Travel & Tourism: Influence of Governments & International Agencies

This report examines the significant influence of local and national governments, as well as international agencies, on the travel and tourism sector, focusing on the TUI group as a leading example in the industry. It details the functions of various regulatory bodies in shaping the tourism landscape, including the role of governmental entities in fostering services and amenities for public interest and the support provided by national and regional trusts in raising funds and providing information to visitors. The report also highlights the impact of organizations like the UNWTO in promoting tourism destinations and encouraging national governments to develop tourist sites. Furthermore, it analyzes how local and national policies, including economic policies, affect the quality and stability of services in the tourism sector, referencing the UK government's tourism policies from 2010 to 2015 and their impact on promoting tourist destinations within the UK. The study also cites various research papers that helped in drawing a conclusion for the role of government in tourism sector.

Travel and Tourism sector
(Influence of local and national governments and international agencies)

Table of content
Topics Page number
Introduction 3
Functions of different regulatory in travel and tourism 4
Influences of local and national policy on travel and
tourism sector
6
References 8

Introduction
 Tourism is one’s one of the largest growing industry in world. It is also considered as
major source of foreign exchange earnings and employment opportunities for many
developing countries.
 This report is focused on TUI group which is the world’s leading company in tourism.
 This entity is offering a wider range of services to their customers in hotels, travel
agencies, airlines etc.

Functions of different regulatory in travel and tourism
 To expand this sector, government and other regulatory are playing significant role
because they are making many rules and regulations which has to be comply by
tourism companies on regular basis.
 The function of government is feasible where it can flourish the services which are
provided by tour operator.
 As they have to see that services or other amenities can be provided for public interest
so that investment of tourism can be increase.

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 Apart from that governmental sponsored bodies which includes national or regional
trust bodies are having major role which support to tourism in raising their funds from
visitors
 They are also providing precise information to visitors so that they can get little idea
about places.

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UNWTO: World Tourism Organization is working to spread tourism in the world,
mainly they are promoting new tourists sites for tourists. In the recent year, they have
announced China as emerging tourists destination which encourage tourists and as
well as to the national government to develop their tourists sites which can help to
them to convert flow of economy towards them.

Influences of local and national policy on travel and tourism sector
 The government of country are making modifications or alteration in rules and
regulation on regular basis regarding tourism companies so that they can serve best
quality of services to customers.
 The local and national policies are made in the context of both resident people and
visitors through which they can protect the rights of there.
 As economic policies are framed by government which is influencing economy in
both positive and negative way.

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 There is an influence of local and national economic policies which are farmed by
government.
 Influence of local policies; this need the consideration due to weak condition of
economic.
 But these policies help to recover the economic values which draws the impact on
products and services.
 It may also affect the variation in margins and stability of services in local
destination.

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Government policy: UK government is having policy regarding to the tourism,
2010 to 2015 government policy is having a huge impact on the tourists
destinations It is promoting tourists sites of UK e.g. London Eye Wagon Wheel
Ferris, British Museum, V&A Museum etc. it is supports to increase number of
outbound tourists in the country and increase the tourism in the UK.

References
 Assaker, G., Vinzi, V. E. and O’Connor, P., 2011. Examining the effect of novelty
seeking, satisfaction, and destination image on tourists’ return pattern: A two factor,
non-linear latent growth model. Tourism management. 32(4). pp.890-901.
 Chen, C. F., Lai, M. C. and Yeh, C. C., 2012. Forecasting tourism demand based on
empirical mode decomposition and neural network. Knowledge-Based Systems. 26.
pp.281-287.
 Hudson, S. and Thal, K., 2013. The impact of social media on the consumer decision
process: Implications for tourism marketing. Journal of Travel & Tourism
Marketing. 30(1-2). pp.156-160.

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