Comprehensive Report on the UK Travel and Tourism Sector (Coursework)

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the UK travel and tourism sector. It begins with an overview of the sector's history and development, followed by an examination of its current structure, including the roles of government bodies and international agencies. The report then delves into the economic policies influencing the success of tourism in Scotland, and the implications of political changes within the sector. Furthermore, it explores factors affecting tourism demand in Edinburgh and explains the supply-side effects. The analysis extends to the positive and negative economic, environmental, and social impacts of tourism, along with strategies to mitigate negative effects. The report concludes with an overall assessment of the sector, supported by references.

Travel and tourism sector
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
1.1) Explaining the history and development of tourism sector in the UK (P1.1)......................4
1.2) Structure of the travel and tourism sector in the UK (P1.2).................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
2.1) Analysing the function of Government sponsored bodies and international agencies (P2.1)
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2.2) Local and national economic policy influencing the success of travel and tourism in
Scotland (P2.2)............................................................................................................................8
2.3) Implication of political change in the travel and tourism sector of Scotland (P2.3)............9
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
3.1) Factors affecting the Tourism demand of Edinburg (P3.1)................................................10
3.2) Explaining the supply make the effects of demand in Edinburgh (P3.2)...........................12
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................14
4.1) Positive and negative economic, environmental and social impacts (P4.1).......................14
4.2) Strategies that canminimise the negative impacts (P4.2)...................................................16
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................18
References......................................................................................................................................19
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Introduction
The travel and tourism industry in the UK is ancient and is getting popular in the entire world.
Different people are travelling for various reasons to abroad which is improved the travel
agencies for their business which has to help me, customers, to plan their tour. This has helped
the industry to grow by leaps and bounce the contribution of the significant chunk in the national
economy of UK. The study has focused on supporting the tourism sector of Scotland which is
now one of the attractions for the visitor. The regulations and the policies played a significant
role in travel plus tourism sector which has influenced success and has promoted the places in
the UK. The study will focus on the structure of travel and tourism sector, functions of the local
which has influenced the success.
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TASK 1
1.1) Explaining the history and development of tourism sector in the UK (P1.1)
The travel and tourism industry is growing day by day. It is due to the Rapid change in the taste
of the humans and the behaviour of their expectation. The tourism sector was structured since
1945 and was not so much famous however in today state the tourism sector has well diversified
with different scenic beauty and luxurious things for humans. Since the beginning of growth of
tourism it included only travelling plus transportation of the goods. But now the tourism
comprises not only travelling but even the areas that are ancillary to comfort of the clients. The
tourism sector in the UK has majorly grown in the recent years (Spiller, 2014). The different
types of travel agencies have helped the people with the proper guide for travelling around the
world which has increased the customer satisfaction as well as the revenue of the place. The UK
has different places where people love to move around. The rules and regulations adopted by the
government have helped the places to attract many potential customers and improved the social
conditions, Technology, accommodation facilities and better services. The invention of
Technology has supported the new Modes of transport and increased the opportunities to travel.
Also along with the technical facility, the effect of Brexit has also helped different people to visit
the UK. The improvement in the road facility from London to Bath which is accounted for about
72 hours whereas 400 miles where accountant to Edinburg which completely took ten days but
now it has improved, and the changes of Technology has brought lowered down the distance rate
in the UK. The tourism has considered being the natural environment with new places and
staying in the luxurious hotels. In the UK the statistics for a day visit and night stays are
maintained separately. The tourism was introduced to different reasons, and one of them was the
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first Roman Emperor Augustus who had rid the Mediterranean of Pirates by making the
Travelling a safe part (Mowforth, and Munt, 2015). In UK London has become very popular
among the tourist destination, however, the potential of Scotland is growing. Edinburg is
attracting more visitors to visit the scenic beauty.
1.2) Structure of travel plus tourism sector in UK (P1.2)
The travel as well as tourism sector has different structures according to the places. The daily
changes in the technology have created several new concepts that have included to change the
structure in travel as well as tourism industry. The roles of the sectors like the organisations of
governments and transport, tour operators, accommodation, visitor attractions and travel agents
have increased the distribution channel through the world. Different factors have affected the
change of complete architecture in the travel and tourism industry which is very important in the
industry as well as at present. In the UK most of the cities have witnessed the industrial
revolution due to different rules and regulations adopted by the government (Moutinho, and
Vargas-Sanchez, 2018). This has affected the travel and tourism industry majority as the number
of outsides are getting transferred from different places to the UK for their business purpose. The
number of people visits in the UK has affected in the increase of popularity in the tourist
destination. A place like London is one of the essential parts in the UK. However, the
government is focusing on structuring Scotland so that the number of visitors can also travel
around b places of Scotland which can help in increasing the revenue. The department of digital,
culture, media and support has helped to advertise the activities in different parts of UK through
various channels in one over the world. The government has generated more than 2, 89,000 jobs
in the UK where Scotland has contributed around 8.5% of employment in the country. The
executive tourism strategy and the public sector are one of the great structured policy of the
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government which has helped the visitors to visit the places through some the agency. In the
recent times, the structure of the travel and tourism industry has consisted six things that are
transport, attractions, tourism development and tour operators (Giaoutzi, 2017). The holiday
packages provided through the different channel for different places in the UK has helped to
make a better marketing plan which will increase the tours, especially for Scotland.
