Understanding the World of Tourism: Impact on Economy, Environment, and Culture

Understanding the World of
tourism
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
ESSAY.............................................................................................................................................3
Factors leading to contemporary tourism development...............................................................3
Economic impact of tourism........................................................................................................4
Environmental considerations related to tourism........................................................................5
Cultural impact of tourism...........................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Tourism is defined as the process or act of giving some time to self, away from the home or
routine work for the purpose of relaxation, pleasure or recreation and using commercial
provisions related to services (Kongbuamai and et.al., 2020). Tourism is not only considered as
an activity for self-pleasure or enjoyment but is also equally important for gaining knowledge,
business, boosting of revenues of economy, cultural preservations as well as infrastructural
development of economy and humanity. Various factors such as globalisation, technology,
transportation services, changing social preferences and dynamics have greatly contributed in
various forms and trends of tourism (Scarlett, 2021). These developments have both positive and
negative impact on social, economic, cultural and environmental perspective. This essay will
provide a discussion of significant impact of tourism development on these multidimensional
aspects.
ESSAY
Factors leading to contemporary tourism development
Contemporary tourism has gained majority of changes and development. The foremost
change that has been observed in tourism is the way in which tourism activities are accessed. The
technology developments act as key driving force in this context. Now a day’s it has become
very easy for people to go online and to search for multiple destinations and on one single click
access the services such as transportation, hotels, food as well as knowledge about the culture or
insights of destinations (Koens, Postma and Papp, 2018). With social media and increasing
digital marketing social perspective about tourism has also changed a lot. Contrary to only
business or family trips people are now considering tourism as integral part of their life.
Thus apart from conventional forms many other forms such as sport tourism, adventure
tourism, spiritual tourism is also gaining huge popularity. Customers in this segment are
exploring various reasons and ways to go for travelling. Easy transportation through cab
services, technology based direction assistive devices, plenty of airports, railways and other
transport medium has made tourism very popular activity. Another major change observed in this
industry is that tourism is now seen as essential element of economic development (Koçak,
Ulucak and Ulucak, 2020). With globalisation and global trade different economies are
connected and dependent upon each other. Thus foreign reserves or exchange of resources
greatly affect the development of nation. As a result of this many countries are completely
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