Impact of Tourism Industry on Society and Global Destinations

This essay discusses the impact of tourism industry on society and global destinations, including its positive and negative effects, emerging tourism markets and trends, and ethical issues within the industry.

Tourism and Society

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
First chapter.................................................................................................................................3
Second chapter.............................................................................................................................5
Third chapter................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................9

Introduction
The tourism industry of UK impact the community members both in the positive as well
as negative manner. The tourism sector basically impacts the three main dimensions such as
economic, socio-cultural as well as environmental area. The tourism industry positively impacts
the economy of country by the improving the standards of living of society members, creating
more employment opportunities as well as improved tax revenue of government. However, apart
from all these positive, there are some issues in the tourism industry. The lack of accessibility
assistance can be still seen as the major problem especially for the women who are pregnant,
children, old age people along with person with disabilities related to eye or ear. They face
significant problems when travelling due to inaccessible websites, lack of well adapted hotel
rooms, inaccessible streets and many more. In addition to this, the discrimination on the basis of
religion, caste, creed and colour is also becoming a major problem within tourism sector of UK.
This type of issue is serious in UK that can put negative impact on the tourism sector of the
country. The essay will describe in first chapter the background data related to how the industry
has developed and has become easily accessible to the large number consumers. In addition to
this, the essay will also discuss in second chapter the emergence of new market in tourism
industry that supports in facilitating the customer needs and increase motivational level to travel
more. Moreover, in the third chapter, the essay will give explanation on the impact of tourism
industry by giving major attention on equality within tourism sector. Along with this, the essay
will also outline the positive as well as negative impact of tourism in context to society and
global destinations(Chua and et.al., 2021).
Main Body
First chapter
The tourism sector has improved so much in the recent times. Due to the technological
innovations made in the form of digital platforms, the consumers find easy to select the most
suitable tourist package for them after undergoing into deep research with the support of social
media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other tool. The outcome of these
digital tools has allowed the customers to decide their next tourist destinations in the effective
manner by considering factors such as culture, climatic conditions, traditions, hotels, security
measures and much more. In addition to this, the customer can also select the cost effective

tourist package by comparing it with different available packages and chose the most suitable
one in terms of quality and price. Moreover, the customers now can gain insight about which
tourist destination is best by taking care the reviews written by the customers who already
experienced their travel journey on that particular destination. Before, the launch of digital
platforms, the customers found difficult to reserve their seats due to lots of waiting line which
was time consuming as well as tedious(Scheyvens and Hughes, 2019). Thanks to the launch of
different ticket booking website, the customers can book and select their favourite tourist
destination travelling just by sitting at their home. The customers are now no longer have to wait
in lines for booking their tickets and undergo the long process.
World Tourism data
It can be analysed from the above graph that the tourist arrivals in international countries
has increased at the significant rate when compared with 1950 era where there is no access to
online booking to the year 2018 I year in which the customers have technology to book tickets
just by clicking in ticket booking websites(Beirman, 2020).
The tourism and travel industry of UK has allowed the country to improve its GDP level
as well as standards of living by providing many job opportunities to its citizens who are
involved in the hospitality and tourism sector. In addition to this, it also supported the
government to collect more taxes which enabled the government to build better and powerful
economy.

It can be analysed from the above data that due to the pandemic situation the share of
travel and tourism in the GDP of UK is decreased significantly from 5.3% in 2017 to 2% in the
year 2018(Pencarelli, 2020). The coronavirus situation has caused the temporary lock for
customers to travel to their favourite destinations but the situation is recovering slowly.
Second chapter
The revolutionary trends in the tourism sector and also emergence of new markets has
facilitated the positive experience of travellers. The technological changes also supported the
traveller to enhance their motivational level to travel and go to different destinations in the most
convenient manner. In addition to this, the big sports tournament such as Olympics, Fifa and
Cricket World Cup as well as big concerts are also seen as the main reason behind the increase in
the number of international tourists(Prayag, 2020). These international events attract the large
number of global audiences by taking the support of social media platforms basically for
advertisement and promotional purposes. The creative posts improved the customer motivation
to become a part of that event. Apart from this, there are many tourism trends which has
supported the travellers to reach there and gain the new experience. The one is Virtual Reality
Tourism trends, in this the customer with the help of VR tours can experience the various areas

