The Travel and Tourism Sector
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TRAVEL AND TOURISM SECTOR INTRODUCTION 1 TASK 11 1.1 Historical Development in Travel and Tourism sector:1 1.2 Structure of the travel and Tourism sector: 2 TASK 23 2.1 Functions of government, government sponsored bodies and international agencies on travel and tourism:3 2.2 Influences of local and national economic policy on the success of the travel and tourism sector:5 2.3 Implications of political change on the travel and tourism sector in: 5 TASK 36 3.1 Factors affecting Tourism Demand:6 3.2 Changes in
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................11.1 Historical Development in Travel and Tourism sector: ..................................................11.2 Structure of the travel and Tourism sector:......................................................................2TASK 2............................................................................................................................................32.1 Functions of government, government sponsored bodies and international agencies ontravel and tourism:..................................................................................................................32.2 Influences of local and national economic policy on the success of the travel and tourismsector:.....................................................................................................................................52.3 Implications of political change on the travel and tourism sector in:...............................5TASK 3............................................................................................................................................63.1 Factors affecting Tourism Demand:.................................................................................63.2 Changes in Supply at TUI Group:....................................................................................7TASK 4............................................................................................................................................84.1 Negative and positive economical, environmental and social impacts of tourism:.........84.2 Strategies which are made to reduce the negative effect and maximising the positiveimpact ....................................................................................................................................9CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
INTRODUCTIONTravel and tourism sector is rapidly growing industry. Tourism come under luxuriousservices which is provided by different organization in the world to their customers. In this reportwe will first discuss about the historical development of travel and tourism sector with time.Study about different structures of this sector. In task two, we will study the functions ofgovernment, their sponsored bodies and international agencies on this sector, we will alsoexplain the influence of local and national economic policies on the success of this sector. Willalso discuss about the implications of political change on the travel and tourism sector withChina. After that, we will discuss about the factors affecting tourism demand and how supply hasbeen changed at TUI Group to meet these demands. In the last task, we will evaluate somepositive and negative economic, environmental and social impacts of tourism of TUI Group andstrategies to minimize these negative impacts and how to maximize the positive impacts of thecompany.TASK 11.1 Historical Development in Travel and Tourism sector:Travel and tourism industry has changed a lot with the changing time and humanexpectations. It has grown rapidly in the past few years. From 1950's onward, TT sector hasstarted to evolve immensely. People at that time are more likely to spend time in different places,countries, explore new things, trying some new adventure activities, etc. all these factors lead thetourism sector to implement new changes in them. In the growing period of the tourism sector, ithad only options of travelling and transportation but today they offer accommodation along withtransportation (Becker, 2016). Which has attracted so many tourists to travel to different places. From 1960's, several other factors come into existence, such as, increased interest ofpeople for the long trips, improvement of tour packages offered by different countries, growingper capital of the people, etc. Social and economic reasons has also contributed in thedevelopment of this sector. From 1970's, the government entitled the standard five day workingweeks, which led to have more leisure time to spend by the people which they prefer to spend intravelling and exploring. In today's world the tourism industries is being highly affected the otherindustries emerged in this sector. It has so much competition. So, to overcome such thing,
tourism companies are coming up with new and attractive packages for the tourists to enjoy theirstay (Bredvold and Skålén, 2016). So many strategies is being used by the industry to stay in themarket. Now, travel and tourism sector has not only travelling services but they are also offeringother services too like hotel stay, food, taxi services for the whole trip etc, according thecustomers demand.1.2 Structure of travel and Tourism sector:It's a huge industries so it has many factors which make the structure of the industry verystrong. These can be categorized as following:Transportation: It forms at least 20% of the whole outline of the trip as withouttransportation, no trip can happen. Tourists can use different modes of transportationaccording to their comfort and liking such as, Airlines, Railways, Taxis, Cruise liners etc.Accommodation: Giving accommodation is very important to the travel and tourismindustry to attract tourists (Backer and Ritchie, 2017). Tourists travelling far from theirhomes, they prefer a place where they can stay peacefully and chill for the entire trip.Tourists like places which serves some extra services to them like entertainment, food &beverages, sports activities etc. Attraction: Tourists travel most to those places which has some attractive places to visitthere. It is there primary motive of travelling. Many tour packages has combined differentattractions to the packages they are offering them. Attractions cab be natural like gardensand national parks; historical like ancient palaces; cultural like art exhibition, theatres;man-made like museums or entertainment like cinemas, parks (Cook, and et.al., 2014).Travel Agent: Travel agents are those who manages to arrange the trips for the clientaccording to their interests. Travel advice, ticket sales, visa information, etc, all these arearranged by travel agencies only. Tour operators: Tours operators plays a large role in this sector, as they provide servicesof tour packages for the tourists for example, Thomson, Expedia etc. Buying thepackages in bulk can reduce the overall costs of the package. Holiday packages are givento customers as a brochure by the travel agents.Travel Services:Migrating from one place to another, these services helps a lot, forexample buses, car, trains, aircraft, vessel, etc.
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