Global Destinations Tourism Report: Growth, Trends, and Challenges

This report provides a comprehensive overview of global tourism, encompassing its nature, trends, and the characteristics of key tourist-generating regions. It delves into the reasons behind the growth of major tourism areas worldwide, examines emerging destinations and their life cycles, and explores the roles and responsibilities of international organizations in tourism development. The report also addresses the threats, issues, and challenges facing the future of global tourism, offering insights into the industry's dynamics and future prospects. The analysis includes statistical data on tourist arrivals, expenditure, and market share for various countries, along with discussions on factors driving growth and strategies employed by emerging destinations. The report covers topics such as the impact of economic factors, technological advancements, and cultural aspects on tourism.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P1 Overview of Nature and Trend of Tourism:...........................................................................1
P 2 Characteristics of key tourist generation:..............................................................................3
LO2..................................................................................................................................................4
P3 Reasons for the growth of key global tourism generating and receiving areas of the world. 4
P4 Emerging Global Tourism Destination and Stages of Destination Life Cycle.......................5
LO3..................................................................................................................................................6
P5 Roles and Responsibilities of key International Organization in development of Global
Tourism .......................................................................................................................................6
LO4..................................................................................................................................................7
P6 Threats, Issues and Challenges of future development of global tourism..............................7
CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCS...................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Global tourism is all about having fun, pleasure and business across the world. It attracts
many tourist and people who are visiting various places. It is very much helpful for a person to
explore and make their business by meeting new people and exploring the world. Basically
global tourism can be defined as exploring with tourism spots like heritage, honey spot, MICE (it
is business purpose tourism), Medical and health development tourism, Film induced tourism
etc. All these tourisms comes under the global tourism because a person has to move or visit
different locations for different purposes.
This study includes the nature and trends of tourism, characteristics of key tourism
generation, reasons for the growth of global tourism, emerging global tourism and destination
life cycle, roles and responsibilities of international tourism development,challenges for future
development.
Overview of Nature and Trend of Tourism:
This statical research shows the flow of number of tourists who visits in the United
Kingdom. Almost 37.9 million visitors visited (inbound)UK, in recent years which adds up the
revenue generated by the tourists. This flow of tourists in the country has increased the revenue
generation of the company. There was a decline of the visitors in year 2017. decrease was 1% as
of 2016. rising trend and the increase with the trend of tourism the growth of the tourism has
increased with the rapid expansion of the tourism across UK(Battour and et.al., 2016). The ratio
of inbound visitors increased with 205% and the outbound rate has gradually decreased with -
310%. the financial crisis in year 2008/09 has decreased the expansion rate of the marketing and
tourism industry, which affected the growth of tourism industry. With the survey took over,
studies has proved that some have visited as a tourists 37.9 million visited UK as a tourists. 11.8
Million were part of the visit friends and family. 8.2 million were a part of business tours and 2.6
million were part of other activities which gradually changed the tourism scenario of the
UK(Boes, Buhalis and Inversini, 2015).
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Illustration 1: world top ten tourist destinations
(Source: Why China will soon be the world's top destination for tourists, 2019)
From the recent study, tourism expenditure by the tourist was around £23 billion. Which
marked as a fall with respect to previous years. This is due to the recent change in trend which
has affected the revenue generation over the recent years. As the trends or the shift in the mindset
of the tourists have shifted towards beaches and various other destinations. There are many
visitors from different countries which have been there due to various reasons. The graph shows
the number of visitors from various countries which came to UK, USA, France, Germany and
Ireland for travelling(Brondoni, 2016).
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The growth of economy as of the tourists which grew by 4%over the period of year 2017-
18. the industries which lie under tourism sector has grown considerably. A rapid increase in the
market which has changed overview of the scenario of the tourism growth and exchange of
culture. The consumption industry produced an outcome of £23 billion. Travel companies have
gained around £11 billion, food & beverage and accommodation contributed around £10 billion.
This has generated the employment opportunities for various locals which has increased the
employment rate and provide a benefit to the organization(Christian, 2016). Various sectors
generated the employment opportunities for various sectors of the industry. This has boosted up
the employment generation rate in UK. Market share has increased with the rise in the tourism in
UK which helped many of the locals and the government in the revenue generation. As a direct
employment of the workers employment services have changed the employment ratio within
various tourism sectors. Employment has increased the working culture of UK,, USA, France,
Germany and Ireland, which provided employment opportunities for various young enthusiast
which are in search of the employment opportunities.
Arrival of Tourist: 40 million tourist arrive the travel and tourism destination in United
Kingdom. Arrival of tourist has been increased to 4120 thousand in August from 3960 to July
2019. It has been increased in this quarter.
Expenditure: It has been analysed that approximately 22.9 Billion British pounds are been spent
in year 2018. Also it has been estimated that the expenditure will be increased to 24.9 Billion in
year 2019.
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Market share for national and international tourism: United Kingdom has accounted for
3.7% of international tourism. It was being analysed that 37.9 million tourist visited United
Kingdom. United Kingdom witnessed decline in number of tourism during the year 2018.
Various stastical data for key tourist generation of different countries
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llustration 2: Tourist Growth Rate, China
(Source: China Tourism, 2019)
with the rapid expansion in tourism there is a growth in the tourist generation in recent
years as there is a growth of many tourism sectors which is focused by the government of the
china.
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Illustration 3: International Tourism in France
(Source: Spending of international tourists in France from 2012 to 2028, 2019)
With the rapid expansion of the globalization and change in trends of the travelling
behaviour of people there is a rapid expansion of tourism. There are many which gives rise to the
tourism in France. With the natural beauty many of the people are attracted towards the France.
