Contemporary Tourism: Analyzing Trends, Impacts, and Challenges

This report provides an overview of contemporary tourism, defining it as the activities of people traveling and staying outside their usual environment, driven by leisure, business, or other purposes. It highlights the dynamic and competitive nature of the tourism industry, emphasizing its constant adaptation to customer needs. The report discusses various types of tourism, including outbound, inbound, and domestic, and delves into the concept of contemporary tourism, which focuses on emotional travel experiences and connections with local communities. It explores the positive impacts of tourism, such as job creation, economic growth, and preservation of local traditions, as well as the negative impacts, including seasonal unemployment, cultural changes, and environmental issues. The report further analyzes the socio-cultural and environmental impacts of tourism, both positive and negative, concluding with the importance of understanding tourism's multifaceted effects on economies and societies. Desklib offers a wealth of resources, including solved assignments and past papers, to aid students in their studies.

Understanding the
World of Tourism
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Table of content
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main body........................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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Introduction
Tourism is referred to the activities of people that travel and stay at a specific place that is
usually outside the regular environment of a particular individual. Leisure can be referred as one
of the reason behind tourism along with business as well as various other purposes. The travel
duration under the concept of tourism is considered to be of less than that of an year. Tourism is
considered as a dynamic as well as a competitive industry (Almeida-Santana and Moreno-Gil,
2018). The tourism industry is required to consistently adapt to the various dynamic needs and
desires of the customers in order to satisfy the customers along with providing safety as well as
enjoyment to them. There are various kinds of tourism such as outbound tourism, inbound
tourism, Domestic tourism and Tourism sectors. Outbound tourism is basically the most common
and most familiar where the visitors travel to other regions. Inbound tourism is when a visitor
travels back to their native region. Domestic tourism is basically an individual travelling within
the province (Carbone, 2017).
Main body
Contemporary Tourism is the concept that is considered as highly engaged by various
people in the developed regions of the world. The concept of contemporary management is
consistently increasing in the developing countries as well. Also, it is among the most
misunderstood concept around the globe. Contemporary tourism is referred as the most
significant mechanism that promotes economic development of a region. Tourism is referred
among the largest industries across the globe. Tourism is considered as an agent for the various
sociocultural, economic as well as the environmental change. Contemporary tourism is a concept
that focuses upon the current tourist who are interested in the emotional dimensions in terms of
travel along with exploring the opportunities in order to experience the real travelling. The
contemporary tourism revolves around the connection with the local community alongside
refusing the standardisation as well as commodifying the experience of the tourism.
Development of contemporary tourism is required to enhance growth and maintenance of the
tourism industry in a locality. The tourism industry has witnessed huge expansion in the last 50
years. The reason behind the expansion and development of contemporary tourism is that people
have shown more interest in the longer vacations. Thus, people are travelling from one
destination to another and that has been one among the various reasons for development of
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contemporary tourism. Various other reasons that have led to the development of contemporary
tourism are increase in the level of income, introduction of the various holiday pays in the
organisation, development of infrastructure as well as transportation facilities. The growth of
contemporary tourism has led to a positive impact over the income level as well as development
of the various countries thus, this is the reason behind flourishing contemporary tourism industry
(Cheung and Li, 2019).
Tourism sector has its various positive as well as negative impacts. The positive impacts
of tourism have been discussed in the section, first. The positive impact of tourism is that it has
led to creation of jobs in the economy which is a very important factor. Further, as the tourism
helps in creation of the job opportunities it also leads to more amount of money in the economy.
This leads to better purchasing power of the customers. Tourism has helped in keeping the local
traditions as well as customs alive in the economy or across the various regions of the globe. The
reason behind the sustainability of customs and traditions is that the tourists that visit the
countries tend to enjoy the traditional shows of the region. Also, tourism helps in generating the
revenues for a specific region that can be further utilised in order to protect the nature or the
surroundings of the region. There are various facilities that are introduced in the region or the
locality that tend to benefit the local people of the region as well. Tourism also leads to increase
in the demand of the indigenous crafts as well as food. Coming on to the negative impact of
tourism, It can be considered that tourism creates job opportunities, but the jobs tend to be
seasonal and hence leads to the issue of seasonal unemployment in the region. Another negative
impact of tourism is that the money generated from the tourism sector tends to get transferred to
the big organisations rather than the locals. The culture and the traditions of a place is likely to
change when the visitors arrive at a specific place. Tourism can lead to overcrowding at the place
as well as lead to traffic jams. Another, negative impact of tourism is that the prices of the
indigenous products at the local shops of the local vendors tend to increase as the tourists are
considered wealthier than the local population (Heslinga, Groote and Vanclay, 2018).
Talking specifically about the environmental impact, tourism has various positive
environmental as well as negative environmental impact. The positive environmental impact of
tourism includes that the motive of the region is to attract tourists at the place and hence the
focus is laid upon the beautification of the region that tends to make the place attractive. The
beautification is mostly done through planting trees and plants that has a positive contribution
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towards the sustainability of nature. Further, in order to attract tourism, various infrastructural
development are introduced such as sanitation, drinking water, shades, etc. This may improve the
hygiene conditions in the areas which is a great move towards sustainability of the nature.
Coming on to the negative impacts of tourism, it is quite certain that when development takes
place, there is an interference with the natural elements in the locality. Hence there is a
probability that it can harm the flora and fauna of the region. Due to bulk visitors, there is a risk
that the problems in context of waste disposal may arise that will have a negative impact over
the environment. Further, more population will lead to higher amount of air and sound
population due to the transportation facilities in the region and it may disturb the ecological
balance of the region (Jovicic, 2019).
Considering the environmental impact, tourism has various positive socio-cultural as well
as negative socio-cultural impact. The positive socio-cultural impact of tourism is that it leads to
boost in the investment through huge tourism money as that money is used to preserve the local
heritage by developing the infrastructure of the area by developing the facilities for the local
individuals. This further leads to creation and enhancement of facilities in terms of education,
leisure, social events, etc. This leads to providing better lifestyle to the indigenous people. It has
facilitated interaction with the various visitors that lead to mixing and acquainting with the
various cultural backgrounds (Sohn And et.al., 2021). It helps in creation of a cosmopolitan
culture in the specific locality. Also, as the demand of better services is there in the locality, the
varied employment opportunities have also increased in the region and hence the need for
migration has decreased in the region. Coming on to the negative socio-cultural impact of
tourism, The increased population in the region may lead to traffic jams, Over crowding that
might not be easy for the locality to deal with the present infrastructure of the region. Also, the
problems of sanitation and proper hygiene might arise that could lead to spreading of diseases in
the region as well as community. Also, the outsiders may have an impact upon the local culture
of the region and thus it may lead to disturbance and unrest among the people of the area. Also,
there is a probability that the tourist may copy or demonstrate the indigenous work which may
lead to losses for the local economy. Another negative impact of tourism is that various
fraudulent or criminal practices may take place that can harm the integrity of the local people as
well as the tourist (Kim, Wang and Song, 2021).
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Conclusion
It can be concluded that it is very important for an individual to understand the concept of
tourism. Tourism is referred to the activities of people that travel and stay at a specific place that
is usually outside the regular environment of a particular individual. Tourism is considered as a
dynamic as well as a competitive industry. The report has discussed the concept of contemporary
tourism. Contemporary Tourism is the concept that is considered as highly engaged by various
people in the developed regions of the world. Also, the various positive as well as negative
impacts of tourism have been discussed in terms of economic, environmental as well as psycho
graphic factors.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Heslinga, J., Groote, P. and Vanclay, F., 2018. Understanding the historical institutional context
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