Equality and Tourism: Analysis of Participation Issues in the Industry

This essay analyses the equality and participation issues in the tourism industry. It discusses the positive and negative impacts of tourism on the economy, environment, and society. The essay also highlights the importance of equality in the workplace and the promotion of women's rights in the industry.

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INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................4
FIRST CHAPTER...........................................................................................................................4
SECOND CHAPTER......................................................................................................................5
THIRD CHAPTER..........................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ..............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Tourism refers to cultural, economical and social process which entails the movement of
an individual to places, destinations or countries outside their usual atmosphere for the
professional or personal purpose (Abou-Shouk and Elbaz, 2021). In the tourism equity is the
important principle which addresses equity in use, distribution and access of products and
benefits from tourism. With the help of tourism, people can be offered equal opportunity in
income, work, education and skill development. They can also access equal technology,
control,resources, ownership and finance which plays an important role in empowering an
individual to take more equal and active role within the society. The main aim of this essay is to
analyse the equality and participation issues in the industry of tourism. There are some
importance of tourism to the management of global destinations future development. To develop
future global destinations one should stimulate the GDP growth as the tourism and travel
industry contributes up to more tan 10%of global GDP. It increases international trade as the
tourism and travel sector is the largest global export of the world. It also boosts the international
investment as it is the second largest fast growing sector in position of foreign direct investment.
People expect a lot form tourism industry as some individual travel to expand their point of view
about the world and some travel to challenge themselves (Alarcón and Cole, 2019). They expect
privacy, reliability, comfort, space, efficiency and convenience from the travel industry for the
better experience of travelling the destinations, places and world. The people travel to enjoy the
places culture, traditions, music, history and heritage, religion, art and architecture. They gain
knowledge and information about a lot of things with the help of travelling different kind of
destinations all over the world. The main attraction of the individual is the traditional culture of
the various places and destinations. Tourism provides more number of job opportunity to the
lower wage and lower skilled workers which can decrease the poverty and income inequality
within the each locations.
FIRST CHAPTER
In tourism industry, customers are the important aspect in the profitability, growth and
success of their business. The customer service provided by the tourism sector is based on money
and profitability (Apollo, 2021). Without the consumers in the tourism industry there is no
income because they are the key element for their day to day business. This sector is a key factor
in increasing the economy of the nation. Tourism industry gives the positive economic outcome

as it is the world major sectors of economy. It accounted 7% of global trade as it is comes under
third biggest export category and contributes 20% of countries GDP. The tourism sector provides
employment, generation of income to most of the people and foreign exchange earnings.
Tourism industry also focus on improving the infrastructure which includes airport development,
rail and road improvements, telecommunications and water supply improvement which means
utilities. At the same time tourism also have some negative impact on economy like because of
tourism industry there are traffic jams and overcrowding occurs on the places or destinations. In
the local shops or store the prices increases as tourists are considered to be more wealthy as
compared to the local people or population (Cole, 2018). The more number of people spend their
money in the destination or places where they visits eventually raises tourism sectors short term
revenue which helps them in achieving sustainable competitive advantage and long term stability
in the market. Tourism industry helps in the growth of economic activities and also boost it,
development of infrastructure, boost revenue of large scale industry and many more. It is also a
source of employment generations and foreign exchange earnings. The tourism industry impact
economic growth of various countries with the help of some factors which are education, greater
number of qualified professionals, industrialization, liberal trade policies, strategic marketing,
better advertisement and many more.
On society, tourism have positive impact like commercialisation of art and culture,
preserving the local heritage and culture, revitalisation of customs, forms and arts and many
more. Along with some positive impact there are some negative impact is also there of tourism.
The main effect of tourism is decline in traditional employment, it shows that the local people is
not getting more jobs as they employees the persons from all over the world (Li and Twining-
Ward, 2019). Second negative impact of tourism on economy is over dependency. Tourism
sector is fully dependent on the tourist as their whole income is earned due to large number of
people who visits the destination and place.
SECOND CHAPTER
Tourism industry is basically deals with tours and travels making by the people of
different community in various geographical areas. The tourism market is growing now a days
very effectively (Comer, 2018). People have different desired motivations and needs to take part
in tourism market. Some people obtain influence through endeavour whereas some gain through
their professions. There are different purpose behind tourism of the people. One of them is also

