Development and Elements of Travel and Tourism Industry

International Travel and
Tourism management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ............................................................................................................................3
PART 1.......................................................................................................................................3
P1 Discuss the milestones in the development of the travel and tourism industry and how
they have shaped the travel and tourism industry..................................................................3
P2 identify the different elements of the travel and tourism industry and explore how they
interrelate to create the tourist experience.............................................................................4
PART 2.......................................................................................................................................5
P3 Determine the different factors that affect tourism behaviour.........................................5
P4 Explain models of motivation and how they influence the consumer decision...............6
PART 3.......................................................................................................................................7
P5 Identify recent and emerging patterns and trends in the international travel and tourism
industry..................................................................................................................................7
PART 4.......................................................................................................................................8
P6 Examine the factors affecting the popularity of a range of global destinations...............8
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Tourism means movement of a person or it means a person who is far away from their
place of residence. Travel and tourism means when a person spend some of their income and
occur some expenditure. Although it is not necessary all the time but most of the time travel
include the expense (McKercher, 2015). The UNWTO, recommend the three basic tourism
for the country; domestic tourism; where all the activities related to tourism are done in the
resident country. Outbound tourism; resident go outside the country and the last one is
inbound tourism; where a non-resident visitor visit the country. This industry make up with
nine component; transport, accommodation, transport, attractions, travel agent, tour
operators, ancillary services, trade associations and event management. In this assignment, a
report is prepared for UNWTO, regarding development and different elements which gives
the experience of tourism and travel industry, evaluating the factor which driving for tourist
behaviour, current pattern and trends and different level of popularity related factors which
affect the different global destination.
MAIN BODY
PART 1
P1 Discuss the milestones in the development of the travel and tourism industry and how they
have shaped the travel and tourism industry
Travel and tourism industry has faced the various milestone to develop the industry in
the UK. Generally there are three milestone or can say the history of the development of the
travel and tourism industry are:
Before 1945: in the ancient time or before 16th century people are living and based on
the agriculture life which was stationery (Milova, Piskovets and Chernyshenko, 2017) . So
they move seldom from one town or rural community. In the beginning of the 18th century, in
the period of industrial revolution, people are starting moving from one rural area to another
in the work of urban and factory development. But only the richer elite class people are
enjoying the travel sector.
1945-1979: In 1945, it can be concluded that this year was the main year of the
development of the travel and tourism industry. In the mid of 1950, only in UK, the tour
operators are started their journey and include more business related activities in their work to

influence the customers more. And after 1950, the package service are started to expand the
tour and travel industry.
1980 to current: by the 1980, most of the airlines started the services like,
arrangement of the holidays, medical services, hiring car and many more services which are
necessary for the travel. In 1990, in UK most of the big companies started their business
(Schroeder and Pennington-Gray, 2015). And after 2000, tourism and travel industry become
the main source of earning in the UK, air travel improve their business more rapidly and
railways started new offers and services for the ones who are inbound customers or outbound
customers. This industry are now help the global economic development in the twenty first
century. It improve the education related to history and also enhance and support the other
business of the industry.
The structure and shape of the travel and tourism industry are defined in five sectors
mainly which is given by Leiper’s; Departing travel, traveller generating region, transit route
region, tourist destination region and in last returning travels. These five are the mains shape
of the travel and tourism industry as they differentiate the travel industry according to their
nature. The first element is related to the tourist, next three related to geographical and
organizational sector and the last one related to the self-explanatory.
P2 identify the different elements of the travel and tourism industry and explore how they
interrelate to create the tourist experience
There are various elements which are included in the travel and tourism industry as
insurance, recreational, banking services, accommodations, your guides, packaging agent,
ticket agent and many more services which attract the tourist and increase their experience
which increase the profitability of the tourist and travel industry (Du, Lew and Ng, 2016).
The main principle of the attraction is the location which help to invite more footfall. It may
be the museum, heritage building, a beautiful location with lakes and mountains, or even an
educational centre and many more attractive location. In the UK market, there are various
more attraction places like market area, monuments and travellers shops.
When it comes to element of the travel and tourism industry, the first element is
tourist; as they are the first and most important element of the industry without tourist this
industry can’t gain the success and benefits to the global level. Second element is
geographical location; location is the second most important element. As the location must be
attractive, assessable and easy to locate by the customers. This sector include three main