Global Tourism: Overview, Trends, and Growth Factors

Global Tourism
Destinations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Stats to present overview of nature and trends of tourism.....................................................3
P2 Characteristics of key tourist generating and receiving areas of the world...........................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
P3 Determining reasons for growth of global tourism generating and receiving areas of world.
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P4 Comparison and contrasting of differences between a range of emerging global tourism
destinations..................................................................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P5 Responsibilities of key international organisations in global tourism growth.......................8
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P6 Review of threats, issues and challenges to future development of global tourism..............9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
Books and Journals:..................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Global tourism is travelling of humans across the national edge or staying outside from
the usual environment. Tourism industry is the worlds biggest industry with an economic
contribution of more than 7.7 trillion. Now a days Economy is developing high possibilities or
opportunities for the global industry that allow people to go worldwide destinations easily. This
development brings economic hike in the nation. With the assistance of global tourism,
economic system of the country increases which influences overall living standards of people
living in the nation (Cornelissen, 2017). In this report, the current trends and scope of global
tourism are going to be discussed in an effective manner. In addition to this, reasons related to
the development of tourism is explain. Later, it explain various roles and responsibilities of
companies that is associated with the growth of global tourism. In the end the challenges, threats
and issues faced by the global industry which influence future growth is described in detail. This
will assist in identifying available threats and issues within stipulated time period.
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P1 Stats to present overview of nature and trends of tourism
Tourism industry is dynamic and changing day to day in entirely different manner, it is
because of new destinations , new technologies and so on. Due to changing in the economy,
travellers preferences, expectations and behaviour towards the global industry is changed on
continuous basis. It is identified that Online travel and Solo travellers are the two current trends
in the global industry. Along with this, it has also been analysed that tourism industry is one of
the fastest growing and leading industry which influence the economic system of the country in a
positive manner. These trends will be discussed in detail with the help of statistical graph:
Worldwide online travel: In today's competitive world most of the people prefer to
finalise their trips via online channels. It allow customers to save their time and book tickets in
an appropriate and faster manner. There are many apps that help customers to planned their trip
in effective manner. Online trends help tourism industry in order to increase their profitability
and sales and attract large number of customers towards their organisation (Ezeuduji, 2015). The
graph below describe the information about the growth of worldwide online travel:
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From the above graph stated picture it is analyse that entry of online channels for
booking changed the growth scenario of tourism industry. It is examined that the performance in
the year 2005 is at the point of 100 where as it increases from the year 2006 to 2008 but later
than decreases in the year 2009. On the other hand, it has been analysed that it increases in the
year 2010 and then continuously raise till 2016. This will assist in enhancing the brand image of
the travel and travel industry in an effective manner.
Solo traveller: Solo travellers are those who choose to go on their favourite destinations
alone. They are the one who generally builds the positive behaviour as well as attitude and make
other individuals free while travelling (Gössling and Peeters, 2015). It effects the tourism
industry in a positive manner and ensure that they do not harm feelings and emotions of large
number of customers. According to the data, it has been analyse that 28% of youth choose to
book tickets at own of their dreaming destinations. From the last five years, the percent of solo
travellers increases as every person wants to travel alone and capture large number of memories.
The tourism industry improve their quality of service in order to provide good service to its
customers without any distractions. This as a result assist in attracting large number of
individuals towards their industry which increases the overall profitability of the company and
provide opportunities to beat the competition.
With the help of above mentioned analysis, it has been said that both online as well as
solo travellers plays very essential role in travel and tourism industry. Each and every individual
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