Influence of Government and Policies on Tourism Sector

TASK 2.1 & 2.2

TABLE OF CONTENT
2.1 Functions of Government, Government
sponsored bodies and International agencies
 Functions of government
 Functions of governmental sponsored bodies
 Functions of international agencies
2.2 Influence of local and national policies on
tourism sector
 Impacts of economic policies
 Influence of local and national economic polices
 Conclusion
 References

2.1 Functions of Government,
Government sponsored bodies and
International agencies
Functions of government:
• Provide assistance by framing policies for boosting
tourism in country
• Render services and facilities to tourists
• Carry promotional activities to attract tourists
• To maintain relations with other countries
• To develop the sites and tourist destinations of the
country
• To conduct events and other programs so as to
attract tourists
• To cut the costs and taxes so as to boost tourism

Role of department for digital,
culture, media and sport
• The main responsibility of this
department in the UK is to
develop tourism leisure and
enhance culture and sports.
• The responsibility also covers
the development of creative
industries
• It render infrastructure for
games and ensure coordination
with other departments
• To develop and maintain the
historic heritage of country

Functions of Governmental
sponsored bodies
The public bodies that are dependent on the
government to achieve funds are termed as
non- departmental bodies which comes under
the governmental sponsored bodies.
• To render security and safety services to the
tourist visiting in country
• Promoting the public interest in the tourism
• To add the economic value in regional
tourism
• To cater facilities of funds to all in tourism
sector

Visit Britain
The governmental sponsored body
that is responsible for promoting
Britain across the world. It is a
national organization.
• It focus on minimizing the crowd
at south during summers
• It aims to protect the national
resources and heritage for tourism
• It renders comfortable facilities
and infrastructural help
• It plans tourism budget and
prepare programs accordingly

Functions of UNWTO
UNWTO is World Tourism
Organization in the United Nations
that is solely responsible for the
sustainable tourism and universally
accessibly tourism.
• It promotes environmental
sustainability, development and
growth of tourism
• It encourages the Global Code of
Ethics for Tourism
• It aims to reduce poverty
• It works for sustainable
development of tourism

Functions of UNESCO
It stands for United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization that has following
functions:
• It promote security and peace by
effective collaboration
• Its functions covers promotion of
the education, culture, human
science, natural science and
communication.
• It provides accessibility to tourists
so as to make their experience
better

Functions of IATA
It stands for International Air
Transport Association with
following functions:
• It promotes economic, safe and
reliable air travel across the
world.
• It enhances efficiency by simple
processes and rendering
convenience
• It maximizes revenue and also
support the stakeholders
• It aims to reduce the negative

Functions of International
agencies
• To simplify the rules so that easy entry to
other countries becomes possible
• It render safety across the world
• To ensure uniform patterns in all countries
for tourists
• To simplify the procedures and promote
growth of tourism

2.2 Influence of local and
national policies on tourism
sector
Impacts of economic policy:
 It helps in availability of the easy and
cheap finance so as to develop hotels and
sites for tourists
 Due to tax structure the hotel occupancy
and the tourists spending level is affected
 The economic policies also affect the
employment levels
 These policies may be altered and framed
at national or local levels

Influence of local economic
policies
• Changes in the local economic polices injects
revenue that adds to the economy of the
country. Like the UK has started a new Visa
policy that has extended the validity from 6
month to 2 years.
• This economic policy for the Chinese tourists
has led to several economic benefits.
• The number of employee footfall in the UK
from China has hiked.
• The revenue has been hiked by 112 percent
due to this policy.

Influence of national
economic policies
• The national policies creates influence via the
taxation policies
• It also works for the development of tourism
and the community of the destinations
• For example: GREAT China welcome which
has worked for the Britain destinations that
are chosen by the Chinese tourists. This has
helped many Chinese visitors in easily
identifying the tour operators,
accommodations, agents and hotels in the
Britain.

Conclusion
We can conclude that there is direct as well as
indirect impact of the government,
governmental sponsored bodies and the
international agencies on the economic policies
of the country. They are into action to perform
several functions that boosts the tourism and
economic condition of a country. The local and
national economic policies also creates influence
on the tourism sector as these are the guidelines
which this sector follows so as to encourage the
tourism sustainability.

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