few event for which individual or group of person travels geographically. Olympics is the part of
events happening in the societies of different countries. It facilitate both domestic and
international tourism in context to Olympic organisation. It attracts tourists from different areas
which can be inside or outside of the country. The craze of Olympics is influencing day by day
into various economies that helps the new market to be emerged into tourism industry. It increase
the valuable tourism that helps to boost host country's trade including their exports and imports.
Different people have same motive of join Olympic games and to see. It influence their tourist
behaviour that helps to impact tourism market positively.
Olympic can impact travel of peoples domestically and internationally to influence
tourism. The expectations of tourists enhanced through rising of these events. It also impacts
hospitality industry in different ways (Nassani and Et. Al., 2019). As people come and take
hospitality services from host country so, it is appropriate to say that Olympics can influence the
hospitality industry. Massive media coverage is the key element that helps Olympics for
emerging into tourism industry. It is a event exposed by media to enhance popularity of host
country that can helps in creation of positive image. Media also helps the country to generate
international tourism that helps to develop their economy and enhance their growth in the
tourism industry. In the season of this event the behaviour of tourist get influenced to increase
their movement towards host country.
Emergence of new market can influence tourism industries likely in various ways. It can
also be accurate to say that emergence of Olympics market into tourism industry is very much
able to facilitate increasing needs and motivations of consumers in context to travel (Romo and
Et. Al., 2019). People can use travelling method like bikes, cars and buses to go domestically.
Whereas international trips requires boats and airways to reach at the host country. Duration of
travel are basically depends on the distance from where tourists are going to reach at the host
country.
THIRD CHAPTER
In any sector equality plays an important role as each and every individual wants to be
treated equal like others. In the companies each and every individual working for them wants
equality like they want salary and wages have to paid equal like others who are working on the
same position (Walters, 2018). In tourism sector, the organisations provides better quality of
working environment and personnel policy fairly so that their employees do not get demotivated.

They also promotes women equality in the society so that every women should be treated equal
in the companies just like men. They provide comfort and luxury services to their customers so
that they can feel safe, comfortable and satisfied. Tourism companies gives good environment at
workplace, fair salary and many more so that their employees feels valued and complete their
work effectively and efficiently. This helps them in attracting more number of customers in order
to attain organisational success and goal. As the staff of the firm is motivated they perform their
task with full dedication and treats their customers properly which directly increase the revenue
and profitability of the company. Tourism industry focuses on the rights of people like gender
pay gap, in this the women have to be paid equal to the men in a fair manner. They perform their
task as equal to the other men who are working in the organisation but still sometimes they are
not paid as much as salary which is paid to others in the company. It also focuses on moral and
ethics behaviour, it is related to the right or wrong conduct. All the ethics of the company is
compulsorily have to be followed by all the employees where as morals is related to the
principles of an individual related to what is right and wrong.
Tourism sector to attract more number of people and to get success they used to develop
the destination and places by time so that it can looks attracted all the time and large number of
people visit the destination. They also provide employment to the unemployed people which
directly increases the economy of country. There are various positive as well as negative impact
of tourism on destinations and place (Zhang and Zhang, 2020). They provides large number of
jobs to the people all over the world and provides quality of life to the local people by
developing the destination or place with respect to the time. Tourism sector earn more revenue
and money for their country and that money also can be used to protect natural calamities in the
various destinations. The new technologies and facilities which are given to the customers it also
benefits the locals of the country. At the same time there is also some negative impact of
tourism on destinations and places like their traditions and culture keeps on changing due to
mass arriving of the people for visiting that particular place or destination. Due to the mass
tourism there is a damage to the natural atmosphere and environment. It also causes overweening
in the places and destination and traffic jams which affects the environment. The prices of the
local stores in the particular destination market increases because the people arriving there to
visit destination is more wealthy then the local ones. This sector puts huge stress on the local
land use which leads to increased pollution, soil erosion, more pressure on endangered animals

and species, natural habitat loss and many more. People comes to visit the different destination
wants to stay in the clean and safe places so that they do not feel homesick and travel their
desired destination properly. So it is very important to provide better hotels and place to stay as
most of the people mainly focuses on that. Tourism sector gives a lot of information and
knowledge to large number of people of the heritage and culture of many places and destinations.
So the individual who is interested in gaining knowledge about the different places then it is the
best option to adopt.
CONCLUSION
The important finding of the above report is that the tourism plays an important role in
the economy of the country as it contributes 20% of GDP. It helps most of the people all over the
world by providing them large number of employment, good and safe environment, knowledge
about the culture and heritage and many more. Tourism industry have both negative and positive
impact on the society as the large number of customers travels to the destination and places to
visit. It provides more jobs, development of infrastructure, new facilities to the both local people
and customers, revenue to the people and many more. At the same time it also effect the
environment and the endangered spices, raises the prises of the products and shops as they think
that the customers are more wealthier than the local ones. It provides knowledge and information
about the heritage and culture of many destinations, places, countries to the large number of
people all over the world. Which helps them to visit the best and desired place and get satisfied.
tourism have positive as well as negative impacts on various economies and destinations. It may
leads to influence the growth of economy by increasing their export and imports and enhancing
the hospitality business of destined country. Increase in tourism also leads some negative impacts
like pollution and imitability to culture of their country. It encourages the economic growth by
contributing in GDP of destination economy and by increasing their global trade. Every country
is influencing tourism in their geographical area as it can leads in overall development of
economies across the world.

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