Global Tourism Destinations

Global Tourism Destinations
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Lo 1..................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Interpret statistics to accurately present an overview of the nature and trends of tourism.....3
P2 characteristics of key tourist generating and receiving areas of the world.............................7
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................8
P3 Determine reasons for the growth of global tourism generating and receiving areas of the
world............................................................................................................................................8
P4 Compare and contrast the differences between emerging global tourism destinations in
stages of destination life cycle.....................................................................................................9
LO 3...............................................................................................................................................11
P5 Role and responsibilities of key international organisation in the development of global
tourism.......................................................................................................................................11
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................12
P6 Significance of various threats, issues and challenges to the future development of global
tourism.......................................................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
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INTRODUCTION
In recent times tourism industry is highly rising as with change in trends there is increase in
travelling as well. But still in some countries due to covid 19 some countries have ban tourism
(Al-Ansi and Han 2019). They have formed strict guidelines and protocols that need to be
followed by tourist arriving in nation. Furthermore, tourism is largest sector as it provide variety
of services to people. For many nations tourism highly contribute in generating huge revenue and
support in growth of GDP.
The report will describe about trends in tourism at global scale. Also, it will discuss features
of some tourist areas. Besides, reason for growth of tourism will be explained along with
comparison and contrast in it. Along with it roles and responsibilities of international
organisation in global tourism development will be mentioned as well. At last importance of
issues, threats, etc to future tourism development is shown.
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P1 Interpret statistics to accurately present an overview of the nature and trends of tourism
Since last few years, tourism is rapidly growing at fast rate. It has resulted in generating huge
revenue and income for many countries. Also, with change in trends such as lifestyle of people
their income has increased (Aqueveque, and Bianchi 2017). Moreover, many new areas of
tourism has emerged such as space, luxury, polar, etc. Thus, it has led to increase in tourism.
Apart from it, there are many sectors are interrelated with it such as food, beverage, etc. hence,
the nature of tourism is changing. It is explained as below :
 It is fastest growing sector at global level with booking of Approx. $1.6 trillion in 2017.
 Around 10 % of jobs are directly or indirectly inter linked with tourism.
 The company trip advisor generated around $324 million revenue in 2017.
 Booking. Com is world popular tour operator that has recorded around 443 million
visitors in 2018.
 The industry generated around 10.4% of GDP in 2017 at global level. So, it was an
increase of 4.6% as compared to 2016.
 In 2018 the arrivals of tourist increased by 6% as compared to 2017.
Moreover, it has been analysed by WTTC that in top 10 countries of world the tourism
contribution will be doubled in next 10 years.
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Figure 1 Number of tourist arrivals, 2017
Here, from above figure it can be stated that most arrivals was observed in US with 75.9
millions and it generated revenue of $210.6 billion in 2017. After that in Spain 81.8 million
arrivals was observed and in France it was 86.9 million. In Thailand the arrivals was 35.4
million.
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