Global Tourism: Nature, Trends, and Key Destinations

Global Tourism
Destinations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
1 Interpret statistics to accurately present an overview of the nature and trends of tourism on
global scale.............................................................................................................................3
2 Investigate the characteristics of key tourist-generating and receiving areas of the world.6
3 Determine specific reasons for the growth of key global tourism – generating and receiving
areas of the world...................................................................................................................7
4. Compare and contrast the differences between a range if emerging global tourism
destinations in relation to stages of the destination life cycle, factors driving growth and stages
employed................................................................................................................................8
5. Investigate the role and responsibilities of key international organisations in the
development of global tourism............................................................................................10
6. Review the various significance of various threats, issues and challenges to the future
development of global tourism.............................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
International tourism simply means motion of individual across national borders. As per
WTO, traveller are one who travels various places that is external for their regular environment.
People travels for different purpose such as business meets, exploring new places or other
personal reasons. Globalisation has raised more number of opportunities for travel and tourism
industry as it allows individuals to travel global destination that provides leisure experience to
them (Cornelissen, 2017). The present report examines nature of global tourism and its scale at
international level. It also describes about characteristics and development of developing future
markets. Furthermore, it provides description on the roles of key business enterprise that
contributes in growth of international tourism. Further, evaluation and revaluation various
challenges, issues and threats will be stated.
1 Overview of trends and nature of tourism industry at international scale.
Nature of tourism is changing with the passing time as taste and preferences of travellers
modifies according to their interest. In the starting time, people have started movement for
satisfying their requirement of food. This have further changed and evolved according to
changing behaviour of tourists towards their tourism destinations and upgrading trends in same
industry (Ezeuduji, 2015). Trends refer to the common track which states that development is
enhancing in industry. Aspects of trends includes short period of time, long term and
intermediate. In context of travel and tourism industry,
Global tourism statistics, trends and flow
Trends in tourism and travel sector includes various aspects such as visitors flow, revenue
generation, arrivals, market share expenditure etc. Analysis of this section is done by examining
all aspects for national as well as international tourism. These trends at all level are described as
below effectively.
For national tourism
As per survey conducted by tourism sector in the year 2018, it has been identified that
around 39% percent respondents have agreed that they prefers to go for on the spot booking.
The represented data states that because of raising trends of on the spot booking figure of
travellers within UK are enhancing every day. Within UK around 3.6 million visitors from

overseas visits destinations in the year 2019. This is approximate 9% higher than the records of
last year because of on the spot booking. Also these overseas travellers spends around £2.4
billion during their travel to UK (London Tourism Report, 2016). It states that growing figures of
traveller are increasing with the every passing year that is ultimately generating more revenue
generation of tourism sector.
For international tourism
At international level, numbers of tourist arrival in 2017 for most popular international
tourism nations in millions are Europe- around 671 , Middle East – 58, The, Africa- 65,
America- 207etc. These figures are constantly increasing with the emerging trend of ecological
and educational tours developed for tourists at international scale. It is a kind of touristry that
mainly explores undisturbed natural areas (International Tourism Results: the highest in seven
years, 2017). Travellers of now a days believes in exploring those areas which not only provides
them better experience but also enhances their knowledge. Influence of tour operators towards
these areas are bringing more funds towards ecological projects which is supportive in restoring
natural habitants (Gössling and Peeters, 2015). In 2018, tourism industry have generated revenue
approx £1.45 trillion from educational and ecological tours. Overall GDP of tourism industry is
47% in Germany, USA, China, UK and Japan.