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Globalization's Impact on Tourism
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According to Chris Cooper (2005) tourism industry can be defined as a whole range of individuals, businesses, organisation and places which combine in some way to deliver a travel experience. A hospitality industry can be regarded as an industry which provides food, beverages and accommodation services. The Tourism and Hospitality industry has flourished even it has struggled to cope with difficult challenges (Cetron, 2001) and ‘globalisation’ may be the cause of this which is having a significant influence on the industry. The influence of globalisation on Tourism and Hospitality industry however may not always be positive but can also be contradictory which can upset the industry and the people involved in it. This essay will further develop the concept of globalisation and look into the economic, social and political factors. In addition, the essay will also explore the Multinationals Corporation (MNCs) and put forward arguments that centrals the globalisation. Moreover, the history of tourism and its evolvement will also be considered.
The word ‘tourist’ first appeared in the English language in the early 1800s (Cooper & Fletcher, 2005) and in this very century the first hotel was opened in London. By the end of next century Thomas Cook had offered the first inclusive tour to the Paris Exhibition and by 1872 steam was harnessed to power ships when the first round the world tour was organised. A backward glance reveals that tourism started early and has since evolved significantly with the change in technology, the government in ...
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Globalization has incurred dramatic transformation to commerce practices around the globe. Corporations like Intel, Apple, and IBM have begun to outsource experts from different parts of the globe, reasoning variation in firm’s structures and work shifts (Bernstein, Kripalani and Engardio, 2004). Consolidation between airlines (e.g., sky alliances, world members & star alliances) is further instances of variations caused due to this phenomenon. According to Jean de la Croix (2011), as many other industries, hospitality and tourism sector has also been affected by the globalization. Hence, this dissertation peruses the impacts of globalization on the five star hotels in Geneva city, Switzerland with a specific concern on how it impacts the hotels marketing strategy and also their business performance. In this etude, “globalization” reflects on the procedure of augmenting cultural and social relationship, economic, and political interdependence, market and financial accretion that are due to the advancements in transportation technologies, communication, and business liberation (Lenway and Eden, 2002)
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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).
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Tourism is a typical activity of fashion that the public participate widely and it has grown in importance over recorded human history. Innumerable articles refer tourism as “the world’s largest industry”; policy-makers, analysts, and scholars often speak of the size of the tourism compared to that of other industries (Smith 2004: 26). These series of misleading statement, together with the mass media’s reports (out of context), make the idea that tourism is a single large industry branded into many people’s minds. However, in this essay I will demonstrate that it is a simplistic and misleading idea, which should be replaced by the plural term, “tourism industries”. Moreover, tourism is not the world’s largest industry, but largest service sector.
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