Illustration 4: Brazil Tourist Arrivals
(Source: Brazil Tourist Arrivals, 2019)
The global tourism statics according to the recent survey states that the total contribution carried
out which adds up to global economy came out to be 8.81 trillion US $. which has substantially
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increased as of 2016 which was around 7.6 trillion US $. this income generates defines the
worldwide graphs which includes that global data generation. The number of travellers who
travelled worldwide came to be approximately 1323 million travellers who travelled in various
parts of the world. The number of European tourist arrival was 710 million travellers.
Illustration 5: Tourist Arrivals in Mauritius
(Source: Tourist Arrivals in Mauritius, 2019)
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With the development of the country and the development carried out by the government which
can be used to evaluate the key tourism generation which has substantially increased at
Mauritius. There is a rapid growth of the tourism at mauritius.
Characteristics of key tourist generation:
UK has a wide ancient history which reflects the Royalty and varied diverse culture
which attracts the tourists across the globe which facilitates the tourists to know about the royalty
and the culture of UK. As London is the fashion capital of the world many of the tourists are
attracted due to the fashion industry. This has increased the number of tourist generation in the
UK. These features attracts the customers of various counties to know about the diverse culture
and varied sectors which increases the tourism in UK, USA, France, Germany and Ireland.
Leisure is one of the main reasons for the tourism in UK, USA, France, Germany and Ireland as
many of the facilities which are available in UK attracts the tourists(Garau-Vadell and et.al.,
2018).
Demographic-Demographic is one of the reasons which attracts various tourists worldwide
which increases the tourist. As the lifestyle of the tourists changes, UK, USA, France, Germany
and Ireland is the most popular in lifestyle, emerging trends are generated from London which is
one of the biggest fashion capital worldwide. Lifestyle of UK, USA, France, Germany and
Ireland which is dependent on royalty and Royal living. UK, USA, France, Germany and Ireland
has varied diverse culture which attracts many of the customers. UK, USA, France, Germany and
Ireland have a literacy rate of 99% which attracts many of the students across the world for their
research studies. Lifestyle of UK, USA, France, Germany and Ireland attracts many of the people
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around the globe. Tourist shopping has attracted the growth and expansion of economy of
Europe.
Economic- UK has a literacy level of 99% which has rapid expansion of job opportunities
which works for the youth of UK. Easy job is provided to youngsters which is the main reason
people migrate towards UK in search of job and business opportunities. Place of religious beliefs
are always flooded with tourists which boosts up the economy of the country. Technological
advancement has boosted the economy through tourism with various aspects like lag time is
reduced to zero which gives many customers a good response. Use of internet has boosted the
economy as in it gives a secure channel to tourist from frauds which increases the trust of the
tourists. As the exchange rates are high it adds up the value to the market of the UK many trace
practices are easier with the increase in economy(Gil-Alana and Huijbens, 2018).
Research Importance- Many of the young tourists visits UK, USA, France, Germany and Ireland
for the purpose of researches about the ancient history which can be a topic of researches which
is carried out in order to evaluate the research methodology.
Reasons for the growth of key global tourism generating and receiving areas of the world.
Talc Model: Tourism is one of the biggest industries in the world. It is a very dynamic
industry and changing constantly. Tourist attractions are often fragile and therefore require
careful management. It can be applied two emerging destinations, which is India and Nepal.
Exploration: In this stage only few number of people visit the emerging destination like
India and Nepal. In this travellers are not interested in exploring the various places which
Involvement: This can be termed as the stage where the number of travellers visiting the
emerging destinations like India and Nepal are being increasing. In this the destinations have
increased their quality related to food and accommodation.
Development: Development is a stage where the area becomes widely recognised as a
tourist attraction, partly because of heavy advertising and promotional efforts.
Consolidation: It is the stage where number of travellers are being higher than the
residents. In this stage the income of emerging destination also increases.
Rejuvenation: In this the emerging destination such as India and Nepal needs to build up
more new tourist places so that more number of travellers can be attracted towards them.
Factors driving growth of specific destination
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Accommodation service: If emerging destination like India and Nepal is being engaged in
giving high quality accommodation service then this will lead to growth in these type of
destination.
Attractive places: They also need to make travellers explore with more attractive places so that
they are being able to grow.
Strategies employed by emerging destinations
Various techniques can be used by India and Nepal like for example they can engage in
providing with high class and quality accommodation services. They can also provide them with
better attractive places.
There are many reasons for a global tourism to make tourism possible to each and every part
of the world. They do because they have stimulated the GDP growth for our country. The
tourism sector has the worth of 7.6 trillion dollars for travel and tourism account with 10% of
GDP growth rate which represents 7% of international trade and 30% of world export service. It
also helps in increasing the international trade. Worth of 1.2 trillion dollars has been earned from
the exports made in foreign countries. The international investment has been boosted because of
global tourism. It has became the second fastest growing industry in the terms of foreign direct
investment (FDI). The global tourism has also helped in developing the infrastructure for the
country. Many water supplies, airports, roads, energies and medical services facilities are
improved because of global tourism. It also supports the low income economy in various ways.
In year 2015, the world's 48 lower income and lower middle income countries have arrival of 29
million international tourist and earns 21 billion from international tourism(Gössling and Peeters,
2015).
The jobs are created in very effective way because of global tourism. It supports 292 million
jobs in years 2016 and it owns the 2nd position in providing employment to the people. It also
promotes the inclusive growth and it is labour intensive and have an approach to reach and
provides various kinds of benefits to its employees. These benefits are provided because of the
supply chain of global tourism sector. This sector have a very strong and trusted supply chain
management system which have all the connections and provides profits and benefits to the
organization. The major role played by the global tourism is that it strengthens the rural
communities in many ways. It always diversifies the rural economies and provides them with
their rural values and employment(Gowreesunkar and et.al.,2018). It helps a lot in providing jobs
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