The Range of Commercial and Non-Commercial Organisations in Travel and Tourism
1. The Public Sector
All these organisations are connected to either the National
Government, which is departments or ministries, or to local
Government.
Organization Chart
This chart shows the range of commercial and non commercial
organisations involved in Travel and Tourism.
Government Organisations
The role of the DCMS
· The government organisation, the DCMS ( The Department for Culture
Media and Sport. This is one of the many civil service departments
which serve the elected government of the day, whatever their
political views. These departments do not have any political bias.
Other examples are:
§ Treasury - doles out all the money the taxpayers money to other
departments, e.g. education, defence, DEFRA (Department for the
Farming and Rural Affairs), which is the department for the
environment.
· The DCMS is responsible for and to oversee :
§ Government policy on the arts,
§ Sport
§ The National Lottery,
§ Tourism,
§ Libraries,
§ Museums and galleries,
§ Broadcasting,
§ Film,
§ The music Industry,
§ Press freedom and regulation licensing,
§ Gambling
§ Historic environment.
· The present secretary of the DCMS is Tessa Jowell.
Funding of the DCMS
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· Funding comes from the taxpayer (income tax)
· In addition, the Treasury decides what share each government
department will get.
Stakeholders
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· Stakeholders are anyone who has an interest in an organisation. The
people who are hold an interest in the DCMS range from:
§ Government of the day. This is because DCMS carries out the
policies. This relates to Tomorrows Tourism Today, which outlines
plans for action and responsibilities for delivery for the DCMS and
its key partners in five areas. These are the four joint priorities
agreed by the DCMS and the tourism industry; marketing and e-tourism,
quality, skills and data, plus a fifth priority for the DCMS -
· Works closely with tourism businesses, associations and other destinations to encourage tourism to grow, · Secures grants and additional funds for new tourism activities, · Funds market research to keep up-to-date with tourism trends, · Provides advice and support to local businesses, · Participates in several marketing partnerships with tourism businesses and councils.
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Exploring the Types of Business Organisations There are two Business Sectors: Public Sector These are businesses owned and run by the government. Some examples of Services provided in the public sector are the postal service, schools, colleges, housing environment, some bus and train services, fire, police, ambulance and local justice and social services. Their method of raising capital is different as Private Sector businesses have to raise their own capital e.g. their own money, a bank loan etc. The Public Sector business can get the money required from the Treasury or from local rates.
In recent years, business tourism has become increasingly prevalent and prevailing in the tourism industry. There are large quantities of significant changes which have far-reaching implications for all consumers and suppliers of business travel such as consumption patterns, great developments in transport and communications technology, and the world´s political and economic changes related to tourism industry. All these developments have brought large effects on business travel as well as the main challenges to this sector for the coming years. Every day, tens of thousands of people are beginning or ending their business trips all around the world, while numerous conferences or exhibitions are being held globally, so business tourism is a
integrate, but this can also lead to a loss in jobs, as the amount of
The political factors reflect the government intervention into the economy. With country’s steady political environment, high predictability of government policy and low political risk (The PRS Group, 2014)1,5, UK is offering good opportunity for any business. In medium term, the government policy for tourism and covered by Government Tourism Policy (2011)3 is intended to enhance the sector.
For the past few decades other forms of tourism, also known as niche tourism, have been becoming more popular, particularly:
Stakeholders refer to individuals or groups of people that have an interest in a business. Management argues that as long as there is wealth for shareholders, then anything is done in a responsible manner and things should be done to promote the interest of other stakeholders.
Tourism and Hospitality has developed rapidly and becoming extremely important to economy in the world. The income that several countries in the world receive from tourism industry can be reached to $1billion per year. In addition, Marketing is one of the most important factors that help and effect to tourism industry in many positive ways. Marketing evolved in the tourism industry since 1980. It promotes tourism industry by encouraging the tourists to travel at their destination with the strategy that made up to the tourist satisfaction. However, a marketing strategy does not have to be complex, in fact it should be a easily understood which ensure the advantage of marketing of the products and services to the tourist business to obtain positive
According to Leiper “Transportation is the only link between the tourist-generating region and destination region”[2]So, transportation was a more interesting sector to discuss in the report but I tried to find a company which is related with all these main sub-sectors discussed above in the report. I have decided to look in the U.K market for such company because “Tourism is one of the largest industries in U.K, worth approximately 75.9 £ Billion to the U.K economy in 2002 and supporting around 2.1 million jobs.” [3] During my research on internet I found many companies offering services in the tourism of U.K but I have decided to choose “Simply Travel” because of its variety of services offering related with the accommodation, transportation and attractions.
This mean that government also playing an important role in term of Responsible Tourism. Similarly, according to Spenceley, , responsible tourism is an approach which travellers, government bodies, tourism suppliers, and local authorities need to take action in sustainable development principle (as cited Farmaki, Constanti,Yiasemi and Karis, 2014, p.12). There are several role that play by government that are making tourism policies, ensure tourism industry runs smoothly according to the policies and market the industry (Gough, 2008, p137). Government can conserve the environment and ecology through enforce the rule and regulation which increase the punishment and summons to the party or person who damage the environment and