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TASK 2
2.1) Analysing the function of Government sponsored bodies and international agencies
(P2.1)
The priority of the government is to increase the GDP of the country. The government is a single
authority in the country which has further fragmented into small councils for every region or
city. The world travel and tourism Council stalk natural sites that are considered being one of the
national ownership in the UK. It is vital to have a system with resources that can help in the
exploitation of the personal use in a non-threatening way. The government in the UK usually has
the ministry which is dedicated for being travel and tourism sector that looks after development
of industry in particular region. London has become very popular with high observation and
development now the government is focusing on developing Scotland as the maximum number
of industries and growing over there. The local and the regional authority has elaborated with the
government to promote the established sites in the UK through promotions, site-specific
marketing and marketing campaigns. It has helped in participating the International Exhibition to
portray the travelling strength and sections of the city. The government has also reflected only
bilateral trade contracts which have any Hamster tourism sector within different countries
through removing the trade barriers plus tariffs such as service taxes; transportation tax and
value-added tax etc. This has helped to increase the number of arrivals for the visitors as the
expenditure per person has decreased and thus shall be capable to spend more on the leisure time
and luxury escapes for themselves rather than paying for taxes.
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International Agencies in the UK has promoted their tourism products which have increased the
cultural mixing. Agencies such as United Nations, World Tourism Council, International air
transport Association etc. have supported each other for enhancing the business of the individual
countries.
2.2) National and local economic policy influencing success of tourism plus travel in
Scotland (P2.2)
The local plus national policy of economies in the UK has affected in travel plus tourism sector
in Scotland. The increased in the job by the government has helped to improve the inward
income of the investors as well as other humans by providing an environment conducive. This
has helped the investors to feel secure about their investments in Scotland. The economic
policies used by the government has affected positively as the government has involved in the
destination marketing of Scotland (Chapman, and Light, 016). The framework of tourism
development in Scotland has plans this system for delivering the visitor efficiently and has set a
target to promote the growth within 2020. The local and national economic policy has aligned
with the appropriate infrastructure and relevant investment strategies which have set out a future
aspiration and ambition for the stakeholders working in the tourism sector. This has provided a
range of opportunities by considering in the emerging and future Development Plan across
Scotland. The iconic destination has offered The dramatic and enjoyed your visit the experience
where the local and national policy has developed the distinctive culture and heritage. The
improvement in the towns and cities with opportunities offering to a range of sports and leisure
activities has also included success in the travel sector (León, and Araña, 2016). The government
has noticed that Scotland was facing issue with the sustainable economic growth thus took step
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Changers by promoting and delivery in the increase in investing better opportunities for different
kinds of jobs through all over the world.
The policy changes within tax structure such as hotels has also affected positively and
negatively. However, Scotland has succeeded in making the hotel business successful. The
economic policies like abandoning the value-added taxes in the hotels, high taxes to the tour
operators, making chief finance available for the hotel development and tourism sites has
significant ethical and adverse effects on entire society of Scotland.
Figure 1: Value of tourism in Scotland
(Source: León, and Araña, 2016)
2.3) Implication of the political change within the travel plus tourism sector of Scotland
(P2.3)
The reason law changes in Scotland have affected the tourism industry in the UK in both positive
and negative ways. The changes in the federal laws well publicised for regulating the travel
industry. The changes in the visa law have affected the travel and tourism industry (Grenier,
2017). Non-EU students of colleges and schools who are basically studying below the degree
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level courses shall currently work up till 20 hours in a week each day-time. However, the
numbers of working hours have cut in half under changes to the visa of the students announced
by home secretary in the UK. Besides when will be immigration policies in the UK has helped to
settle the partner in Scotland by finance, marriage or de facto partner visa. The immigration
policy has also rejected few applications of the customers which has hugely affected the
customer satisfaction by creating problems for the development of tourism sector.
According to the Britain health and safety executive the number of rules that it follows involve
tourism sector effectively. Accessing the risk in Scotland and taking the real race has engaged a
good growth in the work for employees like ventilation, lighting, stress, cleanliness and noise
which has helped a single employee to show liability compulsory certificate of insurance at the
workplace. The political leaders have promoted their ideas for IT sector in Scotland that has
abandoned the tax exemption, regulatory changes in Sourcing of raw materials that have
contributed in the cost of importing (Cheer, and Lew, 2017). Recently the Scottish tourism
Alliance has launched a new research project to understand the impact of rising price on the
tourism sector of Scotland. This has helped in providing greater clarity and will focus on the
national living wage, business rates, immigration and insurance premium levies and inflationary
cost. This is directly affecting the quality, authentic experience in Scotland.
TASK 3
3.1) Factors affecting the Tourism demand of Edinburg (P3.1)
The demographics of the tourist generates the demand in the travel industry makes that has
considered as a factor as political stability by maintaining a safety into the major concerns at the
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time of travelling. The factors such as changing work patterns of the tourists together with their
ability for avoiding holidays or the destinations has also played the role of generating and
reducing the demand. A level of the disposable income and interest rates such as hike in
travelling cost, currency exchange rate hence determine output in Edinburg. The personal income
and the discretionary income has concluded the indicators which have tended to enjoy catering in
demand.
The capital of Scotland Edinburg has been out the culture of innovation with life sciences,
informatics, data Science, Technology, financial services, renewable energy and law at the
combination for meetings, incentive, conference and event organisers (Vu et al. 2018). The
convention of Edinburg has 500 strong numbers of Ambassador programs that have set up over
20 years ago for promoting the city as the business tourism destination. The factors have changed
the requirements and have increased in the local convention by creating a legacy and ensuring
events sustainable.
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