Global Tourism Destinations

Global Tourism
Destinations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
Interpretation of statistics to represent the nature and trends of tourism in global context ...1
How Scale and nature of tourism on a global level influenced by the emerging economies.3
Investigate about the features of key tourist receiving and generating areas in worldwide
context....................................................................................................................................4
Critically evaluate the impact of both key and emerging markets, and significant factors
affecting global tourism..........................................................................................................5
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................6
Reasons for global tourism growth.........................................................................................6
Comparison between global tourism destinations..................................................................7
Comparison between different international destinations .....................................................8
Evaluation and comparison of factors that drives tourism trends .........................................9
LO 3...............................................................................................................................................10
Investigation of roles played by International organisations ...............................................10
Evaluation of importance of key organisations in development and growth of tourism .....11
LO 4...............................................................................................................................................11
Importance of issues, challenges and threats for future global tourism development .........11
Analysation of implications of challenges, issues and threats ............................................12
Recommendations................................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................13
Books and Journals...............................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Tourism is considered as one of these fastest developing industries in terms of
employment, GDP and revenues. Global tourism is defined as travelling of an individual at
different destinations and places outside the national borders. In accordance with the statement
given by world tourism firms, number of people preferring international tourism for vacations,
business trips, exploring new places etc. are increasing on a fast pace. This can help a country in
stabilising their economy via tourism activities (Adeleke and Ogunsusi, 2019). This assignment
report is going to cover about different statistics so that an overview for trends and nature of
tourism can be given. Also, characteristics of tourist receiving and generating areas along with
specific reason of tourism growth are mentioned. Other than this, comparing and contrasting
between emerging global destinations is carried out in brief context. Also, responsibilities and
roles of international companies in developing global tourism is discussed. In the last section,
significance associated with issues, challenges and threats in future development of tourism are
carried out.
LO 1
Interpretation of statistics to represent the nature and trends of tourism in global context
Nature of tourism is variable and changes at a fast pace due to the changing preference
and taste of people on regular basis. As interest of people for a destination modifies, this impacts
the popularity of that place in a considerable manner. In past time, people use to travel so that
they can they can satisfy their basic needs like food, shelter, clothing etc. But at present, most of
the people travel to spend quality time with their family and friends. Hence, in comparison to
past, nature of tourism has varied in a significant manner (Amore, 2019).
Statistics for tourism destination
National tourism
In case of UK, approximately 3.5 million people in 2019 have preferred to travel overseas
so that they can visit different destinations. In comparison with the records of previous year,
global tourism has encountered a hike of 9%. Also, people which visits UK in recent time have
spend around £2.3 billion during their visits. This shows that people are highly interesting in
travelling and tourism and this ratio increases every year.
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For international tourism
In case of tourism at international level, total number of tourist arriving for the year of
2017 is mentioned here. For Europe, number of tourists are around 671 millions, USA- 207
millions, Africa- 65 millions, middle-East – 58 millions. After 2017, these figures are constantly
increasing by passing time due to which increase in development of tourism sector is enhanced
exponentially. In the year of 2018, total revenue generated by this sector is approx, 1.45 trillions
USD (Becken and Shuker, 2019).
This graph states shows the number of tourists in millions which have travelled to global
destinations from the year of 1950 to 2020. as per this graph, number of people have increased
only due to which it can be said that people are highly interested in exploring new places in
global context (Benckendorff, Xiang and Sheldon, 2019).
Trends in travel and tourism industry
Tourism and travel sector is changing on regular basis due to the varying expectations of
customers. These changes depends upon the latest trends which are emerging in market. Below
are mentioned some latest trends of tourism industry:
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