Global Tourism: Characteristics, Trends, and Top Destinations

Global Tourism
Destinations

INTRODUCTION
Global tourism means individual travelling around the world. According to the world
tourism organisation, tourist are those person who travel different places which are outside
regular environment. There are several purpose of travelling at different places like exploring
new places, business meets and several other. There is wide impact of globalisation on travel and
tourism industry as it allow individual to explore destinations which they want. This respective
report will going to examine nature of global tourism (Cornelissen, 2017). In addition to this, it
will also discuss characteristics and growth of emerging market and tourist destination at
marketplace. Furthermore, key business enterprises which contribute in growth of international
tourism will going to explore within this, moreover, last section of this report will going to
examine as well as evaluate several threats, challenges and issues face by global tourism
industry.
Tourism nature is termed as main aid of travelling as well it is getting change as time is
passing because taste and preferences of travellers are also getting modified as per their
feasibility and interest. At initial level, human beings are travelling for fulfilling their food needs
and wants. Furthermore it get change as well as evolved according to behaviour of tourist which
get change towards tourism destination and upgrading trends within respective sector. In addition
to this, trends are those general direction which state that improvement is taking place within
travel and tourism sector (Ezeuduji, 2015). Moreover, trends aspect involve short time period,
long term as well as intermediate.
 For national tourism – According to the survey conducted by government of UK within
2018 of tourism sector it has been determine that approx. 39% respondents are agree on
last minute booking. Such trends have strong influence on technological resources which
makes it easier for travellers and several other tour operators for managing last minute
tour plans. As per the presented data, it can be said that because of increasing trend for
last minute booking number of travellers are increasing day by day in United kingdom.
There are Approx. 3.5 million people who are travelling overseas with the motive of
visiting destination in 2019 (Travel trends that will drive the tourism industry, 2019). It
get increase by 9% within last year due to last minute booking. These overseas travellers
are spending more than £2.3 billion on their visits in United Kingdom. These clearly
depicts that continuous increasing number of travellers as time is passing on which result

in increasing revenue of travel and tourism industry. In addition to this, UK is also
generating £15 billion from visitors who goes for overnight visit.
 For international tourism – There are Europe- around 671 million people , The
America- 207 million people, Africa- 65 million people, Middle East – 58 million people
etc. travellers in 2017 who are visiting most popular international tourism nation (2017
International Tourism Results: the highest in seven years, 2017). In addition to this,
figure of these visitors are getting increase with emerging trends of ecological as well as
educational tours are developing for tourist at international scale. In simple term, it is
form of tourism which exploring undistributed natural areas as travellers now a days are
believe in exploring such areas which enhance their knowledge as well as provide better
experience. Such practices help in generating more funds for ecological projects that will
support in restoring natural habitants. Also, in the year 2018, by this industry revenue
generated from ecological as well as educational tours at international scale is approx.
£1.45 trillion (Global international tourism revenue 2000-2018). Collaborative travel and
tourism GDP of 5 nations China, Germany, Japan, USA and UK is 47%. This depicts that
majorly these nations holds good tourism destinations including most influential trend
that is ecological and educational destination.