Contemporary Issues influencing Tourism Globally

Contemporary Hotel and Tourism Issue
Contemporary Issues influencing Tourism Globally

Introduction
Tourism industry is slow to embrace the advantages of the knowledge of
economy and particularly adopting the knowledge management practices
along with boosting competitiveness by using service development and
knowledge for innovation.
The world is transforming which creates the effect on tourism sector. As
stated by Nagy and Carr (2018), tourism industry is progressing and
advancing with more numbers of customers in each passing days.
At the same time, tourism industry is facing several issues globally.

Technological advancement
Technology plays a significant role in tourism and travel sector as
most of the bookings of hotels come from the online
reservation.
Technological advances allow the tourism sector to reach more
people and it empowers the tourists to make their own decision.
However, technology leads to provide less personalised service
which helps to generate more revenue through transportation
hubs and airplanes.
In recent time, large hotel chains are using advanced technologies
to serve the guests in hotels and resorts.

Being a service industry, tourism sector is using technologies and it
creates the lack of warmth of human touch along with take-home
experience.
Technologies harm the environment and the travel and tourism sectors
fail to sell the memories to the guests (Neuhofer et al. 2014).
Tourism sector hires people to use the technologies in the hotel and
resorts; however, if the people are not trained properly, they will
not learn the use of technologies.
Technological advancement allows the people to visit the virtual tour
of the place.