(P25) Contemporary Issues in T&T

Travel and Tourism Management

Contemporary Issues in T&T

2.1 Current trends in influencing change in the travel and
tourism sector
• Tourism is considered as the worldwide industry which has been
fluctuating in respect to crime, terrorism, natural disaster and economic
forces etc.
• However, all such changes influences the travel and tourism business.
Hence, it is essential for Thomas Cook to assess all such changes in the
current trends and thus avoid in order to plan effective tourism growth.
• Thus, it helps in attracting tourists to visit the country and enhance tourism
so that satisfaction can be attained. Terrorism attacks influences travel and
tourism sector and thus decreases the number of tourists within the
country.

visitors arriving to different countries
Following is the table ofnumber of visitors arriving to different countries-
Country Number of
tourists
Norway 80000
Germany 48000
Spain
54000
United states 61000

2.2 Analysing niche tourism market and provide detailed
description
• The current niche tourism market is sports tourism in which business aims
to expand its market and influence large number of tourists to visit the
country.
• However, it is significant for tourists to gain detailed information
regarding the particular tourism market and enhance its popularity so that
large number of tourists could be attracted towards the tourist market.

Continued
• UK aims to develop itself in such market and thus it helps Thomas Cook to
expand its business operations so that large number of sports tourists could
be attracted.
• Such type of tourism is considered as the most revolutionary and evolving
trend which is being seen in today's travel and tourism industry.
• It attracts wide number of travellers who are interested in sports and thus
organize and host several sports events and programs.
• It also raises the number of travellers visiting the country for sports
activities and attain huge growth and economy.

References
Rogerson, J. M. and Rogerson, C. M., 2014. Urban tourism destinations in
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Tan, S. K. and et.al., 2016. Understanding tourist perspectives in creative
tourism. Current Issues in Tourism. 19(10). pp.981-987.
Williams, A., 2016. Contemporary Issues Shaping China’s Civil Aviation
Policy: Balancing International with Domestic Priorities. Routledge.

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