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Historical Development in Travel and Tourism Sector : Assignment

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Historical Development in Travel and Tourism Sector : Assignment

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................4TASK 1.................................................................................................................................................4a) Key historical developments in the travel and tourism sector in the United Kingdom................4b) Structure of the travel and tourism sector in general and the United Kingdom in particular......5TASK 2.................................................................................................................................................62.1 Analysis of functions of national government, government sponsored bodies in the UK and international agencies in promoting travel and tourism in UK.........................................................62.2 Local and national economic policy influence the success of the travel and tourism sector in the UK...............................................................................................................................................72.3 Implications of political changes on the travel and tourism sector in different countries..........7TASK 3.................................................................................................................................................83.1 Factors affecting tourism demand in London.............................................................................83.2 Changes in supply change meet the effects of demand for tourism related products and services in London............................................................................................................................9TASK 4.................................................................................................................................................94.1 Evaluation of positive and negative economic, environmental and social impacts of tourism on London and the surrounding areas...............................................................................................94.2 Strategies that can be used to minimize the negative tourism impact while maximising the positive tourism impacts on London and the surrounding areas....................................................10CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................................11REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................122
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LIST OF FIGURESFigure 1Number of visitors to Africa from 1990 to 2014....................................................................83
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INTRODUCTION The growth of the travel and tourism industry in the few passing years has been stunning. Itis expected that number of international passenger in the 2017 year will be raised to 1.5 billion with292 million additional passengers. In the present era, the following sector now supports 1 in 11 jobsopportunities across the globe (Getting to know the Travel and Tourism industry, 2016). The rise inthe amount of travellers creates big opportunities for travel and tourism sector along with this itssupportive business sectors such as transportation, hospitality, retail businesses etc. As a result ofthis wave, it promotes the new ventures to take advantages of the present growth opportunity andmake large amount of money from this (Bhavna, 2009). The present study is based on the travel andtourism and to understand this, South of England Regional Development Agency is taking intoconsideration. It is one of the nine regional development agencies set by the UK government in1999. It works for development of a sustainable economy in South West England. Objectives thatwill achieve by the current research are the history and structure of the travel and tourism sector andinfluence of local and national government and international agencies on the travel and tourism sector. Someother objectives which will be covered in the investigation are effects of supply and demand on travel andtourism industry and its impact on the cited business sector. TASK 1a) Key historical developments in the travel and tourism sector in the United KingdomWhen a person starts thinking about travel, he imagines spending his leisure time at a placewhich is far from the bustle and hustle from a normal life in his mind. Travel and tourism is notonly related to holiday but also emerged as one of the major business sector of UK and providevarious jobs (Evans, Stonehouse and Campbell, 2012). Before understanding the important aspectsof the cited industry, it is required to know more about the key historical developments in travel andtourism of UK. Ancient time: According to, Dickinson and Lumsdon, 2010 “in this era, the Romaniansdeveloped roads for wars as well as business” (Dickinson and Lumsdon, 2010). This developmentbrought some favourable conditions for South of England and other geographical areas of UK. In19th century, South of England started to grow because of the Romanian culture. During this phase,the major historical development in UK which promoted people to travel were Basilica North of theAlps, large fort of the city, temples, an amphitheatre and bath houses. Middle ages or dark ages: This phase was hard and less attractive for tourism in the Southof England. In this, people faced pain and gave more and more efforts to travel to find the newplace of visit. The result of was that, the travellers found new places visit. In the same era, the word4
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