Analysis of the UK Tourism Industry: A Comprehensive Report

This report delves into the UK tourism industry, examining its historical development, key components, and the impact on the country's economy and society. The report begins with an introduction to the tourism industry, defining its scope and significance. It then explores the historical context of tourism, tracing its evolution from ancient times to the modern era. The core of the report analyzes the positive and negative impacts of tourism in the UK, considering both economic and social effects. The report further identifies the main components of the UK tourism industry, including accommodation, transport, and attractions, and explains their importance in the context of supply and demand. The report also provides an overview of VisitBritain. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the tourism industry's contribution to the UK's development and economic strength, and providing a list of references used.

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TOPIC- THE TOURISM INDUSTRY
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Table of content
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................3
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Development of tourism in historical context.................................................................................3
Positive and negative impact of UK tourism...................................................................................3
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................4
Main components of UK tourism....................................................................................................4
Explain the components importance in supply and demand of UK tourism...................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
Reference list...................................................................................................................................6
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Task 1
Introduction
The particular assignment details with the tourism industry of UK. Tourism can be done with
two motives such as pleasure or business purpose. The business deals with accommodating,
entertaining tourist and to organize tours. Tourism may be of various categories such as
international or within a country. The world tourism organisation defines tourism as travelling to
and staying in a space out of the common living environment. In today’s world tourism is a big
source of income for many countries, so government focus on the development of this particular
industry. Tourism management of various countries varies according to its geographical and
climate condition. These writing deals with a UK tourism company named as VisitBritain. This
is a British tourist authority board of Great Britain and was formed in 1969. It's a joint venture
company between British tourist authority and English tourism council.
Development of tourism in historical context
History says that from the beginning of the world human beings like to travel from one place to
another whether ancient humans, kings or the queens. In ancient china peoples sometimes visits
mount tai and five sacred mountains (Thomas, 2013, p.88). A book reveals that on the year 1787
a Japanese tourist consulting a tourist guide for a tour. The fundamental idea was that one could
mature and learn while travelling, experience the world and improve one's craft in order to grow
through a test and return as an accomplished man. In the middle ages, Christianity, Buddhism
and Islam all promote tours named as a pilgrimage, aim to improve health and religion.
Recreational and educational travel already existed in the classical world and even in Egypt. The
Islamic hajj and Chaucer’s Canterbury tales are related to tour in literature. The modern tour can
be also known as Grand tour, an entertainment tour around Europe. The tour culture flourished
from 1660 to early 1840s. Grand tour was mostly done by rich class people.
Positive and negative impact of UK tourism
Positive impact-
● Economic effect- UK tourism gave job to many unemployed people and gave
development to retails and transportation industry. It even gives business to small scale
industry.
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● Social effect- Society gets developed by improvement of infrastructure. Tourism
encourages traditional customs, handicrafts and festivals (Medlik, 2016, p.110). Local
communities would be unable to provide such resources. Various tactics are applied in
such privileged places of tourist interest.
● Environmental effects- sometimes tourism help to promote conservation of wildlife and
natural resources. Tourism helps for the funding of maintaining animals and parks.
Negative impact-
● Economic effect- a tourism generally develop roads, hotels but this falls under
government and thus this reduces the economic strength of the government (Nakashima
and Calvente, 2016, p.20).
● Social effect- sometimes visitor behaviour affect the lifestyle of the host, for eg crime,
alcohol and drugs problem arise in the society of the host.
● Environmental effects- turism sometime degrade the natural environment such as wastage
of water, increase noise pollution and traffic emissions.
Task 2
Main components of UK tourism
The main components of tourism industry include accommodation, transport and attractions.
Along with these three components, Travel agents and tour operators make are the most vital part
components of tourism industry of any country, because the tourism services and ancillary
services are only available from the travel agents and tour operators (Roberts, 2014, p.12). In
addition to these, trade associations and other regulatory bodies are also considered to be the part
of tourism industry, contributing to the context of components of UK tourism, it can be stated
that above-mentioned components well fits in tourism of every country. However, additionally,
for UK tourism, tourism development and promotions becomes important part. The tourism
industry in UK and Government of UK with combined effort focuses on the development of the
industry because according to the research apart from the Middle East and Schengen area in
Europe, UK is the most desired destination for travel and tourism.
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Explain the components importance in supply and demand of UK tourism
There are various components in UK tourism; some are accommodation, attraction, travel agents
or transport. Supply and demand are something where more supply will have fewer prices and
more demand will have a high price. All these components are interrelated with each other. Such
as when demand for accommodation raises it result in the hike in the cost of accommodation
(Horner and Swarbrooke, 2016, p.220). When more attraction place are developed in the UK will
result from more tourist and thus more income and rise in the cost of a tour. More travel agents
will result in high competition among them and thus result in the reduction of tour cost and then
demand tour rise. Lastly, transport price rises when demand for tour rise along with the rise in
demand for transport. People with more wealth demand more for tour and thus cost of tour
increase. More travel agents then lower the price due to tough competition.
Conclusion
As the UK have many attractive places so they attract more tourists and thus the cost of a tour for
UK rises as well as the demand. UK tourism contributes a lot to the development of their country
and builds a strong economic strength. In 2005 UK is been voted as the world's leading tourist
destination. Visit Britain is the founding partner of ENAT and its future aim is to become the
world's leading tourist destination
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Reference list
Horner, S. and Swarbrooke, J., (2016). Consumer behaviour in tourism. Routledge, 3rd edition,
Abingdon.
Medlik, S. ed., (2016). Managing tourism. Elsevier, first published in 1991, Amsterdam
Nakashima, S.K. and Calvente, M., (2016). “The history of tourism: epitome of changes.
Turismo e Sociedade, 9(2), pp. 35- 50.
Roberts, L., (2014). “Talking about my generation: popular music and the culture of heritage”.
International journal of heritage studies, 20(3), pp.262-280.
Thomas, R., (2013). Small firms in tourism. Routledge. First edition 2004, Abingdon.
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