The Contemporary Travel and Tourism Industry

The Contemporary
Travel and Tourism
Industry
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Different key milestones for development of the travel & tourism industry and their role in
shaping of travel and tourism industry...................................................................................3
P2: Different elements of tourism and travel industry and its interrelation for creation of a
tourism experience..................................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
P3 Determine the diverse factors that affect tourism behaviour............................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P4 Explain model of motivation & how they influence the consumer decision making process
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TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P5 Identify recent and emerging patterns and trends in the international travel and tourism
industry...................................................................................................................................9
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................14
P6 Examine the factors affecting the popularity of a range of global destinations..............14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17
Reference.......................................................................................................................................18
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Introduction
Travel and tourism can be defined as part recreational activity that is part of people's lives
and is also helpful in development of the economy of a country. In the modern scenario tourism
is the major reasons of development taking place in the global environment (Camilleri, 2018).
Present report is based on a presentation related with the destination representation and the
various historical developments in the travel and tourism industry. Cosmos is UK independent
operator that is providing different packages holidays to citizens of UK. They are having
connection with international travelling group and it was founded in 1928 that is having
headquarters in Switzerland. There is also a discussion about the various elements that have
combined to provide a better tourism experience. Further, there is discussion of various factors
that is affecting the overall tourism behaviour and models of motivation which influence the
consumer decision making process. Lastly, there is identification of the recent and emerging
trends in the international tourism industry and various factors that are affecting the popularity of
a particular Global destination.
TASK 1
P1 Different key milestones for development of the travel & tourism industry and their role in
shaping of travel and tourism industry
Key elements of the tourism and travel Industry that is helping in increasing the attractiveness of
tourist destination:
Legislation:
The Government of UK has recognised the importance of tourism and has introduced some new
policies and laws over some years (Giap, Gopalan and Ye, 2016). There has been development
of tourism Act 1969, is having a aim to co-ordinate all the organisations at a part of tourism
sector. This act has provided the establishment of British tourist authority and a tourist board for
Scotland England and ways with a responsibility to promote the tourism of development and in
the Great Britain. It is also providing certain financial assistance from the available public fund
for provision of new hotels and various other establishments for sleeping accommodation that is
provided by way of some business or trade. There is also development of air passenger duty
1996, in this there is a tax imposed by the government on all passengers that a flying outside UK
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and in 1996 this duty was reduced on different economic life and it acted as removal of a barrier
for the growth of environment tourism.
Product development:
There have been many developments as use of holiday camps increase by use of package
holidays 1949. In which there were package holidays that were inclusive of all the food and
transportation facilities for tourist (Rosselló, Becken and Santana-Gallego, 2020). There also has
been technological development 1990 in which Technologies can be used in the travel and
tourism industry internet has revolutionized the way people are buying travel products. Call
Centres have been developed that is used extensively by much holiday company. There is digital
and cable TV that is selling travel products.
Transport development:
There has been transportation development for the travel and tourism because there is
Introduction of air travelling since the year 1950. There is also a real facility, further people are
also having preferences for buses and cars also lead to more convenient to travel across different
parts of the world.
Lifestyle changes:
There have been changes in the Lifestyle that is lead to increasing the disposable income
of people. There is trend in that they can spend on early holidays and the travel and tourism
industry because if there is high percentage of people who are having low income then they are
not going to spend it on reservation activities (Houdement, Santos, and Serra, 2017). People are
now having wide range of time saving household income and they are leisure time to enjoy with
their friends family on short and long holidays.
P2: Different elements of tourism and travel industry and its interrelation for creation of a
tourism experience
There are three basic components of a tourism and are also recognised as some important factors
of tourism as mentioned below:
1) Accessibility:
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