Contemporary Hotel and Tourism Issue

Running head: CONTEMPORARY HOTEL AND TOURISM ISSUE
Contemporary Hotel and Tourism Issue
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1CONTEMPORARY HOTEL AND TOURISM ISSUE
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Increased environmental awareness................................................................................................2
Technological advancement............................................................................................................3
Lack of Security...............................................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
Reference List..................................................................................................................................6

2CONTEMPORARY HOTEL AND TOURISM ISSUE
Introduction
The tourism industry is slow to embrace the advantages of the knowledge of the economy
and particularly adopting the knowledge management practices along with boosting
competitiveness by using service development and knowledge for innovation. The world is
transforming which creates an effect on the tourism sector. As stated by Nagy and Carr (2018),
the tourism industry is progressing and advancing with more numbers of customers in each
passing days. At the same time, the tourism industry is facing several issues globally. In this
paper, three such major contemporary issues of tourism are discussed with real examples.
Increased environmental awareness
Numbers of visitors are increasing in tourism destinations and it creates a negative impact
on the tourism destination when the numbers of visitors in a place is greater than the
environmental ability (Kiessling et al. 2017). Increasing number of tourists creates a potential
threat to the natural areas as it poses enormous pressure to the area which impacts on the soil
erosion, discharge into the sea and increase pollution along with natural habitat. Increasing
tourists’ numbers leads to the natural habitat loss creates pressure on endangered species and it
also creates vulnerability to forest fires. Tourism industry overuses the water resources, mainly
fresh water through hotel, bars and restaurant, golf courses and swimming pool. Therefore, the
tourism industry creates degradation and shortage of water supplies which leads to a greater
volume of wastewater. As stated by Kim and Filimonau (2017), the tourism industry creates
pressure on local resources like food, energy and raw materials which face the issue of short
supply. The tourism industry has been creating direct influence on natural resources, both
renewable and non-renewable for providing tourist facilities. In addition, according to Kiessling