Functions of Government and International Agencies in Travel and Tourism Sector

This presentation discusses the functions of government, its sponsored bodies, and international agencies in the travel and tourism sector. It also explores the influence of local and national economic policy on the success of the sector. The case study focuses on TUI Group, a prominent organization in the industry.

Travel and Tourism Sector
(TASK 2)

TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Functions of government, its sponsored bodies and
international agencies in travel and tourism
• Influence of local and national economic policy on
success of travel and tourism sector
• Conclusion
• References

INTRODUCTION
In today scenario travel and tourism sector plays important
role in developing the growth of economy. it is generally
seen that most of population inclined towards travelling
and like to go at famous destinations particularly choose
abroad to travel. One of the common reason behind this is
massive improvement and innovative techniques which
offer attractive deals to tourists. The organisation referred
here is TUI Group.

Functions of government, its sponsored bodies
and international agencies
Government has to take care about sentiments of foreign
people as well. This provides good image in world's
economy. Policies framed by government will be
fulfilled by operators of travelling business such as TUI
organisation. It is important for these operator to follow
these rules in order to smooth running of business.
Operators are:
 Local government
 International organisations
 United nations World Tourism organisation

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Local government- There are many places ion UK, but it is
not possible to that central government can take care of
every place. So they get delegate some authority to local
government bodies.
International organisations- They are same as local bodies
but they have to perform this task at wide level. They are
the representatives with government of other nation.
United nations World Tourism organisation- there plays
very important role in tourism sector. They keep eyes on
different activities of brokers so this makes improvement
in their activities.

Influence of local and national economic policy
on success of travel and tourism sector
TUI has different expenses such as transportation,
accommodation, guide fees, etc. affects travel business.
Government should emphasis on creating good venues so
that visitors like to visit it.
It is not necessary that all policies framed b y government
gives negative impact to growth of business. Government
should frame policies such as they can provide provision
of rebate in case of small and heritage hotel so
management of TUI will prefer such places for tourist.

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The influence can be described as:
 Government must provide assistance to hotels and
motels so they entertain tourist in best way, if hotels get
more benefits through it.
 Government must emphasis people to learn different
languages so that there is language barriers.
 There must be proper fund reserve for development of
tourist destination development. It is important to
promote places so that visitors may know what they can
visit.

Conclusion
It has been concluded from whole presentation that travel
and tourism sector is the one of the prominent department
which contribute in the development of whole economy.
Government of UK also contribute huge amount in the
infrastructure and maintaining the beauty of tourist
destinations. Various subsidies are provided to all travel
industry in order to promote all the places which are
famous in UK so more and more visitor approach that
country which increase foreign currency.

References
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