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Travel and Tourism Assignment: Development in Tourism

   

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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Key historical and current development in tourism.....................................................................1Factors that motivate tourist to visit particular destination.........................................................2Investigating the 6A’s of tourist destinations..............................................................................5Key organisations involved in the Tourism supply chain in different sectors of travel andtourism.........................................................................................................................................6CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTIONTravel and tourism sector has been successfully evolved to a huge extent since past fewyears. Also, it plays a major role in maintaining the economy of the country as well (Eugenio andInchausti, 2016). It has been observed that the tourism and travel sector comes under one of thelargest earner of the foreign exchange. Along with this, it has also provided employment to ahuge amount of unemployed people. The report is about understanding the current developmentand historic features in this industry. Also, it includes types of tourism and factors because ofwhich the tourists visit some particular destination. Elements essential and key organisations inthe travel and tourism sector have also been included. Key historical and current development in tourismFrom the pastime, there have been observed enormous changes in the travel and tourismsector. The initiatives for the development of the sector were first observed in the year 1945.Although it is obvious enough that at that time, there was less availability of the resources, thusthe people might have faced many troubles but as in the incoming years, the ways of deliveringservices changed to a huge extent and people are having various number of facilities as well. Italso helped in increasing the interest of people in travelling and visiting such places, exploringthe world. There are various types of tourism and a few of them are discussed as following :Mass tourismMass tourism is considered as tourism when a large amount of people are visiting thesame tourist place at the same time. Mass tourism is classified as one of the most well knownand popular type of tourism. Various locations can be involved in this type of tourism such asresorts, theme gardens and parks etc. and as a mass amount of tourists visit there, these places areusually crowded enough. Some very well known and popular characteristics of mass tourism arediscussed as under :SpatiallypolarisedDestinations under mass tourism such as parks, resorts usually have some specialisedsmall markets that gain the attention of people who come to visit there. It also includes beaches,sky holidays etc. Segmented marketsAlso, these mass tourist destinations have segmented markets and there is a sort ofdependency factor present on it. It further helps in implementing economic relationships as well. 1

Special interest tourismSpecial interest tourism (SIT) is considered as a provision of various tourist activities thathave been customised and completes some common interests of people, groups etc. In this formof tourism, the main focus relies on providing satisfaction over specific need or interest. Somecharacteristics of it are discussed as below :Customised activitiesInstead of involving enormous number of activities, special interest tourism focuses oncustomising some basic and essential activities that can help in satisfying the actual need(Schegg and Stangl, 2017). EnrichingPeople associated with SIT have a specialised set of benefits such as it helps in enrichinga great amount of enrichment along with a increasing rate of awareness as well. Factors that motivate tourist to visit particular destinationIn the modern era people are very engaged in their personal and professional lives. Insuch condition they do not get adequate time to spend with their families. But increasing tourismactivities are motivating them to go to particular places and enjoy thee. There are many peoplethose who visits different places from different reasons (London tourism report 2014-2015,2015). Demand for tourismLondon is the favour t destination from the point of view of tourist. Over a period oftimes transportation, hospitality have been grown well in this country. This has given newgrowth to the tourism industry. As more travellers are taking interest in coming to this place.They spend such large amount whenever they come here that money is further utilized by thegovernment for the development of the nation. Statistical records of 2014 reflects that in thatyear approx 11.4 million domestic visitors have travellers from great Britain to the London. Totalspend of these visitors was 24.4 million in the same year (Murray and Kline, 2015). In the year2015 this figurers have been increased by 5%. London is the attractive place and from manylocations people come to this destination from different purposes. 2

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