A Study of Contemporary Issues Influencing Global Tourism Sector

This essay reviews various articles to identify contemporary issues influencing tourism globally, focusing on climate change, security-related issues, and currency fluctuation. Climate change impacts tourism through altered climatic circumstances, affecting tourist destinations and investment decisions. Security concerns, heightened by terrorist acts and natural disasters, significantly undermine the tourism business, making safety a key issue for travelers. Currency fluctuation affects tourist spending and destination choices, impacting the travel industry in various countries. The essay concludes that these issues negatively affect global tourism and could lead to economic decline in various countries. Desklib offers a platform for students to access similar essays and study resources.

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Table of Contents
Slide 1 Introduction...............................................................................................................................2
Climate change..................................................................................................................................2
Security-related issues.......................................................................................................................4
currency fluctuation..........................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................6
References.............................................................................................................................................7

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Slide 1 Introduction
Tourism has revealed to be a support in most global economies. It is the single service area
which has established as the economic activity and helping the underdeveloped or developing
nations to grow (Boniface, Cooper, and Cooper, 2016). In this particular assignment, various
articles will be reviewed to identify contemporary issues influencing tourism globally.
Slide 2 Three contemporary issues influencing tourism globally
Climate change
With the growth in industrialization, traveling and tourism have improved extremely. With its
near association with climate and the atmosphere, Tourism in climate-sensitive areas just like
other areas such as transport, agriculture, insurance, destination, and energy. With the
constant alteration in the climatically circumstances of the globe, the tourist endpoints are
also changed to meet the estimated standards (Weatherdon, et al., 2016).
Slide 3 climate issues cont…..
This has elevated alarm to the tourism investors to alter and start working adoption to
encounter the tourist needs. The Climate variation has converted as one of the most powerful
factors in the decision-making. This is because the change in climate is not any longer a
future incident but a day today incidence (Hoogendoorn, and Fitchett, 2018)).
Slide 4 climate issues cont…..
Tourism is not only the contributor to the economy of a country but also helps to share the
unknown cultures of different countries and provide chances to meet people from different
parts of the world. Most of the tourists are very unlikely to visit the places with adverse

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environmental conditions. So this might be the big issues for the developing nation with
climate issues to attract the tourists (Hall et al., 2015).
Slide 5 climate issues cont…..
Tourism sector cannot deal with this issue in isolation. They should get a hand from the wide
and inside the context of the global sustainable growth agenda. There are some favorable
effects of global warming that might attract the tourists, such as lengthier beach seasons and
the growth of rural and coastal tourism.
Slide 6 climate issues cont…..
The negative effects outweigh these benefits:
The rise of sea levels –
This will ultimately submerge minor islands and seaside regions. Areas depending on the
tourism for the living are under danger.
Desertification and the insufficiency of water –
This might leads to making areas less welcoming for both local groups and tourists.
Slide 7 climate issues cont…..
Deforestation and the damage to biodiversity –
This is impacting both the biome and directly decreasing the worldwide carbon sink, while
also decreasing demand for these destinations.
Melting of snow and glaciers –

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One of the reasons behind increasing levels of the sea, and also disturbing mountains and ski
resorts, causing the change of destination demands, which is depending on the most beautiful
or most attractive climate conditions (Higham, et al., 2016).
Slide 8
Security related issues
Safety and security have continuously been a crucial situation for travel and tourism.
However, it is an undeniable fact that protection and security problems gained a much higher
focus in the last two decades in travel. Alterations in the World throughout the last two
decades were huge.
Slide 9 security related issues Cont…
Due to terrorist acts, natural disasters, local wars, epidemics, and pandemics, that we were
observers to, security has considerably decreased. The travel and tourism business could not
elude the negative influences and concerns of these events (Ghaderi, Saboori, and Khoshkam,
2017)
Slide 10 security related issues Cont…
Over the earlier years, the tourism business has been extremely undermined by the rising
absence of safety and security. This issue has been recognized as one of the main forces
causing alterations in the travel and tourism sector in the novel millennium. Crime, violence,
terrorism, health issues, food safety, and natural calamities are the leading areas of concern
(Mostafanezhad, et al., 2016).
Slide 11 security related issues Cont…

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Though, these problems only started to achieve extra visibility later the September 11th
events. Terrorist attacks happened in other areas of the globe and they are forcing the travel
business to fight with a leading travel paradigm change, which is directly based on the point
that tourism safety is currently a key issue for travelers.
Slide 12 security related issues Cont…
It is now broadly believed by the global community that the victory of the travel industry in a
specific country or area is directly connected to its capability to offer travelers a safe and
enjoyable visit. Protection and security problems create an unfriendly environment of the
outing destination. An individual generally tries to escape from the unfriendly or unpleasant
environment at home may not pursue having long weekends at an unpleasant holiday
atmosphere (Tanford, and Montgomery, 2015).
Slide 13
Currency fluctuation
Tourists to foreign nations have to change funds to that specific country's money so they can
use money at guesthouses, cafeterias, and other fascinations. When the U.S. dollar rises
against major global currencies, U.S. travelers traveling to other nations will be capable to
enjoy more the conversation rate will help them when they convert their dollars (Vellas,
2016).
Slide 14 currency fluctuation Cont…
It is more probably to notice more industry as explorers take benefit of the robust dollar to
visit numerous places for marine, sand and sun, and a host of additional interesting
attractions. On the other hand, the reduced numbers of overseas visitors to the nation can be
observed.

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Slide 15 currency fluctuation Cont…
For example; the travel industry in Australia has been confronted by the increasing worth of
the Australian dollar and this resulted in, the business is facing a wide insufficiency in the
travel trade. One of the possible causes is a decrease in tourism export (inbound tourism)
(Tsui, and Balli, 2017).
Slide 16 currency fluctuation Cont…
Another study conducted by Peace, Izuchukwu, and Shehu, (2016) revealed that in Nigeria,
the conversation rate fluctuation has certainly a significantly adverse effect on tourism area
output. Increased variation reduces the influence of the travel sector to GDP, suggesting that
potential traveler, as well as trip operators, are frequently been exaggerated by the choice of
tourism destinations or place by the great value of conversation rate than by other issues.
Slide 17
Conclusion
After reviewing and reading various articles on the impacts of Security, currency fluctuation
and climate change related issues it can conclude that these issues are the global issues that
affecting tourism negatively. The global tourism has been widely affected as the tourists do
not want to travel the unpleasant places. These issues can be a great threat in the future and
may lead to a decline in the economy of various countries.

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