Analysis of Contemporary Issues Influencing Tourism Globally Report

This report examines three contemporary issues significantly influencing the global tourism industry: technological advancement, increased environmental awareness, and lack of security. The analysis explores how technology, while enhancing reach and bookings, can lead to less personalized service and environmental harm. It also discusses the impact of increasing tourist numbers on environmental degradation, including soil erosion, pollution, and overuse of resources. Furthermore, it addresses security concerns, including terrorism and political unrest, and their impact on tourist destinations. The report utilizes recent industry and academic sources to discuss the implications of these issues for the future of the tourism sector. The conclusion suggests that addressing these challenges is crucial for sustainable tourism development. The report is referenced with at least six sources.

Contemporary Hotel and Tourism Issue
Contemporary Issues influencing Tourism Globally

Introduction
Tourism industry is slow to embrace the advantages of the knowledge of
economy and particularly adopting the knowledge management practices
along with boosting competitiveness by using service development and
knowledge for innovation.
The world is transforming which creates the effect on tourism sector. As
stated by Nagy and Carr (2018), tourism industry is progressing and
advancing with more numbers of customers in each passing days.
At the same time, tourism industry is facing several issues globally.

Technological advancement
Technology plays a significant role in tourism and travel sector as
most of the bookings of hotels come from the online
reservation.
Technological advances allow the tourism sector to reach more
people and it empowers the tourists to make their own decision.
However, technology leads to provide less personalised service
which helps to generate more revenue through transportation
hubs and airplanes.
In recent time, large hotel chains are using advanced technologies
to serve the guests in hotels and resorts.

Being a service industry, tourism sector is using technologies and it
creates the lack of warmth of human touch along with take-home
experience.
Technologies harm the environment and the travel and tourism sectors
fail to sell the memories to the guests (Neuhofer et al. 2014).
Tourism sector hires people to use the technologies in the hotel and
resorts; however, if the people are not trained properly, they will
not learn the use of technologies.
Technological advancement allows the people to visit the virtual tour
of the place.

Today’s generation is facing the tech-fatigued and they do not like the
advancement of technologies in the tourism sector.
Technological advancement does not provide the opportunity to go
close to the nature and enjoy the naked and serene beauty.
Therefore, the people today are selecting off-beat destinations for
travelling where they can visit the nature close without the
disturbance of technology.
In Australia, Daintree Rainforest
is perfect for East Coast Trip for
the travellers where the tourists
can visit the place without any
interruption of technologies and
surprises are waiting to be
explored.

Increased environmental awareness
Numbers of visitors are increasing in tourism destinations and it creates negative impact on the tourism
destination when the numbers of visitors in a place is greater than the environmental ability.
Increasing number of tourists creates potential threat to the natural areas as it poses enormous pressure
to the area which impact on the soil erosion, discharge into sea and increase pollution along with
natural habitat.
Tourism industry overuses the water resources, mainly fresh water through hotel, bars and restaurant,
golf courses and swimming pool.
Prioritizing
environmental
protection

Tourism industry creates pressure on the local resources like food,
energy and raw materials which face the issue of short supply.
Tourism industry has been creating direct influence on natural
resources, both renewable and non-renewable for providing tourist
facilities.
Pollution is another result of tourism as transport by air, road and rail
increases the pollution.
Moreover, solid waste and littering is another result of pollution as
high concentration of tourist activities brings new waste disposal
along with creates the serious problem to natural environment.

Eco tourism helps to reach the tourists nearer to local wild-life and it
creates influence on natural areas.
Hotels, restaurants and bars emit the sewage and it damages the flora and
fauna along with corals.
Tourism industry is expanding day-by-day and the organisations and
government are doing deforestation and intensified use of land which
can pose problem to local eco-system.
In recent time, Australia Great Barrier Reef has
been facing the issue of coral bleaching as the
coral reefs are dying due to coral mining, pollution
and visiting maximum visitors.

Lack of security
Security arrangement is the key feature of the safety of the tourists
against any type of threats.
Government or the travel and tourism organisations increased the
security measures so that the travellers must be safe.
In each year, travellers are increasing in numbers and their safety
depends on the local government and on the tourism
organisations.
Disposable incomes of the people have increased globally and the
people like to enjoy their holidays spending in travel
destinations.

However, terrorism and social security influences the growth and development of the
tourism in some of the regions where the terrorism has become an issue (Bassil 2016).
The instance of 9/11 can be put for the reference as it created the impact on the people not
to visit America for a time.
The level of security to the travellers has been increased for the safety of the internal
tourists by government.
Suspects and convicts of
Terrorists in the UK

In Middle Eastern Asia, network of terror events has created panic among
the travellers and the visit of travellers has significantly got down.
Terrorism influences on the travel industry along with political unrest
which creates an impact of security breach among the travellers.
Travellers do not want to visit such places with terrorism threat and
political issues. In Middle East Asia, terrorism has reduced the number
of tourists’ arrival in Turkey by 30%.
Security issue also leads to lack of tourist coming in Tunisia, Morocco and
Egypt.
Relationship
between
terrorism and
tourism

Conclusions
The major issues in Tourism sector play the crucial role in selecting the tourist spot for
the travellers.
The travellers will find the places where the challenges are less and growth of the
tourism industry will be slowed down.
Tourism industry creates uncertain market conditions along with volatile currency
fluctuations also create issue.
Three major issues are hard to solve; however, the solution is needed to develop for
sustainable tourism.

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