Travel and Tourism Growth and Developments

This document discusses the major growth and developments in the travel and tourism industry. It covers the establishment of holiday camps, introduction of passenger service jets, tourism regulations, online ticketing and bookings, and the merger of tourism authorities. It also explores the role of regulatory bodies, tour operators, public organizations, and accommodation and travel services in promoting tourism in the UK.

Travel and tourism TASK 1
YEAR Major growth and developments
1936 Various holiday camps were established by the billy butlin
1938 Introduction of an Act of payment for these holidays camps
1959 Starting of an passengers service jet
1969 Tourism act was introduced which covers various legislations regarding travel and tourism
regulation in country.
1989 For the growth of travel sector, passenger cars were introduced in the country.
1992 In this year, the holidays packages were developed by the European unions members countries
for the people.
1998 In this year, the online facility of purchasing tickets and online bookings was introduced and
the numbers of holidays in abroad were reached to 30 millions.
2003 A major development has been made in this by the merger of two major authorities such as
English tourism council and authority of British tourism (Moutinho, 2011).
2004 Major growth has been provided in this year through introduction of concept of reconstruction
or reuse of historical buildings and monuments.
Tour operators and distributors: These are some
organization which is based and regulate their business
operations in travel and tourism by providing major
facilities and services to the people in domestic country
or in other countries. In present context, TUI group is
also major private sector organization in tourism sectors
which provides various services for the customers like
private aircraft, passengers cars, cruise liners and hotels
facilities to promote the tourism within UK. They have
played a major role in enhancing the numbers of
Holidays booking by developing various affordable
packages for the people.
Regulatory bodies: Government and its departments
are considered as the regulatory bodies that develops
various policies and regulations to promote the travel
and tourism services in UK. In present context, they
have taken various steps to increase the number of
tourists in country like introduction of free trade
agreements, removal of travelling visas regulations,
introduction of various aviation services,
reconstruction of historical tourist destinations.
Public organizations: These are considered as
major part of the structure which consists of these
organizations which are supported by government
to increase the tourism in country that also
represents the cultural heritage of the countries,
this organization have there major contribution in
introducing the concept of reuse of historical
buildings that represents and historical
architecture in the country like Tower of London,
church, theatres etc.
Accommodation and travel services: There are
range of accommodation services have been
offered by TUI group as they are associated with
many hospitality industries firms and also
promote their advertisement on the websites.
Some well known places of accommodation in
UK are Hotels, inns, B&B and camping sites etc.
Along with this, the structure also involves the
firms that provides travel services to the tourist
like air transport, sea travel and road transport
facilities. Further, there are some airports which
are connected with the railways like Heathrow
Airport, Gatwick airport etc. thus, it can be said
that there effective proper arrangements of
accommodations and travelling has been
available in the country.