UK Travel and Tourism: Analyzing Historical Developments & Impacts

This assignment provides a comprehensive analysis of the travel and tourism sector, examining key historical developments, the structure of tourism in London, and the roles of various tourism organizations. It also evaluates the impact of the UK's Tourism Action Plan and the effects of political changes in Cuba and Tibet on their respective tourism industries. The report covers socio-economic factors, technological advancements, product development, and changing consumer needs. It further discusses the functions of organizations like London & Partners, CTH, and the UNWTO. The analysis includes the positive influences of the Tourism Action Plan on jobs, skills, regulations, transport, and visitor experience in the UK. Finally, it explores the implications of political issues in Cuba and Tibet on their tourism sectors, highlighting reduced foreign investment and decreased tourism growth. Desklib offers a wide range of solved assignments and study resources for students.

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Every week you are expected to complete the task given to you in class
FINAL SUBMISSION: Submit tasks 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8
The total minimum of words: 2250
Total maximum of words: 2750
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Purpose of this assignment
This assignment has the purpose of enabling learners to develop their knowledge and understanding, in
relation to the travel and tourism sector in the United Kingdom and the rest of the world. The learners
need to have a global view of the sector’s activities and importance in the economy.
Scenario
You are required to provide a portfolio at the end of this term with evidence of answering all the
questions in the following tasks:
TASK 1 (LO1 AC 1.1)
Choose four key historical development of the Travel and Tourism sector and fill in the table
below.
Hint: expand the table to add sufficient information. Provide examples to illustrate your statements.
Min. word count: 250 words
Key developments What was the development
about? Give details and
dates/periods.
What role did it play in the
Travel and Tourism sector?
1. Socio-economic Increased the number of car
ownership.
Increases in the time of leisure.
Increases the disposable
The role of the socio-economic
is that increases the disposable
income of the people, it gives
the employment to the people
who can’t go outside for the
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income(Szopiński, and
Staniewski, 2016).
It impacts on the economy of
the nation.
work.
2. Technological It develops the technology of
the transport and also the
infrastructures like high-speed
trains, tunnels, and channel
tunnel.
Increased the security
features(Moutinho, and
Vargas-Sanchez, 2018)
Development of the website
interfaces.
Biometric passports.
Service for the customers.
Live information about the
flights and trains.
It helps in booking the air
tickets:
97% of the air booking is done
online, it has the maximum
computerization in the travel
industry, and technology helps
in generating the higher
occupancy rates.
Booking of railways:
The booking of the railway
tickets was launched before
some years ago only, IRCTC is
the organisation which
provides the online reservation
facility for booking the tickets,
and most of the cargo and the
railway booking are done
online.
Car rental:
Computerization of the car
rental industry is in the nascent
stage, the organisation like
Uber and Ola are filling up the
gaps, the saber and the
Amadeus are the major car
rental is the information
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provider in all over the world.
3. Product development and
innovation
It developed the packages of
the holiday.
It increased and also improved
the scale of the sales.
There are varieties of the
products and the destination
too.
It also improved the business
class travel.
The ranges of the broader from
the tour operators are available.
More varieties of products are
available and the services are
improved.
It has increased the more laces
for visiting and also the
infrastructure of the
destination.
It has increased the sales f the
business which increases the
profit and revenue of the
company and also of the
economy.
4. Changing the needs of the
consumers and the expectation
Nowadays the customers
become more demanding, they
want the satisfaction and want
their need to be fulfilled; now
the customers are having more
knowledge and they do the
study about the destination
where they want to travel.
The help of this factor in the
travel and tourism is that it
tailoring up the products.
The development of holiday
package of secondary and other
types also.
It provides the information to
the customers about each and
everything.
It also provides the virtual
travel.
Media uses booking, marketing
systems by using different
devices and the live chats with
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the tourism agent.
TASK 2(LO1 AC 1.2)
1.1 Select a destination of your choice and provide a poster of its Travel and Tourism structure.
( you should add all the sectors and sub-sectors that are part of the Travel and Tourism
structure)
Hint: You are advised to draw a chart or mind map for the poster.
1.2 Explain the status of at least 3 main components of that structure (sector and
sub-sector/businesses or producers/organisation etc. mentioned in the poster)
Format: Poster and explanation as paragraphs below it.
Word count: min 150 words for the explanation – The poster has no word limit.
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London is the leading tourist destination in the world, this city has many famous tourist attraction. This
is the city which attracts 19.1 million of the international tourist in 2017. Many of the people visit
London every year. There are many museums and also the art galleries, in which the majority which is
free to enter. The most popular museums in London are the Science Museum, the British Museum, the
Victoria and the Albert Museum and many more. The Museums were opened back in 1852 for the
local public and for the tourist. It contains the permanent collection of more than the four million
objects. The next attraction spot is the Tower of London where the tourist flock to admire the
impressive Crown Jewels of England.
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TASK 3 (LO2 AC 2.1)
1. You are required to name one Tourism organization for each of the three types of organisations
mentioned below.
A. UK Government department:
B. UK Government sponsored body/ organization:
C. International agency:
2. Explain the role of each selected organisation in detail and highlight the main differences
between them.
Hint: It is recommended that you do some research to find out some actual organisations.
Word count: min 200 words
1. The organization of tourism for:
UK government department- London and Partners
UK government-sponsored organization- CTH
International agency: world tourism organisation
2. (a)London and partners: this is the London’s international promotional company, the roles are:
The company secured the position in London as the most popular visitor’s destination (Heinelt, et. Al.,
2018).
It attracted the investment and spent £1.2 billionwhich created and secured more than 38000 jobs in
London.
(b)CTH: Confederation of Tourism & Hospitality, the main mission of the industry is to provide the
highest level of standard in the tourism, hospitality. CTH achieve the target as it robust monitor
supported by the industry.
(c) World tourism organisation: UNWTO is the agency of the United Nations which is responsible for
promoting the sustainable and the universally accessible tourism (Mowforth, and Munt, 2015). This is
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the international organisation which promotes the tourism as the driver of the growth of the economy.
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TASK 4 (LO2 AC 2.2)
You are required to read the Tourism Action Plan (August 2016) given to you and explain how
this could or will positively influence the country’s Travel and Tourism sector.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tourism-action-planClick on this link to be
redirected.
Read through the Action Plan to explain the positive influences on the Country’s Travel and
Tourism sector.
Word count: min150 words
The action plan for the travel and tourism are:
1. Jobs and skills: the employment in the tourism is growing fastly; government is working to improve
the perceptions of the tourism industry (Stacey, 2015). The tourism sector is comprised of the small
business which provides the employment to the rural communities.
2. Common sense regulation- there are four areas where of the regulation where the progress can be
done flourish the tourism sector.
(i) The tourism industry will seek to deregulate the element of the Private Hire Vehicle's licence so
that the owners of the hotels are allowed to collect the visitors from the ports or the stations.
(ii)They are going to introduce the new, notice of the light-touch which allow the small quantities of
alcohol sold to small accommodation provider for the guest, it allows to enhance the welcome to the
small accommodation provide to their guest.
(iii)The business will look how they can digitise and modernize the schemes of the retail exports to
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