Tourism and Society: Impacts, Behaviour and Sustainability

Tourism and Society

INTRODUCTION
From the economic perspective, Tourism is the leading industry as it generates wealth
and jobs but the wealth leaks from the community and the jobs are mainly low income. In
tourism industry, people from different background and cultures work together to serve people.
The contribution of tourism sector is so high that it helps in achieving success. The main aim of
the essay is to identify how different political, economic and socio cultural contexts influence
practices and principles of sustainability. Furthermore, it will explain interaction and
interdependence of people, processes and places involved within tourism. It is very important for
the world to develop tourism sector as an industry as it highly make contribution in GDP. This
topic is important for the development of tourism as an industry and society now and in the
future because it enhances the social well-being and economic benefits of the local community
without compromising the integrity of the environment. If there is sustainable tourism then it
helps in minimizes the external factors negative effects. With the understanding of this topic, one
can easily know how tourism promotes the respect of heritages and local cultures (Kim and et.al.,
2021). The essay will also cover some important points on sociology which is the study of
structure, development and functioning of human society. With the sociology, one can
understand about the social causes, social changes and social life of human behaviour. This helps
in enhancing the understanding of how people interact with each other.
This essay has three sections, the first section is going to cover about tourism and society
and their relationship. This section is going to provide some models and also how destination has
welcomed tourism using stakeholder management (Nurpeissova and Islam, 2021). In the second
section, the essay will cover negative and positive impacts of tourism on society as well as the
societal impacts on destinations. Using pestle analysis, external environment will be taken into
consideration. Plus, in the third section, tourist behaviour and expectations of the consumption of
travel is included. Also, it will cover how this has impacted on the society as well destinations.
First Section
Tourism is all about the activities of persons travelling from one place to another and
spending time in different places and stay outside. It includes hotels, motels, tourist camps,
accommodation and food and entertainment. From the social cultural perspective, tourism brings
together people from various types of culture, religion, backgrounds having different languages

and beliefs. They promote peace together for the betterment of society. Tourism boosts the
economy revenue, giving employment opportunities, creates thousands of job opportunities and
develops the infrastructure of a country (Fitch and et.al., 2022). The country whose tourism
sector is well-developed can benefit as it opens the gate to the outside world and beauty around
them. Jobs which is created in the tourism sector are of particular importance for men, young
people, women and migrant employees, who make up a large share of workers in the sector.
Talking about tourism sector of UK it is made up of different kinds of enterprises which includes
passenger transport, food and beverage and travel agencies (Khan and et.al., 2022).
Total contribution of travel and tourism to GDP in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2019 to
2021
In the year 2018, 1.4 billion domestic trips were taken to English destinations with
spending of £56.5 billion. In the year 2019, almost £24.8 billion were spent by overseas visitors
making £36.1 million trips. In the year 2020, UK spent a total of 6.2 billion (Mordue, Moss and
Johnston, 2020). In terms of revenue, US was the country worldwide with the highest
international tourism receipts in the year 2021. Speaking about the latest records, with the