Investigating Factors that Affect Tourism Flows on a General Basis
There are a number of factors, which affect the amount of tourists
visiting a country either for a holiday or as a business trip. These
factors can be to a tourist's advantage but the majority of the time
they will put the tourist off travelling to a destination.
Each of these factors can either be Political, Physical, Economic or
Cultural.
Physical may be one of the most common factors that would affect the
tourism flows to a destination. Climate is a prime motivation for mass
leisure travel. Travel for business purposes, and to some extent,
travel in order to visit friends and relatives is less affected by
climate.
A key element in leisure travel demand is the degree of comfort to be
experienced at the traveller's destination, such as humidity and
precipitation. If a traveller is not happy with the weather at the
destination it will tend to ruin their holiday.
The weather is a huge importance in much of the travel that takes
place from Northern Europe to the Mediterranean and from North America
to the Caribbean; the intrinsic reason for travel is to visit a sunny
beach destination. The climate is a far less significant influence on
travel from North America to Europe; there is a far higher proportion
of business travel within this flow. The Caribbean is a very popular
destination during the UK's winter months because of the hot climate,
and people from the colder regions of Northern Europe travel to the
Mediterranean because it is hotter; this amounted to around 116
million arrivals in 2000.
Because of the importance of weather and environment ...
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...has a lot to offer and has many
appealing attractions, It is a cheap place to visit and the climate is
very warm all year round, there are also a number of extravagant
hotels which at the moment are generally accommodated by Germans and
Italians. There needs to be more promotion and advertisements about
the country and people with families in the UK need to be targeted as
it is a very cheap destination to visit and provides lots of culture
and historical sites for everyone.
The accessibility into the country is relatively easy and there are a
number of airports within Tunisia, which fly from the main airports in
the UK. Tunisia itself needs to make its cultures known around the
world and its many attractive sites to attract more tourists to
increase their level of income and make their country better
established.
When planning a vacation, travelers must first decide where they want to go. Choosing whether to go tropical or not is fun! There are many things that the traveler should waiver when making the decision on his/her destination. Take traveling to Las Vegas vs. the Bahamas. These are two very different places and each will require the right amount of research and assessment on the traveler’s part on as to why they would like to journey there.
Tourism impacts can be generally classified into seven categories with each having both positive and negative impacts. These impacts include; economic, environmental, social and cultural, crowding and congestion, taxes, and community attitude. It is essential for a balance on array of impacts that may either positively or negatively affect the resident communities. Different groups are concerned about different tourism impacts that affect them in one way or another. Tourism’s benefits can be increased by use of specific plans and actions. These can also lead to decrease in the gravity of negative impacts. Communities will not experience every impact but instead this will depend on particular natural resources, development, or spatial patterns (Glen 1999).
“Tourist Point of View” is a piece written by Duke Ellington on the album “The Far East Suite.” The piece features the piano, the drums, the bass, the baritone saxophone, the tenor saxophone, and the trumpet. It is a medium to fast tempo piece with a steady percussion section in the background as the saxophones, trumpets, and other horns play in the foreground. This selection is in swing rhythmic feel. The piece has a rhythm and tempo that make it seem like you are on a journey.
The universal belief--prior to leaving for vacation-- is that the weather is going to be ideal. Thus, carelessly assuming the weather will lead to nothing but disappointment. For instance, just because May is “technically” considered to be summer, it doesn’t guarantee warm weather throughout the trip. A vacation spoiled due to dreadful weather is truly agonizing.
Still, the country has a considerable measure to do keeping in mind the end goal to completely utilize its tourism potential. The administration and organizations working in the travel and tourism industry in Morocco don't have enough apparatuses to settle on educated and productive choices. Subsequently, with a specific end goal to arrange and deal with the area, it is necessarily important to identify the variables which have an effect on tourism demand in Morocco.
The economy of tourism destinations may be unstable and show obvious fluctuations in prices and seasonal workforce. For example, in Gambia, nearly 30% of citizenry depend on tourism to make a living (OECD, 2009). The development of tourism caused 8% increase in prices in Belize (UNEP, 2006). The dependence on tourism to develop economy is another severe problem, especially for developing countries. For these countries, they may find that tourism is the best way to get immediate profits so that they place too much attention and investment to promote its development. This results in the dependence on tourism to develop economy. Malta is a country with 380,000 residents, but was visited by 1.2 million tourists in 1999; tourism contributes approximately 40% of GDP directly and indirectly (UNEP, 2006). Besides, the environmental and social impacts of unsustainable tourism will cause economic consequences，requiring more cost to compensate the destruction caused by tourism on environment and
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In general, the determinant of demand is derived from the consumer behaviour theory, where it can be differentiated between economic factors and non-economic factors. The economic factors consist of the price and income that are commonly employed in the tourism demand studies. Theoretically, if the price of educational tourism in the destination country increases, the possibility for the demand for educational tourism to the destination country will decrease. Moreover, the price-quantity demanded relationship also provides information with regards to the sensitivities of educational tourists towards the living standard in the destination country. Nevertheless, the selection of variables as the proxy of price is quite displeasure and not generally
In this literature review we will take a look at tourism and its global reach, examining its impact on the world’s economy as well as the Caribbean region and Jamaica. This literature review serves to explore the magnitude of information surrounding tourism. With the aid of the Comparative Advantage Theory, articles and statistical information we will explore the ever growing tourism industry.
