The Travel and Tourism Sector: Historical Developments and Structure

The Travel and Tourism Sector
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Task 1
1.1 Explain key historical developments in the travel and tourism sector.
1.2 Explain the structure of the travel and tourism sector.
Key historical developments in
the travel and tourism sector
The industry of travel and tourism
has grown with change of human
inclination towards tourism and
the rise of expectations.
Back in early 1945, when travel
and tourism had just begun with
industrial revolution. Widely the
travel then was done for sole
purpose of transporting and
extracting goods and services
forth and back from cities and
countries. There also have been
times, when travel has been solely
dedicated to pilgrimage tours,
cultural visits, and significant
religious relevance.
Great change occurred between
1945-1979. It began with small
scale individual businessmen
expanded and inclined towards
engaging integrated activities.
Hotels were being filled up with
people looking for more than
mere accommodation. So the
development of hotels began into
shopping arcades and then into
secretarial centres in order to
manage and accommodate people
within hotel complex.
Contemporary to this,
transportation sector and
mediums began to boon. There
have been turning factors since
1960, coming into notice, like
availability of time to spend on
travelling, rising interest of
travellers in long-leisure leaves,
growth of per capital income of
Tourism Services
Services that are conjoined with
numerous other activities
beginning from travelling and
accommodation to hotel stay and
hospitality services etc.
Conferences and events
Travel industry includes various
aspects of travel and travel
motives. Tourism not only covers
transport travel business but
hospitality sector too.
Accommodation services
These are services provided to the
travellers managing their
respective accommodation and
meals outside.
Passengers transport services
These are services provided to the
customer as free of expense
services by agency and industry
involved in tourism.
Collaboration of private and
public sectors
It refers to joint ventures of two
sectors generating best deals and
services to entice customers and
travellers across the globe.
Leper’s tourist system
It is a kind that provides
description of respective
destinations to their client with bit
of knowledge and guidance regard
the curriculum and management of
the visit. It is done for the
travellers, so that they can be
vigilant, free with wishes and
Conclusion
From the study of report it can be
derived that travel and tourism
has evolved and developed a lot
since the beginning and has
wider scope of development and
growth still. The services in
travel and tourism are minutely
interrelated and dependent,
although are filled with varied
functioning and management.
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