Introduction: Tourism sector in the UK is not only one of the largest tourism industries in the world but it is identified by the Government as one of the five fundamental sectors in the UK (Tourism, 2011). Despite of this, there is a gradual decline in domestic tourism in the recent past (Tourism, 2011). In addition to this, according to the government statistics there is a slight decline in the visit of foreign travellers in the last quarter of 2016, as compared to the last quarter of the year 2015 (The National Archives, OGL, 2017). Heritage and culture are the key factors to attract the tourists to the UK, especially London. This is because, London is a home of many historic buildings and heritages. However, in order to encourage the future …show more content…
Task 1: Business Improvement Districts and its implications on tourism planning A: What is Business Improvement Districts in tourism planning The definition of tourism planning is evolved from the past. Tourism planning is the set of action plans to be implemented for the better future of tourism industry (Notes, sp no intro 1). Arounds twenty years before, tourism planning concept was limited to the aim of enhancing the tourist review and experience of tourists which can support the improvement of local standard of living as well as improvement of the district. Later the scope of tourism planning widened. In 1998, Williams described the objectives of tourism planning such as structural planning of the business districts to facilitate conveniences for tourists, planning ahead about the aspects affecting tourism such as transportation, human resource etc., planning for conserving the heritage sites and tourist attraction for the benefit of local residents, and redistributing benefits of the tourism. He further adds that tourism planning is the attempt made to equate the demand for and supply of tourism services. Tourism planning is a political process, which may face the problem of coordination because it operates on different scales such …show more content…
It is an organized action plan which includes equating the economic objectives with the quality of life of locals, conservation of environment and conservation of the heritage. Strategic tourism planning is a part of tourism policy (Edgell & Swanson, 2013). Therefore, it can be said that strategic tourism planning needed to be included in the tourism policy for achieving long term economic and social objectives. Strategic tourism planning includes many steps, such as listing the main tourist attractions and developing and enhancing those to boost the tourism (Edgell & Swanson, 2013). This includes enhancing the tourism assets and maintaining the environment to improve tourism activity in the long run. Westchester, the central London borough is known for the historic buildings and heritage sites, which is the fundamental reason for tourists to visit London (notes). Therefore, historic monuments, sites and buildings are the assets for the tourism in London and surrounding area. These assets needed to be reinstated and developed in order to improve the sustainability of strategic tourism plan and attract the domestic and international tourists. This is possible to be implemented with the help of business improvement districts in practice. BID is not only limited to more private and public financing real estate and infrastructure development but it includes safety measures,
This report explores the theoretical concepts associated with tourism, leisure and hospitality developments in Blackpool. It also looks at the economic, social, political and environmental impacts of tourism. There are a variety of reasons why Blackpool has been developed as a tourist resort, and it has many historical sites of interest including the beach and Blackpool Tower. It also has a variety of leisure activities. Blackpool also offers a wide range of accommodation and restaurant options. It is a very accessible location, with airports, railway stations and main roads all located within the area.
The report presents an overview of the national and international tourism policies that have been drafted and implemented throughout the years. I will compare and contrast the Maltese Tourism Policy (2006 & 2012) with the British Tourism Policy (2011). Goeldner and Ritchie (2009) identify a tourism policy as a set of regulations, rules, guidelines, directives, and development/promotion objectives and strategies that provide a framework within which the collective and individual decisions affecting long-term tourism development and the daily activities within a destination are taken”. The main purpose of any tourism policy is to generate income and create employment. In fact, tourism is one of the crucial generators of income all around the world. In this case, the two countries; Malta and England are largely dependent on this industry so it is of particular importance that they adapt an effective policy.
Tourism industry has many pillars which makes it effective, destinations, products, infrastructure, tourist security, marketing and so on, one of them is re branding of a destination, which is considered immensely important to cater the needs and wants of tourist and destination itself. This essay will critically evaluate the destination chosen which is London, its current situation for tourism activities, places and services which are offering to tourist and then moving onto the other side discussing the products or places which has not been promoted as like others, re branding them, creating a new slogan for marketing strategies, attracting and giving information to tourist via promotional activities to sell these brands.
