The Travel and Tourism Sector

The Travel and Tourism
Sector

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
1.1 Key historical developments in travel and tourism sector....................................................4
1.2 Structure of travel and tourism sector...................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
2.1 Function of government, international agencies and government sponsored bodies in
travel and tourism........................................................................................................................6
2.2 The way in which local & national economic policy impacts the success of travel and
tourism industry..........................................................................................................................7
2.3 Implications of political change on travel & tourism sector in different countries..............8
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
3.1 Factors that affects tourism demand.....................................................................................8
3.2 The way supply has changed to meet effects of demand......................................................9
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
4.1 Evaluation of positive & negative environmental, economic and social impacts of tourism
.....................................................................................................................................................9
4.2 Strategies that can be utilized to decrease the negative impacts while increasing positive
impacts......................................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Travel and tourism is identified as one of the rapidly growing sector of economy that
plays vital role in development of country. This industry is the largest foreign exchange earner of
world among all sectors and administers employment directly to many peoples. Travel and
tourism industry constitutes of exchanging tourists within nations and render them with all
required facilities (Travel and tourism sector. 2017). In the present assignment, chosen
organisation is Touristik Union International (TUI) which is an Anglo German tourism firm
headquartered in Berlin, Germany. This report covers structure and history of travel & tourism
sector as well as influence of national and local government and international agencies on it.
Apart from this, it also defines about effect of demand and supply on travelling industry and
impact of tourism on TUI group business.
TASK 1
1.1 Key historical developments in travel and tourism sector
In 1945, agriculture is seen as the major source of employment for most of the people. In
between this era, only 'elite' individuals utilized to optimise travelling luxuries or extravagances
in moving from one place to other. After revolution in travelling industry, more drastic
alterations were expected by people however, there were less changes saw in this sector. A
negative influence were made by Industrialization on this section as individuals were selecting
holiday services more probably. In this time, tour administrators, travel agents and hotels were
working independently. In recent time, most businesses were confronting issues because of
world war so nobody was convey much attention to economical condition of nation.
Between 1945-1979, critical changes were takes place in travelling and tourism business
as this has increase most extreme development and growth in certain time frame. Demands of
customers were considering by hotels and began to provide diverse exotics and plans to make
such administrations accessible for distinctive income groups (Buckley, 2012). Transport group
operations start new offers & services for example, travelling insurance with help of aircraft
ventures. They were additionally rendering accommodation facilities that was pulling in more
potential customers. Before year 1980, people were investing their leisure time in opting
travelling services in holidays. These new alterations bought various positive changes in
industry. As technological developments introduced in this sector, the division has achieved new

statures. This leads to decline in operational cost and emphasize more on target market. Life
standard of people of UK community was developing so they started to deploy travelling
activities more.
In current situation, travel and tourism sector play essential part in economic
development of country. It creates a lot of employment opportunities for local people of
respective country who are more disposed in business exercises like working as travel agents,
business guides etc. In this period, the legal authority or government were not aware more about
promotion & benefits regarding tourism sector (Evans, Stonehouse and Campbell, 2012). TUI
render all kinds of travelling arrangements to people along with accommodation, transportation
and some more. Thus, youth is receiving profession in tourism division as there are different
visitors who are moving from one destination to other. They want to visit various destinations.
Photography has significant part in the progression and advancement of tourism and travelling
sector along with social media. Potential clients get more pulled in toward these promotional
exercises and became inquisitive for such places. It inspires people to visit more and make trip to
specific places.
1.2 Structure of travel and tourism sector
Structure of tourism and travelling industry is complicated or complex in some nations. It
is that segment which does not rely upon one area or locale, state or division. They are
thoroughly rely upon travel arrangement which are existing in different countries. Fascination is
one of the significant component inside the tourism business, it can be made or arranged. There
are different components which exist in this industry that are not extremely conceivable.
Alongside this, transportation is critical part in whole system because of this, explorers can move
from one country to next. In current situation, clients are prepared to give careful consideration
in more sum which give better administrations and facilities. At that time, there maybe a couple
of transportation mode that are accessible however, in recent time people can move from one
place to another with the assistance of trains, cars, airlines and so on (Garín-Muñoz and Pérez-
Amaral, 2011). TUI group has incorporates 150 air plane and 14 luxury ships. Travel specialists
as well as tour operators are identified as medium between clients and association such as TUI.
They are buying different sorts of tour packages and a few handout and after that offer them at
higher cost for getting substantial measure of gainfulness. Such program and sessions can be sold
which straightforwardly influence to the clients and furthermore take help with operators.