Global Tourism Destinations

Global Tourism Destinations
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
LO1..................................................................................................................................................3
P1 Overview of nature and trends of tourism on global scale.....................................................3
P2 Characteristics of key tourist generating and receiving areas of world..................................4
M1 The way scale and nature of tourism have influenced emerging economies........................5
D1 Critical evaluation of impact of both key and emerging market, factors that are affecting
global tourism..............................................................................................................................6
LO2..................................................................................................................................................6
P3 Determination of specific reason for growth of key global tourism......................................6
P4 Comparison between range of emerging global destination with relation to stages of
destination life cycle, factors driving growth and strategies employed.......................................7
M2 Compare importance of different factors affecting and driving tourism..............................8
LO3..................................................................................................................................................8
P5 Role and responsibilities of key international organisation in development of global
tourism.........................................................................................................................................8
M3 Evaluation significance of organisation in growth and development of global tourism.......9
D2 Recommendations to government and international companies within tourism................9
P6 Threats and challenges of future development of global tourism.........................................9
M4 Implications of various threats and challenges..................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTION
Due to innovation in technology and availability of several alternative options to people
to travel across worldwide through aeroplanes, train and bus have contribute in growth and
sustainability of global travel and tourism. It was founded that 9.26 trillion US dollar have been
contributed by Tourism in global economy therefore it is one of the rapid growing industry
across worldwide. It has helped in generating across 330 million jobs i.e, 1 in 10, 4.3% of total
investment has been made in tourism sector so that more and more visitors are interested to
travel across worldwide for having fun and leisure.
This report has contained statistic to represent nature and trends of tourism on global
scale, characteristics of key tourism that helps in generating and receiving areas of world. It has
also include compare between emerging global tourism, roles and responsibilities of
organisations and key issue, threat or challenges will be faced in future development of tourism
industry.
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P1 Overview of nature and trends of tourism on global scale
Tourism comprises of all journey or activities that are taken by individuals to travel form
one destination to another in order to have fun and enjoyment, business purpose or many more.
So nature of tourism is directly connect or associated with travelling as it is human phenomenon
to move across different parts of world in order to survive and explores several alternatives that
could helps in satisfying needs. So, in early times, Nomads were first to started travelling in
search of food and prey them industrial revolution has resulted in several visit to different
destination (Kasemsap, 2017). Therefore, it provides products and services such as
transportation, accommodation and food and beverage facilities to individuals. These products
are more perishable in nature as they cannot be transported or export to customers, it contribute
in economic growth by generating employment opportunities for several individuals. Tourism is
sustainable industry in nature as there is no end of tourism activities i.e, people have and will
move from one place to another for different purpose. It can also be stated that tourism helps in
educating people about each other culture and traditions thus helps in building better
interconnection between countries. Statics and fact related to trends such as it have been
identified that international tourist has been grew by 6% across worldwide in context with first
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six month of 2018 and 2017. There are several trends and development on tourism on global
scale that can be illustrated as follows:
Bliesure Travel: It is one of the most growing trend in tourism in which people are travelling to
different destination for work or business that provides them more leisure, fun and enjoyment.
Such as several business meeting, conferences and other business work are held in place away
from office that employees can have leisure time to have fun (Costa, Rodrigues and Gomes,
2019).
Automation: With advancement and growth in technology, customers like to have online
booking rather than making a phone call or waiting in queue for get a room to stay. Digitalisation
and several apps like Travelgo, trip advisor have provided them ease and comfort to search
several alternative options or accommodation facilities and select best destination for enjoying
holidays.
Personalised services: Most of the customers in recent trends want more personalised services
that have forced company to effectively understand their relative taste and preferences in order to
meet their expectancy. So, now a days organisations such as Mariott through social media or
official websites, content marketing have tried to delivered more personalised experienced so
that they are motivated to be part of organisation (Lopez-Sanchez and Pulido-Fernández, 2017).
Several facilities, food and beverages has been provided as per taste and preferences of specific
individuals that helps in building loyal customers within firm.
Sustainable tourism: As per point of view of 72% of tourist companies needs to take steps to
preserve natural resources and environment so that future generation can also enjoy. So, tour and
travel organisation like Marriott are taking steps towards sustainable management by educating
foreign visitors, employees about the way they need to respect culture, tradition and resources of
countries. Therefore, company by adopting trends of sustainable tourism is able to gain
competitive advantages in travel and tourism industry.
P2 Characteristics of key tourist generating and receiving areas of world
There are several characteristics of key tourist generating and receiving areas of world
like climatic condition, geographical location, environment and social- culture of particular
destination. Tourism is fast growing industry for many countries that has helped in development
of infrastructure, facilities for local and foreign visitors so that they can have fun (Tussyadiah,
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