Analysis of Contemporary Global Tourism Issues and Challenges

This report provides an overview of contemporary global issues impacting the tourism industry. It delves into the significance of climate change, highlighting its influence on tourist demand and destination choices. The report then examines the role of Information and Communication Technologies (IC...Read More

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Contemporary Global issues in Tourism
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Contents
Contemporary issues in Global Tourism....................................................................................2
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Contemporary Global Issues......................................................................................................2
Climate change.......................................................................................................................2
ICT and technological advancement......................................................................................3
Transportation........................................................................................................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................4
References..................................................................................................................................5

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Contemporary issues in Global Tourism
Introduction
In this paper, we will outline the contemporary global issues occurring in the environment
where world’s tourism industry operates. The discussion will also include the overview of the
significance and the influence causes of tourism industry. Furthermore, we will contemplate
the factors those shape this tourism industry and the contemporary issues that impact the
effective management of the global tourism (Lennon, 2015).
Contemporary Global Issues
According to (Lennon, 2015) tourism sector is one of those sectors which have instigated the
changes at a very large scale. The global contemporary issues are greatly associated with the
technological as well as social modifications in the world community. Therefore, at present
the sphere is giving foremost attention to identify the available trends in the world’s travel
and tourism sector. 3 key issues out of them have been chosen to be presented here, are as
follows:
Climate change
According to (Mackay & Spencer, 2017) Fine weather and climate change are those
contemporary global attributes that are common for all tourism destinations worldwide.
Besides, it is that major issue which has significantly changed the elementary dimensions of
global tourism industry at an extensive level. Climate policies will impact world tourism, in 2
major approaches:
1) If the policies, programs and actions are made for mitigating the climate impact on
global tourism (Nieves & Segarra Cipres, 2015).
2) In the way available climate change policies influence the global tourism.
Thus, (Qiu et al., 2018) advise that climate change is having an exclusive effect on tourists’
demand that will have a further influence on duration of traveling as well as destination
choice by the tourists. In this context, (Mackay & Spencer, 2017) are proposing that a
detailed climate info must be computed and provided to the global travel and tourism sector
through applying probabilities, immoderations, mean values, and frequencies. Moreover, the

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methods such as applied climatology as well as the human biometeorology might be applied
to resolve the climate related issues in global tourism. These foundations of climatological as
well as meteorological statistics include national weather services, private weather services
environmental agencies and so many other governmental authorities which are having their
self-networks for the world climate measurement.
ICT and technological advancement
Efficient as well as high-speed Information and communications technologies (referred as
ICT) structure and soft wares applications are critical for the global tourism development.
Because ICTs permit customer-management relationships as well as supply chain
management to be united in a sole source this can facilitate a range of operations. These
operations include product selection, fulfilment, ordering, and tracking of products, payment
processing and reporting which are to be executed with a single easy-to-use tool. Besides,
ICT eventually cut the costs through allowing the supplier to be in straight communication
with the customer. ICT use in global tourism industry also impacts on employment by
introducing the need for the essential care of ICT equipment’s that is utilized in the tourism
sector (Mackay & Spencer, 2017).
The growth of ICT has led to modifications in supply and demand. The higher demand for
flexibility, individualized options as well as quality of info has been fulfilled by the ICT
system. From innovative technology as well as social, economic ratings using social media
like Twitter, Facebook blogs, customers are leveraged with the capability to give feedback on
various facilities. Moreover, through ICT use customers can see research ratings of
destinations, ratings of service quality of hotels as well as restaurants and also environmental,
social circumstances. In this context, hotels like Marriott, Ritz Carlton, Hyatt and other five-
star have reinforced their branding image as well as communication strategies with the help
of technological advancements through ICT (riorini, 2017).
Transportation
The relationship between transportation-associated aspects such as costing of the fuel, oil and
tourism is an important factor for the effective tourism facilities in any area of the world.
There are many effects of transportation variations on world tourism industry (Van Truong &
Shimizu, 2017). Additionally, the destination features such as travel linkage, availability of
transportation greatly influence the local liveliness as well as management of the regional
reception of tourism. This can be further explained as, when a good numbers of civic

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transportation choices are offered by the tourist destination then tourism sector of that place
will have a bright future. These readily available transportation choices in that tourist area
attracts more tourists and those tourists can leverage the fortify transportation of the chosen
destination. The transportation is also having great significance for the global economy
growth and the whole tourism industry as well. For an example, there are many places like
hilly areas where transportation is available; still we all prefer to take our personal vehicles
with us as far as possible. The reason behind the above practice is that acquiring
transportation at those places is time consuming, might be costly and many other risks are
associated with the transportation facility at those places (Van Truong & Shimizu, 2017).
The inflation rates also affects market conditions highly and cause random market conditions,
which subsequently increases the cost of transportation fuel and fares for the tourists. Hence,
the market situations and random currency variations are the major issues for future global
tourism industry. Because of the above said elements, the local travelling and transportation
mode becomes costly, unreachable and expensive. Therefore, well-ordered transportation
facilities department contributes largely to the travel and tourism of the globe (Van Truong &
Shimizu, 2017).
Therefore, these above 3 contemporary global issues highly tend to be thought-provoking for
the world tourism industry in future.
Conclusion
In conclusion, global tourism is a way to build country’s economy better in all ways. With the
help of tourism improving ideas, experiences and cultures, challenges can be addressed for
the upcoming tourism industry. Hence there is an urgency to advance the sectors related to
global tourism by all means. This discussion is an attempt to help in addressing problems of
global tourism by the decision-makers who are having the concrete knowledge and authority
of the tourism industry.

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