Tourism: A Major Approach To The Tourism And Travel Industry

Over the last 50 years have witnessed tremendous growth in tourism industry. Apparently, enormous profits are gained and gradually becoming a main revenue to many countries. This all-time business, however, is forming many drawbacks to tourists in particular and society in general in terms of environment, health and security. As the number of tourist rapidly increase, environmental problems can be anticipated. Indeed, over-development can be a negative factor as there are more and more constructions are built without any environmental awareness. For instance, the higher quantities of visitors, the bigger needs for accommodation. Thus, it is tourism business’s responsibility to offer more hotels with larger areas, more shopping malls, more

Unfortunately many industry leaders simply provided lip service to security issues rather than confronting the problem. This phenomenon proves to be more serious in the developing countries such as Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc. The constant temptation from rich tourists have attracted drop-out youngsters and lead them to crimes like robbery, murder, harassment. Worse, popular attraction can be a destination for many political conflict and terrorism can become a nightmare to the tourist attraction in particular and government in general. Apparently, terrorism can not only affect directly to the tourism industry but also can hit other sectors of economy and health that somehow directly and indirectly related to tourism. Unless the visitor’s security are paid more attention, many tourism and travel destinations may confront severe revenue loss in the future as more visitors are getting alert of these incidents and they are avoiding these vulnerable places for the next visits. Unfortunately, travelers can easily choose an alternative attraction, which is safer but the negative impact on the local tourism industry and that country can be profound and hard to

Firstly, to improve the shortage of land and threaten of natural habitat destruction, we can consider to promote the concept of eco-tourism. Due to the globalization along with the short-term outlook and profit-first criteria of the local companies, tourism nowadays become too streamlined and less unique locations. Predictably, eco-friendly tourist attractions would be a new trend for leisure visitors in future with revenue will be contributed to environmental and cultural preservation. Although waste treatment and disposal should be considered as vital concern, tourist cognition and awareness should be simultaneously enhanced. Hopefully, a comprehensive understanding among the role of each tourist on environment protection can positively change the thoughts and actions towards a “green” tourism industry. Secondly, as the low productivity in detecting and prevention SARS are the vital key to its outbreak, investment should be spent on more effective pre-departure scanning at airport, where germs are being spread out. Also, infection management capacities should be advanced as well. Moreover, standards of food hygiene should be strictly controlled as food poisoning is one of the most popular concern in medical tourism. Last but not least, even though serious problems have arisen as a consequence of lacking security, there are solutions that should be taken into