Tourism Development and its Impact

This assignment delves into the travel and tourism industry, examining its growth, key factors like social conditions, technology, and infrastructure. It discusses various tourism services, events, and conferences while highlighting the role of tour operators in planning and managing tourist experiences. The text also emphasizes the importance of sustainable development practices to protect natural environments.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
LO1: Understanding structure and history of travel and tourism sector.........................................3
1.1 Explaining prime historical developments within the tourism and travel sector.......................3
1.2 Explaining structure of tourism and travel sector......................................................................1
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................3
References........................................................................................................................................4
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Introduction
The study portrays the origin and background of the evolving travel as well as tourism industry
in the past years. Growth and development in the travel and tourism sector had been explained in
detail within the study. The study is divided into two sections, out of which one would be
represented as poster and the other would be reflected as a leaflet.
LO1: Understanding structure and history of travel and tourism sector
1.1 Explaining prime historical developments within the tourism and travel sector
Travelling for the purposes of labour has eventually evolved from a typical experience that had
been reserved for few people into anything by many. Historically, it had been believed that
ability of travelling had been reserved for upper classes and royalty. From the traditional Roman
times till the 17th century, people especially young men belonging to higher standards had been
found to be encouraged for travelling throughout the Europe over a ‘grand tour’. In the words of
Woo et al. (2015), through the Middle period, many communities and societies have encouraged
practice of the religious pilgrimage which was reflected from the literary works of ample
authors. Since the post war period, people began to make tours for their refreshment and loss of
extreme frustration.
The term ‘hospitality’ seems to predate the term ‘tourism’, and was first appeared in 14th
century. Various factors have facilitated the growth of tourism as time passed. As per the views
of Saha and Yap (2014), the factors would include- money, technology, freedom to move, social
conditions, infrastructure and probable future developments such as sustainability. It had been
evidently reviewed in these past years that the travel and tourism industry had developed at its
best and has contributed a lump sum share of money into the world’s Gross Domestic Product
(GDP) or income as real output. According to the opinions of Chou (2013), developments in this
industry had contributed entire growth in the world economy and development of far off places
which were almost unknown to the people. With the increase in technology, people had been
able to make decisions for tourism and travelling to distant places for their relaxation and
coolness.
Choices of people have changed in this era than the traditional ones. This is because, in ancient
times, many factors acted as hindrances to the travelling of people like social and cultural
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factors. People seemed to be more superstitious and society bound for which even after having
the willingness to go they could not take an urge to visit the places they wished to. Today, people
are their owners and they can go off new places and explore things by their choices. By the
notions of Cvelbar et al. (2016), the perspectives of travelling have literally changed over time.
Figure 1: Timeline Chart
(Source: Xiang et al. 2015)
Money is one of the crucial factors that had determined people’s choices to encourage tourism.
Previously, people used to have the mentality of saving more and today, people consume more
than what they save. Now days, it had been observed people had been more generous and
spendthrift to make travel around the world with their families, friends and relatives. According
to the observations of Xiang et al. (2015), through the timeline chart, it could be shown that how
the graph for travel and tourism has changed and had fluctuations in it. Due to the industrial
revolution, a great deal of tourism and travelling industry had been cracked. People had become
freer for visiting places with the greater availability of transport mediums such as trains,
airplanes, ships and so on.
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1.1: Poster
Travelling for the purposes of labour has
eventually evolved from a typical experience
that had been reserved for few people into
anything by many. Historically, it had been
believed that ability of travelling had been
reserved for upper classes and royalty. From the
traditional Roman times till the 17th century,
people especially young men belonging to
higher standards had been found to be
encouraged for travelling throughout the Europe
over a ‘grand tour’. In the words of Woo et al.
(2015),
through the Middle period, many communities
and societies have encouraged practice of the
religious pilgrimage which was reflected from
the literary works of ample authors. Since the
post war period, people began to make tours for
their refreshment and loss of extreme frustration.
The term ‘hospitality’ seems to predate the term
‘tourism’, and was first appeared in 14th century.
Various factors have facilitated the growth of
tourism as time passed. As per the views of Saha and
Yap (2014), the factors would include- money,
technology, freedom to move, social conditions,
infrastructure and probable future developments
such as sustainability. It had been evidently
reviewed in these past years that the travel and
tourism industry had developed at its best and has
contributed a lump sum share of money into the
world’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or income
as real output. According to the opinions of Chou
(2013), developments in this industry had
contributed entire growth in the world economy and
development of far off places which were almost
unknown to the people. With the increase in
technology, people had been able to make decisions
for tourism and travelling to distant places for their
relaxation and coolness.
Choices of people have changed in this era than the traditional ones. This is
because, in ancient times, many factors acted as hindrances to the travelling of
people like social and cultural factors. People seemed to be more superstitious
and society bound for which even after having the willingness to go they
could not take an urge to visit the places they wished to. Today, people are
their owners and they can go off new places and explore things by their
choices. By the notions of Cvelbar et al. (2016), the perspectives of travelling
have literally changed over time.
Money is one of the crucial factors that had
determined people’s choices to encourage tourism.
Previously, people used to have the mentality of
saving more and today, people consume more than
what they save. Now days, it had been observed
people had been more generous and spendthrift to
make travel around the world with their families,
friends and relatives. According to the observations
of Xiang et al. (2015), through the timeline chart, it
could be shown that how the graph for travel and
tourism has changed and had fluctuations in it. Due
to the industrial revolution, a great deal of tourism
and travelling industry had been cracked. People
had become freer for visiting places with the greater
availability of transport mediums such as trains,
airplanes, ships and so on.

