Resort Thesis

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Tourism plays a vital role in economic development in most countries around the world. The industry has not only direct economic impact, but also significant indirect and influential impacts. There is agreement among experts that the travel and tourism sector is the fastest growing of global economy. According to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, international tourism receipts surpass US$ 1 trillion in 2011, growing about 3.8%up from 2010 (WTO, 2012).

As mentioned by Rimmington & Morrison (2009), the assistance from different parts of the world presents a new and diverse outlook for future research including theoretical innovations and revelations, cultural and environmental aspects, tourist destination and other ecotourism and recreational aspects of tourism and hospitality industry (Brotherton,

The Travel and Tourism industry is still one of the largest single businesses in world commerce and its importance is widely recognized. The tourism industry is now one of the largest sectors earning foreign exchange. In the face of many benefits, many countries have started assigning due weight age to the tourism industry in their national development agenda. Tourism is an industry that operates on a massively broad scale: it embraces activities ranging from the smallest sea-side hotel; to air-lines, multi-national hotel chains and major international tour operators. Originally, non-traditional industries such as tourism emerged as a solution to strike a balance between ecology and industry

The efforts to promote tourism in India were made in 1945 , a committee was setup under the Chairmanship of Sir John Sargent. The development of tourism was taken up in a planned manner in 1956 , but it was only after the 1980’s that tourism activity picked momentum. A National Policy on Tourism started in 1982, a plan was made to achieve sustainable growth in tourism , a National Action Plan was prepared for promotion of tourism.

A resort is a place used for relaxation or recreation, attracting visitors for holidays orvacations. Resorts are places, towns or sometimes commercial establishment operated by a single company. Such a self-contained resort attempts to provide for most of a vacationer's wants while remaining on the premises, such as food, drink, lodging, sports, entertainment, and shopping.

In order to develop tourism throughout the country, The Ministry of Tourism and Civil aviation produced “Tourism Vision 2020” in consultation with its industry partners (Tourism Vision 2020, 2009). This booklet was published in May 2009. Visit Nepal 2011 was targeted to increase visitors mainly from India and China due to the growing economy power of the 2 countries as well as being 2 of the worlds most populous country (Adhikari, n.d.). Government of Nepal has placed tourism on high priority in its new tourism policy declared in 2009 making it mainstream with national development (Tourism Vision 2020, 2009). One of the aims of “Tourism Vision 2020” is to bring 2 million arrivals by 2020 and also increase economic opportunities and employment in tourism sector to 1 million (Tourism Vision 2020, 2009). “Tourism vision 2020” has 6 main objectives to

The Boutique Hostel Beyond provides accommodations to tourists in the Phuket, Thailand area. The number of tourists to this area grew steadily between 2002 in 2011. In 2002 the number of tourists to the area has approximately 9.5 million. This has grown to approximately 19.1 million in 2011. Occupancy rates during 2011 were approximately 45% in the north, 59% in the central region, and 65.5% in the southern region. This growth has created tremendous opportunity for those who wish to invest in the tourism industry. However, in order to capture the benefits of this opportunity, proper attention to

Tourism has tremendously grown and developed over the years where it is now considered an industry. The stabilisation of a nation is a must for the development of tourism industry, tourism also helps generate income for the country. There are a wide range of associations that are involved in this industry including the independent hotels. The hotel industry is involved in consortium where they join in one or more associations to increase their buying capacity, and improve or grow their offers of services to target

The tour operators that were interviewed for this research project have described Nepal as a country with full of breathtaking views and mountains, scenery, wildlife conservations places such as the national parks and the cultural and religious diversity and friendly people. But, In Denmark, Nepal is not perceived as having all of the things mentioned above. Many Danes perceive Nepal as a backpacking destination, hard core trekking destination and a Himalayan kingdom. The diversity of culture, mix of religions, wildlife conservation areas and beautiful national parks, friendly Nepali people are still unknown to many Danes in Denmark. Although Nepal possesses many assets, in the Danish market, it is largely unknown, which is an opportunity as Danish market for traveling to Nepal is underdeveloped and tourism to Nepal can be increased from Denmark.

Thailand has been promoting the country as a tourist destination and develops the country in the sustainable way to increase the flow of foreign tourists (Henkel et al., 2006). Thailand has increased the number of tourists inbound more than 106 times from 81,340 in 1960 to 8.6 million in 1999. Meanwhile, the tourism income also improved from US$9 to US$6.7 billion. Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) was planning to position Thailand as the tourism hub of Asia in the future. The country will be well known internationally and turn into the peak tourist destination in the next 20 years (Zhang, Qu and Tavitiyaman, 2009).

The Himalayas is a vital region that facilitates mountain tourism to a number of countries including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bhutan, China, India and Nepal. The unique landscape and scenery of Himalayas is the main attraction to tourist activities in this region. Tourism industry is one of the major contributors to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employment. As an example, tourism sector contributes 9.4% of GDP and 8.2% of total employment in 2012 for Nepal. (World Travel & Tourism Council 2013)

The Himalayas is a vital region that facilitates mountain tourism to a number of countries including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bhutan, China, India and Nepal. The unique landscape and scenery of Himalayas is the main attraction to tourist activities in this region. Tourism industry is one of the major contributors to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employment. As an example, tourism sector contributes 9.4% of GDP and 8.2% of total employment in 2012 for Nepal (World Travel & Tourism Council 2014).

The tourism sector being a strong contributor is just not a new finding as its contribution has received widespread recognition in the country. (The tourism destination conference for 2010) reveals that the tourism receipt for 2009 was at RM 53.367.7 million, with 23.65 million tourist arrivals, making this industry the second largest income earner for the country in the same year and though these figures are laudable, it is said that the ‘local tourism sector has not been exploited to its potential’ (Y.B. Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib, 3rd March 2010). In 2009, Malaysia made it into top 10 most visited countries in the world, and was confidently placed in the 9th position below turkey and Germany. This remark shows that Malaysia’s tourism sector has pulled international recognition and has gained force of attraction that draws the attention of tourists all around the continents of the world to choose Malaysia as their tourism destination.

Attraction means anything that creates a desire in any person to travel in a specific tourist destination or attraction. Local is another basic component of tourism. The locale may be used to include the holiday destination and what it offers to the tourist. The holiday destination may offer natural attractions. It is considered as the most important basic component of tourism. Fashion is an important factor in the demand for various tourist attractions and amenities. The tourist who visits a particular place for its natural beauty may decide to visit some other attractions due to a change in fashion.