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Function of Government in Tourism Sector UK - Report

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Function of Government in Tourism Sector UK - Report

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................1TASK 1......................................................................................................................................11.1 Key historical developments in the travel and tourism sector..........................................11.2 Structure of the travel and tourism sector.........................................................................2TASK 2......................................................................................................................................32.1 Function of government, government sponsored bodies and international agencies intravel and tourism...................................................................................................................32.2 How local and national economic policy influences the success of the travel andtourism sector.........................................................................................................................42.3 Implications of political change on the travel and tourism sector in different countries.4TASK 3......................................................................................................................................53.1 Explain factors affecting tourism demand........................................................................53.2 How supply has changed to meet the effects of demand in UK.......................................6TASK 4......................................................................................................................................74.1 Evaluate the main positive and negative economic, environmental and social impacts oftourism....................................................................................................................................74.2 Strategies that can be used to minimise the negative impacts while maximising thepositive impacts......................................................................................................................8CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................9REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION At present, tourism has become a worldwide developing sector. According to the WorldTravel and Tourism Council (2001), 10 percent or even more economic output at global levelare produced by tourism activities. Moreover, it is the main industry of creating foreignincome rather than import and export industry. The tourism is also seen as globalphenomenon with huge infrastructure. The below report is focusing on travel and tourismenvironment by taking example of famous tourist destination UK. It is attracting 30 millionsof tourists from other regions each year. Also, people from different corners of world travelto several destinations of UK for exploring rich vibrant culture of city, viewing impressivemonuments and take theatrical presentation in the West End. The content of paper here isexplaining history and structure of travel and tourism sector together with its impacts oneconomic policy, international agencies as well as on government. The demand and supplyimpacts on the industry is also discussed and the summarized by tourism positive andnegative influences on the society and economy as a whole. TASK 11.1 Key historical developments in the travel and tourism sectorIn the 18th century, two aspects culture and health encourages the beginning of morewidespread and regular tourism. People who were capable to afford started visiting seasidetowns. Such visits benefited Europe from spring waters and fresh air. Later, English peoplestarted taking educational trips for studying architecture and agriculture, many also used to goItaly to get knowledge about painting. Moreover, people started taking much interest inexploring historical places. From the 19th century, this sector become steadily successful andpopular but was still restricted to few people only as it was expensive (Lyall, 2005). Since theSecond World War end in 1945, the global tourism and travel industry had well improvedand now considered as dominant and biggest sector in the world. In 1960s, people increasedincome level enhance their desire to visit different place. Moreover, commercial aircrafts insame era were able to carry travellers from one destination to other at reasonable tickets.These modifications played a great role and affected mass growth in visitor’s numbers, whichinfluenced unexpected growth in facilities like fishing villages, resorts, family tour services,holiday packages and hotels. In past 40 years, the developments in this industry has beenshaped several factors, which are divided in following categories:1
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Product development – The sector is making some new product development all the time forfulfilling customers’ demands. It is mainly because of the industry’s capability to introducetravel related products and services for domestic, outbound and inbound tourists (Ashley,2000). Disposable income – It is the amount remain with individuals after paying for daily lifenecessities like mortgage, bills, etc. The last 1990s recession of UK saw the reduced demandfor holidays at overseas destinations, which was mainly due to unemployment fear(Davidson, 1998). Modifying socio economic conditions – From Second World War, these aspects add to thegrowth of travel and tourism industry. The leisure activities time in past some years has beenimproved greatly in UK. Now, the particular nation people enjoy their holidays with no fearof money shortage while returning at home. Such paid holidays have increased demands forseaside resorts and hotels (Basu and Marg, 2010). Technology development – Transport has improved greatly in past few years. Ships, trains,aircrafts, etc. can carry travellers from one place to another more safely and quickly.Technological advancements in the aircraft design after the Second World War meant thatairways became presented as most common transportation system since 1970. Also, there iswell updated travel like Euro tunnel and Hovercraft, which are quite cheap to travel todifferent destinations. Moreover, travel because of technical advancement is comfortable andsimple now and consumer very less time that again contribute in demand increment(Goeldner and Ritchie, 2006). 1.2 Structure of the travel and tourism sectorThe structure of UK travel and tourism industry is as follows:Attractions – These are either natural or man-made. Natural attractions include Lake District,Blackpool Beach, etc. that has approx. six millions of tourists each year. On the other side,man-made attractions include those are specifically developed for tourists. For example, awell-known theme park, Alton Tower is especially constructed for families. Some otherfamous attractions of county are London Tower, Eden Project Legoland Windsor, LondonEye and many more (Gyr, 2010). 2
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