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1.2 Explaining structure of tourism and travel sector
The operation of travel and tourism sector depends upon different level of operation which
determines the successful growth of the organisation in the society. As mentioned by Wu et
al. (2016), the Operation of travel and tourism sector depends upon the attraction of the
society, which deals with the natural extraction like lake, pool, beaches at 17 which food
attract more customers in total for development of the organisational travel and tourism
sector in the society.
The transport sector of the society dealing with that of the tourism sector has at least 25% of
the tourism development outlay in their hand. it is essential to understand that that tourist
visiting a tourist spot need transportation for reaching to the attraction mentioned above and
the transportation sector plays an important role in the development of the tourism sector in
the society. The operation of the tour operators plays an important role in managing the
planning for the customers and the tourist to understand the time and the places to visit upon
for enjoying the most of the natural beauty and mental satisfaction. The packages and the
financial existence plans by the tour operator are important because the understanding of the
market and the areas that needs to be explored and their time of being explored. As
mentioned by Roger-Monzó et al. (2015), The objective of the tourism development sector to
develop the opportunities and the places that requires proper development plan and
prospective. the achievement of the success can be only possible with better sharing of
information with the tourist and the travelling agents. the guide for the development of
tourism sector are important because gradual rise in the population and customers visiting the
tourist spot tends to destroy the natural existence of the society and the tourism spot, does the
tourism development organisation needs to step in to protect the tourism spot and develop
tourism society and simultaneously.
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The operation of travel and tourism sector depends upon different level of operation which determines the successful growth of the
organisation in the society. As mentioned by Wu et al. (2016), the Operation of travel and tourism sector depends upon the attraction
of the society, which deals with the natural extraction like lake, pool, beaches at 17 which food attract more customers in total for
development of the organisational travel and tourism sector in the society.
The transport sector of the society dealing with that of the tourism sector has at least 25% of the tourism development outlay in their
hand. it is essential to understand that that tourist visiting a tourist spot need transportation for reaching to the attraction mentioned
above and the transportation sector plays an important role in the development of the tourism sector in the society. The operation of
the tour operators plays an important role in managing the planning for the customers and the tourist to understand the time and the
places to visit upon for enjoying the most of the natural beauty and mental satisfaction. The packages and the financial existence
plans by the tour operator are important because the understanding of the market and the areas that needs to be explored and their
time of being explored.
As mentioned by Roger-Monzó et al. (2015), The objective of the tourism development sector to develop the opportunities and the
places that requires proper development plan and prospective. the achievement of the success can be only possible with better
sharing of information with the tourist and the travelling agents. the guide for the development of tourism sector are important
because gradual rise in the population and customers visiting the tourist spot tends to destroy the natural existence of the society and
the tourism spot, does the tourism development organisation needs to step in to protect the tourism spot and develop tourism society
and simultaneously.
1.2: Leaflet

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Conclusion
By the above study, it could be easily concluded that travel and tourism industry had been an
emerging one with much greater and valuable prospects. It is evident that people had
encouraged tourism for leisure, royalty, relaxation and refreshment. Various predominant
factors that had affected tourism industry had been social and cultural conditions, choices of
people, money, and technology and infrastructure development. The second part had
discussed about the various travel and tourism services, events and conferences that take
place and other relevant sectors engaged in this industry.
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References
Chou, M.C., (2013). Does tourism development promote economic growth in transition
countries? A panel data analysis. Economic Modelling, 33, pp.226-232.
Cvelbar, L.K., Grün, B. and Dolnicar, S., (2016). Which hotel guest segments reuse towels?
Selling sustainable tourism services through target marketing. Journal of Sustainable
Tourism, pp.1-14.
Roger-Monzó, V., Martí-Sánchez, M. and Guijarro-García, M., (2015). Using online
consumer loyalty to gain competitive advantage in travel agencies. Journal of Business
Research, 68(7), pp.1638-1640.
Saha, S. and Yap, G., (2014). The moderation effects of political instability and terrorism on
tourism development: a cross-country panel analysis. Journal of Travel Research, 53(4),
pp.509-521.
Woo, E., Kim, H. and Uysal, M., (2015). Life satisfaction and support for tourism
development. Annals of Tourism Research, 50, pp.84-97.
Wu, C.H., Ho, G.T., Lam, C.H., Ip, W.H., Choy, K.L. and Tse, Y.K., (2016). An online
niche-market tour identification system for the travel and tourism industry. Internet Research,
26(1), pp.167-185.
Xiang, Z., Magnini, V.P. and Fesenmaier, D.R., (2015). Information technology and
consumer behavior in travel and tourism: Insights from travel planning using the internet.
Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 22, pp.244-249.
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