The Development of the Travel and Tourism Industry and the Factors Affecting it Today
Contents
The development of the travel and tourism industry Page 3-4
Factors that have led to the growth in travel and tourism Page 4-6
Future developments in travel and tourism Page 6-7
Factors affecting the travel and tourism industry today Page 8-9
Bibliography Page 10
The Development of the Travel and Tourism Industry
Throughout history, people have travelled across Britain for purposes
of trade, education, religion and to fight in battles. It was not
until the eighteenth century, however, that the foundations of what we
now regard as the British tourist industry began to be laid.
Key Milestones in the Development of the UKtravel and tourism
DATE
MILESTONE
1936
Billy Butlin opens his first holiday camp in Skegness
1938
Holidays with Pay Act introduced
1946
Fred Pontin opens his first holiday near Weston Super Mare
1950
First package air holiday organised by Horizon
1952
First Jet Airline passenger service
1959
First Jet Airline passenger service to Australia
1960
Number of domestic holidays taken exceeds 30 million for the first
time and number of foreign holidays rises to 3.5 million
Early
1960's
First global distribution systems developed by American Airlines
1968
Countryside Act passed to create national parks
1969
Development of Tourism Act introduced
1976
Concorde goes into service
1981
60 per cent of households in the UK have regular use of at least one
car
1983
77% of British Workers have...
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30% and more following the terrorist attacks, the long-term outlook
for travel and tourism demand is expected to slowly brighten as
consumer confidence about safety and security recover.
Customers
In the travel ad tourism industry there are different types of
customers, therefore making the industry meet different types of needs
for different customers
Greater use of segmentation in the travel and tourism industry has led
to focus on more varied customer groups:
- Leisure customers
- Business customers
- Independent travellers
- Package holiday makers
- Age-specific groups
Bibliography
Ray Youell Vocational- A-level Travel and Tourism
Tourism and Hospitality in the 21st century A. Lockwood and S. Medlik
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75% use it at least once a month, and 85% have used it once in the year.
Tourism is one of the biggest and fastest growing industries in the world but it is characterised by seasonality. Tourism is highly dependent on seasonal changes, economic activities and the culture in general. Season is the most important period within the year, in which some certain things are abounding.
The discourse concerning the impacts of tourism in national development, economic and otherwise, has had both negative and positive connotations. Societies hosting tourist attractions are seen as the victims of the negative effects of tourism while the tourists seen as the perpetrators of the crime; bringing their culture and values and imposing them on the host societies. While these generally accepted stereotypical thoughts may be true in some instances, it is however misleading to hold these notions regarding the changes in the social and cultural aspects of a society. Whereas sociocultural changes may in part be due to tourism, it can also be due to other modernization and global factors such as international trade relations, military actions, migration etc (Sharpley R. and Telfer D., 2002).
THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN BOTH THE OKAVANGO DELTA (BOTSWANA) AND ISIMANGALISO WETLAND PARK.
Innovation is a procedure in which the product or provided service is ready for improvement, in order to maintain a good company and to not be the same as the competitors. So in other words, innovation is being done to make a product or service better and more valuable, and therefore attracting more customers. Because the product has improved, customers are willing to buy this specific product because it is better than the product that the competitors provide.
HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT AND CAREER There are diverse career opportunities in field of hospitality management. Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Tourism is directly related to hospitality, education and industry. Tourism kicks off many economic enterprises which in turn draw investment, revenue, and economic growth.
it is or how far it is to get to; people visit these places year in
time and is therefore perishable. All hotels with a fixed number of rooms and transport operators with a fixed number of seats (railway, air carrier, bus companies, etc.) face the challenge of matching supply to the available demand. Excess capacity that is not sold on a particular day is lost and can never be recovered.
years ago, only 1 in 20 UK families had a car. By the end of the last
Tourism in Malaysia started from the 1960s and it is one of the new forces in the economic sector but the growth was slow. Then, a tourism master plan was added into the Second Malaysia Plan during 1971-1975 and this marked the beginning of tourism as the country’s economic contributor that has become the second highest foreign exchange earner for the country after the manufacturing sector (Robiah S., 2007). In the early growth of the industry, Visit Malaysia Year (VMY) is a major tourism event was launched by the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Tourism (MOCAT) in the 1990s that it was extended to include other attractions. The major markets for Malaysia tourism are the neighbouring ASEAN countries, China, South Korea, Japan, India, Australia and United States. This event was a huge success which more than 7 million international tourist arrivals were recorded with a growth of 53.6 per cent. Moreover, the slogan ‘Malaysia Truly Asia’ is a large advertising campaign sponsored by the Malaysian government which is internationally recognized as a uniquely Malaysian brand to promote tourism in Malaysia. The Malaysian tourism industry had faced with several challenges such as the unstable world economics, politics, SARS and challenge posed by the other ASEAN countries competing to draw tourists had initiated Malaysia to set its own strategy in diversifying the tourist attractions. However, according to the Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board (MTPB), which called Tourism Malaysia (2008) aims to encourage tourism and its related industries in Malaysia. It is expected that tourism would help promote new investments in the country, as well as provide increased employment opportunities. The growth of tourism would also contribute positively to t...
According to the World Travel & Tourism Council (2003) (WTTC), travel and tourism is the biggest industry in the world on virtually any economic measure, including gross output, value added, capital investment, employee, and tax contribution. Therefore, what is travel? Travel is to move or go from one place to another (Cambridge Dictionaries Online, 2015). A memorable trip that I went is Genting Highlands, Bukit Tinggi and Sungkai. The trip is a family trip. This is a 2 Day 1 night trip. The motivation that motivate we go to travel is because of push and pull factor. Dann (1997) simply explains push factors as the motive that drives a tourist away from home and pull factors as the motives in which drive a tourist towards a destination. Based
integrate, but this can also lead to a loss in jobs, as the amount of
If every other sub product was perfect, they would be useless without somewhere to stay. The tourist experience would still be good if the entertainment or conference/ convention facilities were not perfect or non-existent. When a tourist destination has great food places and attractions they need a place to stay so they can complete all their dream attractions and activities during their time away. If a destination has good accommodation they also need a basic infrastructure and transport for visitors to access the destination such as flying or a taxi from the airport. Hotels have restaurants available for guests for convenient use. In Rotorua I have stayed at three very different types of accommodation,
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
At the present time, one of the inseparable parts of the economic growth is considered as tourism industry. Commonly, tourism is the movement of people to other places for business or leisure purposes as well as covers their activities. Holloway and Humphreys defines that the places where tourists come and spend their money are called as “tourist destinations” in other words “receiving areas”. Many countries have been improving tourism to overcome economic difficulties since it is growing fast. The industry activities have been demonstrated a general positive trend in the economy and it has already become the inherent part of economic development. In host countries, tourism has led to such positive consequences as the improved infrastructure,