Global Tourism Destinations

GLOBAL TOURISM
DESTINATIONS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P 1 Statistics to accurately present an overview of the nature and trends of tourism on a global
scale..............................................................................................................................................1
P 2 Characteristics of key tourist generating and receiving areas of the world...........................5
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................5
P 3 Reasons for the growth of key global tourism generating and receiving areas of the world 5
P 4 Differences between a range of emerging global tourism destinations.................................6
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................7
P5 investigate role and responsibilities of international organisations in development of global
tourism.........................................................................................................................................7
LO 4.................................................................................................................................................7
P6 Review significance of threats, issues and challenges to future development of global
tourism.........................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REREFENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Tourism can be defined as a travel which is for pleasure or for business. It includes
activities sightseeing, campaigning, visiting new places and many more. It has been observed
that disposable income of people is continuously increasing. Due to this increasing disposable
income of people tourism is increasing at global level (Morrison, 2018). In order to attract a
greater number of local and international tourist, generate and receive a greater number of
customers many countries are focusing upon adopting different kinds of strategies in order to
attract visitors, focusing upon development of their infrastructure so that a greater number of
tourists visit their region. Tourism industry has provide itself as a billion dollar industry which is
helping countries to increase their GDP or economy for development of their country or region.
This assignment will lay emphasis upon scale and nature of global tourism, growth and
characteristics of key emerging markets and destination regions, roles of key organisations in the
development of global tourism and threats, issues and challenges to the future development of
global tourism.
LO 1
P 1 Statistics to accurately present an overview of the nature and trends of tourism on a global
scale
Tourism industry is one such industry which is experiencing continuous growth and is
one of the fastest growing economic sectors (Pulido-Fernández and Rodríguez-Díaz, 2016).
Tourism industry also helps in increasing overall GDP of a country and helps in strengthening
overall economy of a nation. If overall data of past years is compared then it can be said that
tourist arrival at world wide tourism places is continuously increasing. Today tourism industry is
a billion dollar industry.
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Figure 1 international Tourist arrival by world region
Above figure clearly explains that international tourist arrival world wide is continuously
increasing globally all the tourist place present in the world. In past 68 years it has increased up
to 1.4 billion international arrival per year which is a drastic increasing in tourist arrival.
If overall world economy is compared in terms of GDP them in past 10 years world
economy in terms of visitors spending in this sector has only increased. It was highest in 2017
but reduced a bit in 2018.
Figure 1 International tourism receipts and world GDP in terms of % change
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