Historical Development and Structure of Travel and Tourism- Report
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Historical Development and Structure of Travel and Tourism- Report
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3TASK 1 ................................................................................................................................................31.1 Explain key historical developments in the travel and tourism sector......................................31.2 Explain the structure of the travel and tourism industry............................................................4TASK 2.................................................................................................................................................52.1 Analyse the function of government, government sponsored bodies and international agencies intravel and tourism............................................................................................................................52.2 Explanation of the local and national economic policy influences the success of the travel and tourism sector...................................................................................................................................52.3 Discuss the implications of political change on the travel and tourism in different countries..6TASK 3.................................................................................................................................................73.1 Explain the main factors affectingtourism demand...............................................................................................................................73.2 Explanation of the supply has changed tomeet the effects of demand.............................................................................................................7TASK 4.................................................................................................................................................84.1 Evaluate the main economic, environmental and social impactsof tourism........................................................................................................................................84.2 Explain strategies that can be used to minimize the negativeimpactswhilst maximizing the positive impacts..........................................................................................8CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................102
INTRODUCTION Travel and tourism sector comprises of different customers as well as visitors who travel acrossthe places from their usual environment for the purpose of leisure, business or vacations. It is thelargest service industry in terms of gross revenue and foreign exchange earnings. It is a major socialphenomenon which is done for the social, religious, recreational, business trips etc. The main motivesof travel and tourism are to identify the needs of customers, offer various tour packages as per theirsocial class etc. (Travel and Tourism, 2014). so that business can attract more number of consumers fortravelling. For conducting the present research, London is chosen as an effective destination for thetravel and tourism. The report focuses on the historical development and structure of travel and tourismsector along with determining about various government authorities and policies. The report alsocomprises of the tourism demand as well as tourism's products and services. Furthermore, impacts oftourism on the economic, social and environment factors will also be discussed. TASK 1 1.1 Explain key historical developments in the travel and tourism sectorKey historical developments in the travel and tourism sector are explained below. Tourismindustry of UK provides services like transportation, food and beverages, accommodation,entertainment and different other services which are benefited to the tourists. Tourism is refer as whentourist go to different countries with a motive to see different places and their history for theirrelaxation (Navickas and Malakauskaite, 2015). Travel means travelling from one place to anotherwithin the country or outside the country. This sector affects the economy of both the countries i.e.home country and host country. Now a days, travel and tourism is also a major source of income forthe countries to developed their economy. Travel and tourism industry was invented in early 18thcentury. In ancient times, people are interested in localized experiences, where they goes to small andnearby area as due to lack of transportation and communication facilities. Now days, people havecuriosity to see unknown places and their history so for this they went to the foreign countries.There is development in transport and in information facilities like in earlier times the cost ofthe transportation is much more. Due to this, middle and low class people can't afford to go to thetravel destination. In term of technology, there was no computer and new technologies was present bywhich people get the information related to the travel and tourism (Mowforth and Munt, 2015). Inrecent times, travel and tourism industry in the UK attracts people by enhancing the level of servicesthrough using new technologies. With the help of this, cost of transportation can also be minimizedwhich can be more affordable for the travellers. This in turn helps business to enhance its number ofcustomers. Tourism industry provides facilities like accommodation, rest houses, online booking etc. In3
earlier times, girls and ladies are not allowed to travel alone but due to development in travel andtourism, increase in transportation and communication facilities, females are free to travel. Throughthis, there is an ongoing development in travel and tourism from earlier times. 1.2 Explain the structure of the travel and tourism industryTravel and Tourism is the fastest growing industry in the UK. There are various structures thatconstitute this sector which are transport, accommodation, local travel, food and shipping etc.Structureof travel and tourism industry is explained as follows. Transportation: Travel and tourism industry in the UK provide different varieties oftransportation options to the people who want to travel for different places (Xiang and et.al.,2015). According to their preferences, conveniences, status and lifestyles, UK based industryprovides various options like airlines, buses, rails, ships so that people can easily travel fromone place to another. If a person wants to reach another state in less time, then such industrywill provide airline facilities according to his needs.Accommodation: Such industry in the UK provides services to their customers according totheir needs. There is a requirement of accommodation by the people if they are travelling tounknown places. This industry includes hotels, rest rooms, youth hostels, campus facilities etc.so that it can attract large number of customers. According to their packages, UK's travel andtourism industry selects hotels or rest rooms (Mariani and et.al., 2014). If industry'saccommodation facility is not attractive, then this will be a negative point for them.Accommodation services play an important role for travel and tourism industry in the UK.Food Facilities: Travel and tourism industry in the UK also provides food facilitates accordingto customer's needs. In this, travel and tourism industry also provides services according totheir tastes and preferences. Guiding services: Main important service which travel industry of UK provides relevantinformation to their tourists (Local government & the visitor industry, 2015). They provideinformation of the place where a person is going like what are the sources to reach there,atmosphere of that place, local languages and the different attractions like monuments, castleetc.Tour operators: Tour operator helps in understanding customer’s requirements such asselection of right destination. Famous tour operator in the UK is Thomas Cook. Further, thereare different tour operators according to the type of tourism. Tour operator ties up their businesswith hotels and transport companies.4
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