Evaluating Current Trends Influencing Changes in Travel and Tourism

This essay provides an overview of the travel and tourism sector, highlighting the significant changes and continuous growth driven by increasing customer numbers. It identifies key trends influencing the sector, including ecotourism, which aims to reduce the environmental impact of tourism, and food tourism (culinary tourism), which focuses on unique eating and drinking experiences. The essay references various academic sources to support its analysis of these trends and their implications for travel and tourism organizations, emphasizing the importance of addressing challenges effectively to ensure sustainable business operations. Desklib offers a variety of resources to support students studying business development.

INTRODUCTION
Travel and tourism sector is that sector which has undergone with several
changes on a large scale. There are regular transformations taking
place which makes impact on the travel and tourism industry. This
sector is advancing and growing continuously as the number of
customers are growing day by day. The sector has been showing high
growth regarding profits, revenues, goods and services. But at the same
time it is facing many challenges and issues also which must be dealt
with effectiveness by the organisation which operates in this sector. All
these aspects make a large influence on the business operations of
travel and tour organisations

TASK 2

Evaluating current trends influencing
changes in travel and tourism sector

Ecotourism

Objectives of Ecotourism
The objective of this type of emerging tourism is to
reduce the implications of the beauties in the nature.
Increasing number of tourists are damaging for
tourist place in UK.

Food tourism

Continued...
Eating in different tourist spots is very common among
tourists. This is also named as culinary tourism
which is the pursuant of unique and unforgettable
eating and drinking experience.

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