Contemporary Tourism: Analyzing Economic, Environmental and Impacts

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary tourism, examining its various facets and impacts. It begins by defining contemporary tourism and highlighting its global significance, using London as an example of a popular tourist destination. The report then delves into the positive and negative economic impacts of tourism, such as job creation, preservation of local traditions, damage to the natural environment, and overcrowding. Similarly, it explores the environmental impacts, including ensuring water quality, protecting nature, overpopulation, and pollution. The report also discusses the social-cultural impacts, such as maintaining family relationships and commercialization of culture, alongside negative aspects like conflicts between societies and language barriers. The conclusion emphasizes the rapid growth of the travel and tourism industry and the importance of adhering to regulations and standards for optimal performance. Desklib provides access to similar reports and solved assignments for students.

Understanding the world
of tourism
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Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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INTRODUCTION
Tourism is defined as collection of various activities, industries and services that deliver
travel experience comprise of various accommodation, drinking, transportation, eating
establishment, shops, business of entertainment and other services. Travel and tourism is part of
hospitality services that is provided to people in effective and efficient manner. This sector is
growing day by day in order to fulfils requirements of tourists. It has also contributed in
development of economy of nations (Swarbrooke, and Horner, 2012). It is very important for
organisation to have good services of travel and tourism in effective and efficient manner.
Tourism industry provides different services in relation to travel that can help to maintain higher
performance. The areas of discussion are development of contemporary tourism, positive and
negative economic and environmental impacts of tourism, future impacts and others.
MAIN BODY
Contemporary Tourism
According (Gustafson, 2012), A global aspect that is used by people and group of
people for visiting different places is known as contemporary tourism. In whole world there are
different places of vising that used for the purpose of entertainment and improve economical
condition. This is important for each person to conduct environment analysis and provide
information about different visiting places.
For example, London is a beautiful city in UK where people visits to see different places and
feeling good. The visiting places of London are Buckingham palace, Tower Bridge, Westminster
Abbey, London eye and others used by people to visit and develop economy. Tourism occurs
from movement of millions of individuals that leads to development of numerous and
multifaceted activities, approaches that related to industry. This is important for travel and
tourism organization to gain knowledge about different places and select best place to visiting
appropriately. In changing environment travel and tourism sector have contributed widely in
economy of country by providing opportunity to visit different places and make feel good.
Contemporary tourism is very complex organization especially with changes in contemporary
tourist behaviour by using internet, changing tourism structure, and going across border for
spending vacations. UNWTO is larger industry in travel and tourism that understand the
requirement of their people and introduces different location as well as places to visit. This can
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help to develop the understanding and managing functions. British Airways is dealing with
travelling services that provided to people who lives in other country and wants to visit multiple
places in London. The organization is having tie up and good relations with hotel industry that
assisted to people to book hotel and increase their entertainment. The trip advisor is responsible
for all information that should be provided to people and helps to managing all functions.
Positive and negative impact of economic Tourism
Tourism is important component of global economy as it generates billions of dollars and
currency in revenue and millions of jobs around whole world. The government plays major role
in travel and tourism industry as provide subsidies to companies, provide approval of visiting
places, and reducing the tax rates that supports to develop country. The meaning of economic
tourism is to bring continuous development such as society, community interest, and sustainable
tourism that can help to increase performance. The aim behind using economic tourism is to
bring improvement in economic condition of country by offering different places to visit.
Positive impact
This creates employment – Having different places and location to visit in a country it
good advantages for country as it increases the employment rate by providing employment
opportunities to people which can help to improve economical condition to (Webster, and
Ivanov, 2014).
Keep alive local traditions – It has seen that people are interested to know customs and
traditions of other country. By travelling at other places, local traditions and customs are kept
alive as they enjoy a lot.
Protecting the natural landscape – Economical tourism is useful as it helps to protect
natural landscape by investing money that can help to increase productivity. The people should
have proper information about natural place where they are going to visit and affected
productivity positively.
Negative impact
Damage to natural environment – Due to having economic tourism in different country
natural environment being damaged such as footpath erosion, litter habitats destroyed to build
hotels.
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Overcrowding and traffic jams – Economic tourism impacts negatively as
overcrowding and traffic jams due to visitors arriving. The money goes to big companies that
creates issues in running travelling industry.
The prices of local shops increases – When tourists used to get products from local
shops then cost of products increases that impacts negatively (Xiang, Magnini, and Fesenmaier,
2015).
Positive and negative impact of environment Tourism
Environmental tourism defined as travel to destinations where flora, fauna, and cultural
heritage are the primary attractions. For whole world it is important to have focus over
environmental aspects and bring change in their perception which can help to maintain higher
performance. In other words, environment tourism is a form of tourism that involves responsible
travel to natural area, conserving the environment, and improving well-being of local people.
While operating a business there is need to have focus over environmental aspects that used to
develop understanding and bringing changes accordingly.
Positive impact
Ensuring high water quality – Travel and tourism is important aspects which is used by
travelling industries for the purpose of providing a new experience and learning to individuals.
To having different places of visiting in country impacts positive as it maintains high quality of
water that used by people who comes to visit.
Better protection of nature – It has been analysed that by using travelling and tourism
in countries or globally, nature could be protecting in better ways that develop the productivity.
This also helps to save the natural sources which supports to bring advantages and maintain
higher performance (Blanke, and Chiesa, 2013).
This creates sustainability – Environmental tourism is beneficial for global business
environment in relation to tourism as it helps to increase sustainability by providing fresh air and
new resources which used to improve performance.
Negative impact
Overpopulation – As environment is using by people that impact on physical
environment by increasing number of people and visitors in countries. This create the changes in
their demand and supply that directly affected country growth.
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Reduce oil and chemicals – In whole world, environment tourism affects tourism such
as it reduces oil and chemicals that creates issues growing country (Boniface, Cooper, and
Cooper, 2016).
Creating pollution – Environment tourism also affected country negatively as it
increases populations when people comes to visit other places and uses vehicles, creating
pollution for people and affects environment.
Positive and negative impacts of social-cultural impacts
In Global world there are different countries where people lives and belongs to different
culture and society that directly affects business industry. This is important for each individual to
understand changed culture and aspects that used to develop the performance. If there is change
in culture and values of society that directly affects tourism described below;
Positive impacts
Maintaining family relationship – Social-cultural changes can be effective for tourism
industry as it maintains good relations between family members and develop understanding by
visiting places.
Increasing moral conduct – By working collectively and visiting difference places
moral conduct regarding travel and tourism can be improving that can help to build performance.
Commercialisation of culture and art – With the help of society and their culture
tourism affected positively as sale of culture and art can be increase and improve the economic
growth (Capriello, and et. al., 2013).
Negative impacts
Leading conflicts between society - As visitors comes to visit country and location who
belong to different culture can create the conflicts due to thinking gaps (Énalan, and Soteriades,
2012).
Language barrier – This is another issues faced by tourist and advisor that affected
tourism negatively. As people use different language and culture to share their opinions that
directly affected their growth.
CONCLUSION
From above mentioned report, it has concluded that travel and tourism industry is the
fastest growing sector in market. There are different principles and tools which are used by
respective industry in order to maximize sales and revenues. The human resources strategy helps
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in hiring of skilled and capable staffs for better work performance of business. There are various
responsibilities which has to be carried by them to attain goal. In order to run hospitality sector,
various regulations, standards, legislation are to be followed by respective organisation so that
activities and work can be carried out in appropriate manner.
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