Society and Tourism: Investigating Sociological Principles, Theories, and Practices

Essay

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
According to the economic perspective, tourism create jobs and wealth and form the
socio-cultural point of view, it brings people together from different cultures, traditions,
backgrounds and promotes peace (Cranmer, tom Dieck and Fountoulaki, 2020). There are
various social advantage of tourism, exhibit positive impact of society. Which includes provision
of social services, preserving local heritage and culture, commercialisation of art and culture,
strengthening communities, preservation of heritage, revitalisation of art and customs and many
more. The main aim of this essay is to discuss the society and tourism relationship with each
other with the help of investigation of appropriate sociological principle, theories and practices.
Also the identification of how various sociocultural, economic and political contexts influence
practice and principle of sustainability. This essay demonstrate the understanding of
interdependence and interaction of processes, people and places involved in tourism.
Interaction of process in tourism includes customer to customer interaction depends upon
the perceived and extroversion similarity (Fong, Wong and Hong, 2018). There is an important
factor that is community awareness for the development of tourism. Sociology refers to the
social science which mainly focuses on the human social behaviour, society, social interaction,
aspects of culture and patterns of social relationships associated with day to day life. Tourism
and travelling is an essential part of contemporary society and it is an interested topic across the
social science. Some of the social factors that influence the people to travel includes expected
experience from travelling and tour, persons family, attitude, motivation and perception that is
made by the tour on an individual. Social science aids to describe how society works, causes of
unemployment and investigate each and every thing from the point of view of economic growth.
This information is crucial and can be used for various purpose.
MAIN BODY
Tourism contributes towards overall development and growth of the country by introducing
various economic benefits and value (Holloway and Humphreys, 2022). It also includes helping
essential country's brand image, value and identity. In late 17th century, the nobles are made by
the people which titled as grand tour, which includes various information regarding travelling
and places in it. That includes the information of a trip around Europe which gives knowledge to
the people about many places. In 19th century there was a creation of first and most travelling
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