TRAVEL AND TOURISM
Pleasant
weather
Safety and
security
Various key
elements
and their
role
Cultural and
historical
factors
Accessibiliti
es
Accommoda
tions

Depending up on the
weather of any
destinations tourists
are attracted towards
it. Some destinations
are warm and some
destinations are very
cold depending up on
the choice of tourist it
will help in creating
an experience for
them
These factors have a
tremendous impact on the
tourism. Many tourists
travel to experience these
factors across the world,
and these factors plays an
important role in
providing an experience to
travellers.
This facility is very
essential for any
tourist spot. There
should reachability
every locations better
the accessibility better
the tourist experience.
If a tourist is not able
to reach its
destinations it will
develop a bad
experience. So this is
an important factor
This is an important
factor for tourists
experience and cannot
be ignored. As tourists
visit stays at the hotel
with the excellent
facilities to stay and
with good customer
services and depending
up these facilities and
service may lead
positive as well as
negative experience on
the tourist.
At present with the
change in lifestyles
there has been increase
in the level of safety
and security of the
tourists. If the tourists
feel safe and secure at
any tourist
destinations it will
create a positive
experience in them.
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Inbound
This is that type of tourism which occurs when people are travelling from another
country to visit your own country. Like people coming from Spain to UK

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Domestic
While this is that type of tourism where resident of UK are travelling to UK only for
visiting UK only. Like planning for holiday to spent in same country.
Out Bound
This is that type where the people from your country are going to visit other country. Like people
from UK going to Spain

CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the report that inter-relationship between the different elements of
travel and tourism has an impact on the industry and weakness in one element resultants in the
weakness of another elements. This report also concludes that these elements are playing a major
role and have importance on the industry. Report also concludes that there have been a change in
the travel and tourism industry and have given rise to new trends in the travel and tourism industry
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