Tourism is often associated with traveling to places away from home. Tourism has a big impact on the economic growth of some countries, which define the shape of their cities by producing different sectors like historic districts, convention centers, museums, malls, hotels, restaurants, and the list can be endless. Furthermore, tourism elements have been developed by cities for a variety of reasons including: situating themselves in the world by drawing a positive image and attracting visitors and for their money.
When people travel to a destination, they sure have some motivation to motivate them to make the decision. ‘Motivation’ is the key term that will make the tourist to consider the reason to travel around. During the decision making process, people will consider some of the reasons before they confirm travel to a destination. The research that has conducted in The Netherland found out a remarkably high propensity to travel, 70% of the populations are taking one holiday per year and 24% was taking two holidays per year for holiday. Some of the people will affect their decision making by looking at destination image or some of the impact advertising. On the internet, business people will use image and advertising to attract tourist to travel to the destination by using image that they edit before. This is part of the marketing to promote their country to tourist. For family traveler, they will consider the distance and transportation travel to the destination. When go for travel, tourist will bring the whole family to travel. Then, they will consider old people who travel long journey are very hard for them. If one of the family members are senior citizen, they need to consider their healthy. Some of the senior citizen cannot take long journey, such as they have sickness. Bring children go for holiday also need to be consider. Some of the children will afraid of the highest in the plane, so they will feel uncomfortable. There is plenty of reason need to consider before making any decision to travel. For understanding tourist motivation and decision making is for two main reason, planning consideration and economic consideration. (Page & Connell, 2009) Before the tourist travel to a destination, they need to think about culture, climat...
A destination constitutes an amalgam of tourism products that are offered and consumed under a brand, the brand of destination. Since the majority of tourism activities take place at destinations, “they can be described a place at which visitor temporarily base themselves to participate in tourism related interactions and activities” (Pike, 2008, p.26). Leiper (1995), cited by Buhalis (2000), defines destinations as places that people choose to stay for a period of time, to take advantage of certain features or characteristics perceived as attractions. For Cooper, Fletcher, Gilbert, Shepherd and Wanhill (1998), the destination is the focus of the facilities and services designed to meet the needs of tourists. And because it is a compound of
Tourism is an important and intricate element to society. It affects economical, social, cultural and environmental elements. Tourism can be argued to have a negative impact on the environment and decrease our already depleting resources, but tourism can also be argued to be a major contributor to strengthening economies, spread cultural traditions and improve people’s lives. Tourism
Tourism is the journey of people to destinations outside from their normal places of work and residence area. Tourism also the activities that they do during they stay in the selection destinations and the facilities created to serve for their needs. Tourism is the monetary value that tourists spent in the visit to the destination.
In the more economically developed countries (MEDCs), synonymous mainly with the industrialised countries of the northern hemisphere there, has been an explosion in the growth of leisure and tourism industry, which is now believed to be the worlds second largest industry in terms of money generated. In order to differentiate between leisure and tourism it should be recognised that leisure often involves activities enjoyed during an individual’s free time, whereas tourism commonly refers to organised touring undertaken on a commercial basis. Development in the two areas could be attributed to changing patterns in working lives within the last four decades. Generally, people now have more disposable wealth, work shorter hours, receive longer, paid annual leave, retire earlier and have greater personal mobility. In addition, according to Marshall & Wood (1995), the growth of the tourist industry per se can be associated, in part, with the concentration of capital; the emergence of diversified leisure based companies, sometimes within wider corporate conglomerates and often associated with particular airlines. Furthermore, the development of tourism can generate employment both directly, in jobs created in the hotels, restaurants etc, and indirectly, through expenditure on goods and services in the local area. Nevertheless, although the tourist industry is competitive, which essentially keeps down the cost of foreign travel, the success of tourism in any one area can be ‘influenced by weather, changing consumer tastes, demographics, economic cycles, government policy, not to mention international terrorism and other forms of conflict.’(1) Although such factors may have a detrimental affect on the economy of a popular tourist destination (or even tourism in general, in light of September 11th 2001), the consequence of tourism in general is often three fold: environmental, social and cultural, which in turn has prompted a search for new ‘friendly’ approaches that are less destructive.