The meaning of Tourism can relate to traveling for personal leisure, for relatives, business or events etc. The Tourism Industry is very complex, according to The International Career Institute (International Career Institute, 2016) it is one of the biggest and constantly developing industry to be a part of. Transportation, Restaurants, Casino’s, Hospitality, Events, Accommodation, Airlines all belong to the Tourism Industry (Open Universities Australia, n.d.). Perrottet states that the Tourism Industry has developed into a significant sector that can influence the growth of the country’s economy as well as the growth of the population (Perrottet, 2016), for some people it is nothing. But to other counties, The Tourism sector is the main source of success, happiness, good health and income. The
In every tourism policy, one can find different issues and challenges that a particular country is facing or has to face as a destination which is trying to manage and compete with other countries all over the word especially those who offer basically the same product to the tourists. A tourism policy shows a number of policy responses and a number of aims and tasks which the government of that particular destination is committed to do in a stipulated number of years.
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These facilities ha a strong connection with business work, but needs local government’s policy support, since the construction of facilities related with structure and framework of the city. Government should balance the proportion to make sure these facilities will not trouble local people’s life, and to increase new kinds of tour such as exhibition tourism, business tourism, outdoor tourism and vacation tourism. Different with normal tourism, these new kinds of tourism could
This chapter deals with the literature on the socio-economic impacts of heritage tourism in order to give the reader a clear picture of the problem. According to Weaver and Lawton (2002), the main purposed of tourism management at a destination is to maximise the economic, social and environmental benefits while trying to minimising the associated costs. Regarding the impacts of tourism, most literature will describes economic and social impacts in both positive and negative (Lickorish & Jenkins, 1997; Narayan, 2004; Page, 2007; Timothy & Boyd, 2003; Tsartas, 1992).
Many people travel to different places from all around the world and most people travel to new places that they have never visited before, especially at their summer vacation, London is one of the first opinion that people choose when travelling, one of the biggest reasons that people visit London is because it contains one of the most popular and interesting history. London contain different culture from different countries from all around the world, this essay will outline and describe the advantages and the disadvantages that London suffer when tourist visit London, and this essay will also describe the financial, economical, social and the future possibilities of how tourists can affect London.
The solution of this problem is to improve the infrastructure and apply new strategies to attract more tourists. The government is responsible for this project especially the ministry of tourism as well as the businessman will play an important role by their funds as sponsors for this project. The Turkish has proposed number of strategies with the aim of improving transportation system, restoring historical places. Moreover, according to (how to promote tourism) “ they improve on accommodations and health services in order to attract the tourists, train easy tour guides and hotel workers for communications and...
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 one of the top five industries in the UK and heritage and culture are the basis of tourism in the UK as per above explanations. However, development of heritage tourism and cultural tourism would be a beneficial step to improve the growth and the development in the tourism sector. In the tourism sector, heritage tourism is evolving and becoming a crucial component in international tourism. According to Timothy (2011), heritage tourism is expected to provide the knowledge and experience of the tangible and intangible heritage to the tourists. It brings the economic development of a community. Heritage is a pride for communities as well as there
When designing a tourism development plan, the size of the destination should be considered. A destination is defined as a geographical area (city, region, country) that attracts visitors for tourism purposes (leisure, business, volunteer, etc.)
In recent years, tourism marketing has gone through strategic changes with the improvement in new technologies, the chase of a relationship between customers and suppliers as well as the importance of sustainability issues in marketing. Marketing Tourism reconsiders the needs of the tourists but does not overlook on the long term economic, environmental, social and cultural interests of the local population. So, it means that marketing consider both the tourist demand and effect to society as
Many investments for infrastructure construction in the destination primarily designed for the business tourists (hotels, restaurants, transportation…) provide economic profits, and they can also be enjoyed by local residents and leisure tourists.