The Contemporary Travel and Tourism Industry

The Contemporary Travel and
Tourism Industry

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Key milestones in development of travel and tourism industry and how they shaped
industry...................................................................................................................................3
P2 Different elements of travel and tourism industry and explore how they interrelate to create
tourist experience....................................................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P3 Determine different factors that affect tourism behaviour................................................6
P4 Models of motivation and how they influence the consumer decision making process...8
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P5 Recent and emerging patterns and trends in international travel and tourism industry....9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................10
P6 Examine factors affecting popularity of a range of global destinations..........................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Hospitality is defined as category of fields which lies within service sector that includes
food, drink service, lodging, theme parks, event planning, travelling, airline and so on (Amin and
et. al., 2013). The travel and tourism sector is part of hospitality industry that leads to high
earning of profits at marketplace. Here, travel is defined as movement of people from one place
to another and tourism is travelling for leisure, business or recreational purpose. It is essential to
develop these sector in proper manner so that goal and objectives can be attained. As need and
demand of people keeps on changing so accordingly these industry has to do innovation and
creative for their guests, visitors and so on. The organisation chosen for given assignment is TUI
Group which was founded in 1923 that deals in tourism and hospitality industry. It is regarded as
largest travel, tourism and leisure company in world and owns hotels, cruise ships, retail stores,
travel agencies and so on. The aim of report is to discuss about development of travel as well as
tourism industry and factors driving tourist behaviour. It includes current patterns and key trends
and factors affecting current level of popularity of various global destination.
TASK 1
P1 Key milestones in development of travel and tourism industry and how they shaped industry
The development of travel and tourism industry has took place from ancient time. People
were interested in visiting and travelling different for better experience. From history, it has
found that people travelled across Britain to get education, perform trade, visit religious places
and fight in battles. This sector was recognised after eighteenth century as people started giving
time to themselves (The Development of the Travel and Tourism Industry and the Factors
Affecting it Today, 2015). Key milestones in development of travel as well as tourism industry
are mentioned below:
Years Development
1936 Billy Butlin has opened his first camp of holidays in Skegness
1938 Introduction of Holidays with pay
1946 Fred Pontion has opened his first holiday near Weston Super Mare
1950 Horizon has organised first package air holiday

1952 Introduction of first jet Airline service for passengers
1959 Introduction of first jet Airline service for passengers of Australia
1960 The domestic holidays used has exceeds to 30 million for first time and
foreign holidays rises up to 3.5 million
Early 1960's American Airlines has developed first global distribution systems.
1968 For creation of national parks, countryside act was passed
1969 Introduced development of Tourism act
1976 Concorde goes through service
1981 There is 60% used of at least one car by households in UK on regular basis
1983 77% of British employees have received 4/5 weeks holiday in a year
1987 For the first time, there is exceeds of 20 million abroad holidays while
domestic holidays falls to 28.5 million which was lowest number since
1955.
1989 There is reached of private car ownership up to 20 million
1992 Holiday packages has directed by EU directive and department of national
heritage has created and currently known as Department of culture, sport,
media
1995 Eurostar and Le Shuttle has carried first passengers with help of Channel
Tunnel
1997 There is 70% used of at least one car by all households in UK
1998 The holidays in abroad exceeds to 30 million and 1.4 million of people has
used internet to purchased travel tickets
1999 English Tourist Board was replaced by The English Tourism Council
2001 Easy Jet a No Frills airline has earned 71.6 million profits that carried 11.4
million passengers
2002 Three out of ten packages holiday makers has flown through a no frill