of hotel in which they want to go and spend. The customer can experience the number of
dimensions like interiors of hotel, outdoor tourist attractions and many more by just sitting in
their home. This technology can allow the customers to make travel related decisions in the most
effective manner as they can now experience what they can take review about what their hotel
looks like and what are the different travel destinations(Holloway and Humphreys, 2022).
The other major trends that attract the customer to perform international travelling is
Solo Travel, in this, the customers who prefer to travel by alone can take the advantage of this
experience. The technological advancements has benefited the solo travellers to decide the travel
destinations on their own and the online booking of transportation and hotels are the critical
reasons which attracted the solo type of travellers(Armenski, Dwyer and Pavluković, 2018).
Moreover, the concept of Eco travel are also getting greater attention from the large number of
international tourists. The greater focus on saving the natural environment has made the
customers to go to foreign destinations with the objective of working in nature reserve as well as
engaging in the environmental protection activities. Moreover, the greater interest of travellers to
engage and participate in the local culture of their favourite country is also the major market that
has the potential to pull large number of tourists in proper manner. Due to social media platforms
like YouTube, the customer can see and feel the different culture and its merits. This can be
recognised as the main reason that motivates the customer to actually see and experience their
favourite culture by visiting that country. Aside from culture, the traditional foods of the country
are also the powerful reason which motivates the customer to try and taste original food by
visiting to the country. Furthermore, the high technological development in the field of
transportation vehicle such as discovery of E- cars and buses are also the main reason which
draws the attention of large number of international tourists in appropriate manner.
Third chapter
The tourism sector impacts the social as well as cultural values of society in the number
of manners. It signifies the influence it creates in the form of social changes which is related to
local people, infrastructure developments, lifestyle changes and much more. The tourism
industry of UK poses positive impact on its community members, tourist destinations and also
supports in boosting economy(Khalid, Okafor and Burzynska, 2021). The high money
investment for the purpose of boosting tourism sector leads to preservation of local heritage and
also supports the society members to gain better facilities in terms of better education, better

leisure opportunities, better lifestyle as well as organisation of social events. In addition to this,
the tourism sector also allow the individuals of society to improve their well-being by providing
large number of job opportunities. This assists the local people of UK to improve their living
standards without moving out of the country. It directly helps the country to boost its GDP in
effective manner. Moreover, the rise in tourism also aid the country to become more proud of
their culture and effectively communicate its social and cultural values to the world leading to
revitalisation of culture and art(Labanauskaitė, Fiore and Stašys, 2020).
However, there are also some negative impacts of tourism sector. The first negative
impact cab be recognised as social change. These changes are basically the way in which the
society acts or behaves in such a way which is undesirable. These undesirable actions can make
citizens of country to fall in illegal practises such as gambling, crime or in worst case drugs. It
can also negatively influence the behaviour of young individuals by following unethical practises
which is not followed in their country. In relation to this, the tourism industry can also become
accountable for the destruction of old heritage buildings and statues by some foreign tourists.
Moreover, the tourism industry boost is also considered a main reason for high traffic that is also
linked to high pollution level. The increase in rush, overcrowding as well as poor sanitation are
also the negative consequences which the country suffers due to flourish in tourism industry. It
also poses a great threat on the sustainable objectives of country that is negatively affected
because of high pollution levels leading to high carbon emissions. In context to ethical issues,
there are also gender problems within tourism industry as the male people are given higher
salaries than the female. Apart from this, the women also faces sexual harassment which is the
big problem in the global tourism sector as a whole. Hence, these above described problems
related to tourism sector needs an urgent dealing for the well-being of community members and
global destinations as a whole. (Nhamo, Dube and Chikodzi, 2020).
Conclusion
It has been concluded from the above essay that travel and tourism industry has
undergone the relevant changes due to the availability of new technologies as well as greater
focus by government on improving the tourist destinations in order to attract large number of
international tourists. The essay has effectively outlined the information related to the

development of tourism industry and also also discussed its positive impact on the economy of
the UK. In addition to this, the essay has also described the impact of emerging new tourism
markets and trends on need of customers. This has supported the customer to increase their
motivational levels as well as helps in satisfying needs and wants in effective manner. Moreover,
the essay has also covered the influence of tourism industry by taking into consideration the
ethical values within the tourism sector. It also included the positive as well as negative effect of
tourism on the society and global destination areas.

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