Global Tourism: Nature, Trends, and Key Destinations

Global Tourism
Destinations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1. Stats to present overview of nature and trends of tourism...............................................1
P2. Characteristics of key tourist generating and receiving areas of the world.....................3
M1 Way in which scale and nature of tourism has influenced emerging economies............5
D1 Impact of both key and emerging markets, and significant factors affecting global tourism
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TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
P3. Determining reasons for growth of global tourism generating and receiving areas of world
................................................................................................................................................5
P4. Differences between a range of emerging global tourism destinations...........................6
M2 Significance of different factors affecting tourism statistical trends...............................8
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
P5. Role and responsibilities of key international organisations in the development of global
tourism....................................................................................................................................8
M3 Evaluation of key organisations in growth of global tourism..........................................9
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P6. Threats, issues and challenges to the future development of global tourism...................9
M4 Analysis of implications of significant threats, issues and challenges to global tourism10
D2 Recommendation for managing future development opposed to threats, issues and
challenges.............................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Global tourism can be defined as a term where people (travellers) do visit various unique
destinations across both international and national boundaries. In present time, it has been found
that business firms whether dealing in travel and tourism or any other sector has got affected by
globalisation. The main reason that came in front i.e. profit maximisation with ample number of
opportunities to grow business (Abubakar and Ilkan, 2016). Along with this, it is being analysed
that this sector has helped firms in supporting both international and national economy through
generating number of jobs. Report is going to be enclosed with both trends and nature of tourism.
This assignment will also put light on different characteristics of key tourists, reasons for growth
of global tourism generating and responsibilities along with the roles of international
organisations within tourism industry, will also be covered. Away with this, at last different
range of issues, threats along with the challenges are also going to be discussed for developing
tourism at global level.
TASK 1
P1. Stats to present overview of nature and trends of tourism
In present time, nature of tourism can be considered as travelling, where an individual or
a group travels from one place to another. But, it is being found that this sector has also carries
dynamic nature, where trends gets changes on a regular basis due to updates among technology,
interest and needs of clients and so on.
Global tourism statistics, trends and flow :
If it is talked about international tourist arrivals then in the year of 2018, it got raised by
6% if compared with 2017. On the other hand, according to UNWTO, that has estimated that
international tourist arrivals got enhanced, which can be seen in the numbers where, Middle East
(+10%), Africa (+7%), Asia and the Pacific and Europe (both at +6%) led growth in 2018.
Arrivals to the Americas were below the world average, which is +3% (Avraham, 2015).
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