Contemporary Travel and Tourism Industry: Elements and Development

This report provides an analysis of the contemporary travel and tourism industry, focusing on the interrelationship between its different elements, such as natural attractions, transportation, and accommodation, and the impact of any weaknesses in these elements on the tourist experience. It examines the role of each element in enhancing tourist experiences and explores key milestones in the development of the tourism industry, including both domestic and international tourism trends. The report highlights the importance of the '4 A's of tourism'—Attractions, Accessibility, Accommodation, and Amenities—in creating better experiences for tourists, emphasizing how each element contributes to the overall growth and success of the tourism sector. The analysis includes references to academic sources, providing a comprehensive overview of the factors influencing the tourism industry and its ongoing evolution.

The Contemporary
Travel and Tourism
Industry

Table of Contents
ACTIVITY 1....................................................................................................................................3
Interrelationship between different element of tours and tourism industry and impact on
tourist from weakness in any element.........................................................................................3
Role of each element in tourism industry and this element interacts to provide better
experience to tourist....................................................................................................................3
Key milestones in development of tourism industry and analyzation of the different sectors
in this industry.............................................................................................................................4
key elements of the tourism and how they related to create better experience for the tourist....4
REFERANCES................................................................................................................................6

ACTIVITY 1
Interrelationship between different element of tours and tourism industry and impact on tourist
from weakness in any element
Relationship between elements of tourism
There are some elements of the tours and tourism which are interrelated top each other.
One of them is natural attractions which is made by the nature there is no participation to make
those places they are formed naturally and this places provide good experience to the tourist.
Transportation is the other element of this industry (Xiang, Magnini and Fesenmaier., 2015).
When tourist take any tour from the tourism industry then company also include transportation
and transportation expanses because transportation help tourist to drop in the right destination.
Company take transportation changes which they already include in the traveling plan. Hotels
also impotent element of the tourism company because when tourist reach to their destination
they have say those place for more than 1 or 2 days so company have to book accommodation to
the tourist and this charges also included in the pack.
Impact on tourist experience if there is any weakness in element
It can be huge impact on the tourist if there is any of the element have weakness. For
example – if during the tour, tourist do not get proper transportation, and they are taking time ,
then it can affect on the tourist experience and it can rune their holidays so it is impotent for the
tourism company to provide proper transportation services, so they can provide good experience
to the tourist, and They can gain customers loyalty.
Role of each element in tourism industry and this element interacts to provide better experience
to tourist
There are some components of the tour's and tourism industry which help to make better
experience to the tourist, and they can make their tour memorable. Here are some components -
Hotels
Hotels are the place where tourist stay and take rest during the tours. Tourism company
already book the hotel before they organize the tour (Tan And et.al., 2017). They already have
good relationship with those hotels, so they get huge discount, because of this they can also give
discount to their customers. This is impotent element for the tours and tourism and it is important
for the tourism company to make good relationship with hotels, so they can give better deals and
discount to the tourist.

Transportation
Transportation also play impotent role to provide good experience to the tourist. Tourism
company have to mange all the transportation of the tourist from their destination to the final
destination. They have to make proper plan of there transpiration . This element also help
tourist to make their experience better and memorable, so they should mange transportation
properly.
Key milestones in development of tourism industry and analyzation of the different sectors in
this industry
Tourism is the travel for the pleasure or any business purpose , also the theory and
practices of the touring. The business of the accommodation, attracting and entertaining tourist
and the business of the operating the tours (Boniface, Cooper and Cooper., 2016). This industry
is developing day by day and WTO has defined this industry more wildly in term beyond the
common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "traveling to
and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for
leisure and not less than 24 hours, business and other purposes. Tourism can be domestic and it
can be international, in the domestic tourism tourist visit the places within the country and
international, tourist go outside the country numbers of the tourism declined a strong result in
economy slowdown in the widdle half of the 2008 and in consequence of the outbreak of the
2009 but this recovers slowly. In 2005 this industry grow to up and make payment of more than
740 billion.
key elements of the tourism and how they related to create better experience for the tourist
There are 4 a's of the tourism which is impotent for the tourism industry and this elements help
them to make better experience for the tourist.
Attractions
Natural places which is made by nature is important element for this industry and most
of the people like to see natural beauty of the places. This help this industry to grow.
Accessibility
Transpiration is another element of the Tours an tourism industry to grow because
tourism company need transportation to pick the tourist from the one place to drop them to their
final destination.
Accommodation

Tourist need accommodation services because they stay in other places for 1 or 2 days
Amenities
Entertainment is impotent which can include, Drama , dance Etc.

REFERANCES
books and journal
Xiang, Z., Magnini, V. P. and Fesenmaier, D. R., 2015. Information technology and consumer
behavior in travel and tourism: Insights from travel planning using the internet. Journal
of Retailing and Consumer Services.22. pp.244-249.
Tan, S. H. And et.al., 2017. The impact of the dimensions of environmental performance on firm
performance in travel and tourism industry. Journal of environmental management.203.
pp.603-611.
Boniface, B., Cooper, R. and Cooper, C., 2016. Worldwide destinations: The geography of travel
and tourism. Routledge.