The Contemporary Travel and Tourism Industry

The Contemporary Travel
and Tourism Industry

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1. Key milestones for development of travel and tourism industry...........................................1
P2. Different elements within travel and tourism industry..........................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
P3. Different factors affecting tourism behaviour.......................................................................3
P4. Motivational models as well as their influences on consumer decision making procedure.. 5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P5. Recent along with emerging patterns and trends within international travel and tourism
industry........................................................................................................................................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
P6. Factors affecting popularity of ranges of global destinations................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
In present context, travel and tourism sector in distinct countries is growing with rapid
speed (Backer and King, 2015). It involves set of activities that fulfils and serves demand of
travellers during their visits to distant locations. Travel and tourism is important for improving
economic conditions of a nation as well as to attain growth rapidly. Institutions within the
industry offers various tour related services such as lodging, transportation, food and beverage as
well as activities including entertainment, ethic festivals, recreation and so on. The whole project
is based on UNWTO which is specialised agency for sustaining and accessing tourism globally.
The project covers key milestones for development of travel and tourism sector and different
elements within such industry and their interrelation for creating tourist experience. Further, it
also determines factors that affect behaviour of tourism, motivational methods along with their
influence in decision making procedure of customers. In addition, it also identifies current as
well as emerging trends with patterns in international travel and tourism industry. At last, the
report examines factors that affect popularity of global destinations.
TASK 1
P1. Key milestones for development of travel and tourism industry.
Travel and tourism industry comprises wide services that are offered to travellers in order
to generate huge profit margins. With changes in time, growth and development within such
industry is increasing day to day so that better experiences are provided to key or new
consumers. Travel and tourism sector within United Kingdom and other nations is growing as
well as having wide potentials to generate employment addition to earn large quantity of foreign
exchanges besides giving fillip to economic as well as social development (Bærenholdt, Haldrup
and Urry, 2017). The emergence of such industry took place prior to 19th century and from then it
has achieved more growth as well as in process to become more developed. The key historical or
milestone developments in pertaining industry along with the ways they have shaped the
international travel as well as tourism sector are discussed below:
Prior to 19th century: Earlier, travel was only considered as sense of curiosity to visit
different places and adventure. In the era, the industry has experienced various contributions like
establishment of trade routes, common languages as well as currencies were developed, legal
systems were improved, commercial activities were organised and group tours were organised.
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