According to Statista, a website that provide the statistic and study from more than 18,00 sources over the world, travel and tourism industry in the United States is one of the largest industry. In 2015, travel and tourism industry has made a total contribution of 1.5 trillion USD to GPD. In addition, they predict that the number will grow up to 2.6 trillion USD by 2027. Annually, travel and tourism directly provides about 5.5 million jobs for American people.
The travel and tourism industry is very huge. Therefore, people try to break down it into a small sector, so they can easily target the visitor or the customer. Based on the purpose of the visitor, we usually have recreation tourism, cultural tourism, nature tourism, pleasure
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Therefore, sustainable tourism should include 3 aspects. First of all, we should make optimal use of environmental resources in order to developing and maintaining essential ecological processes. It also helps to conserve natural heritage and biodiversity. Secondly, we should respect the socio cultural of host communities by conserving their built and living cultural heritage. Moreover, we also should respect their traditional value, and contribute to inter cultural understanding. Lastly, we should consider the long term economic operations by providing socio economic benefits to all stakeholders that are distributed. We should create stable employment for local people and opportunities to earn income. In addition, we also need to provide some social services to host community to help them maintain their property.
Based on the definition of mass tourism and sustainable tourism, we could say that mass tourism is unsustainable. Anna Pollock from the article Six Reason Why Mass Tourism Is Unsustainable have come up with six reasons to prove that mass tourism is unsustainable. The first reason is because one product is substitutable for another. The mass tourism about distribution and consumption of packaged products. When the local people see the tourist interesting in something, they will focus more on that product and cut back from the other product. Therefore, that will destroy the balance and it can destroy a culture. The
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).
Tourism plays a significant role in sustainable development and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Tourism Organization (WTO) wish to encourage all countries to make sure that their policies and actions for its development and management fully embrace the principles of sustainability. Likewise, policies to promote sustainable development should take full account of the opportunities offered by tourism. Various international conventions and declarations have put forward principles and guidelines for sustainable tourism and the importance of tourism and its sustainability was underlined at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. Many countries declare that they are pursuing, or wish to pursue, policies for ‘sustainable tourism’. Despite this interest, there remains a degree of uncertainty over the scope and priorities for making tourism more sustainable and only partial appreciation of how to put this into practice (Making Tourism More Sustainable, 2005).
Unfortunately I see this conversation ending with Celeste and Jim both very upset and no solutions to the conflict being discussed. It seems that at the end of this scenario the conflict was beginning to spiral out of control, and communication was shutting down. It will end with Celeste and Jim blowing up at each other and not being willing to understand the others perspective about the situation. They will not talk for a while after this happens and Jim will hire Nikki as he intended to from the beginning. As a negative end to this conflict I see Jim and Celeste looking back over the conflict still trying to defend their position (retrospective goals).
According to statistics, tourism generates more than three point five trillion dollars in revenue worldwide. Eighteen million American are employed in travel and tourism related jobs. In America one out of every ten people are employed in travel. Travel and Tourism has generated ninety nine point five billion in revenue for federal, state and local governments.
The current research paper covers the main effects of global tourism, both positive and negative. International tourism is a significant sector of business. For some countries it is one of the main sources of national income. The most important positive economic effects of tourism are as follows: increase in budget revenues, production expansion, stimulation of investments, and improvement in the population’s welfare. Tourism influences social and cultural lives of people in a positive way by stimulating the development and revival of local cultures and encouraging intercultural exchange.
Travel & Tourism is a vast industry, which is known to provide numerous facilities, to people all around the world. Travel & Tourism is quite imperative, for many economies to survive, since, some of their source of income is dependent on travel and tourism.
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 Tourism Industry depends on transportation to keep them in business. People need to be able to travel to destinations, therefore they need all modes of transportation.
1).The relationship between Hospitality and Tourism: Tourism and hospitality go hand in hand, the hospitality industry offer services like accommodation, transportation, food and beverage, recreation and leisure. Tourism is the activity by the tourists where they engage in travelling to destinations where they want to experience recreational and leisure activities and most of the time avails of accommodation, food and beverage. The hospitality industry is the supplier of the services for tourism. The meaning of hospitality is providing a safe and enjoyable environment for patrons. It also means responsibly serving liquor, to ensure that patrons do not become unduly intoxicated and subsequently a problem for management, staff and the
I chose the topic clothing from the book “The Accidental Tourist” where the writer tells us about the clothing of the protagonist and his wife. The protagonist of the story wears a Summer suit which he prefers for traveling and his wife wore a summer dress. India is a very traditional and culture rich country, and it lies in the Asian continent. It is the seventh largest country by area and is the largest country in South Asia. According to the census of India, “The population of India is around 1.3 billion making it the second most populated country in the world. There are around 4,200 religions in India with 9 major religions like Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism and jainisim”(Religion). India has a variety of clothing with a major influence of religion. Clothing is considered as one of the most important aspect for displaying the traditional and cultural values in India which is not the same in USA as they have no traditional clothing.
Planning and development are both extremely important factors within the tourism industry and can have both positive and negative effects on the environment, local communities and tourist destinations. “Destination planning aims to limit the negative impacts of cultural tourism upon the history and lifestyles of the local community. An understanding of sustainable tourist development allows for the development of culture without loss of its authentic identity” (Maidment. T. 2012). This statement discusses the importance of planning to avoid having any negative impacts on environments and communities. Because the effects of tourism are so severe to destinations, many natural and cultural resources have been destroyed, therefore tourism planning is vital to preserve and maintain these places for future generations.
As we saw previously, we can divide the touristic industry into two major categories, the modern-day massive tourism and ecotourism. Both forms have a distinctive history, definition, economic benefits and environmental impact. Although both are growing at lightning speed, especially as our societies become wealthier and eager to explore the world around them, the biggest dilemma lies on which, ecotourism or tourism, is a better alternative to pursue to balance economic development and environmental protection. To find the answer, we need to analyze and compare the main premises about the two topics.
Within qualitative research, there are alternative ways of thinking, studying and writing about hospitality and tourism. Collective story telling is well suited for scholarship that seeks to contextualize lived experiences and presents research data in the form of a performance, or dialogue between characters (Parry & Johnson, 2007). Collective stories drawn from interview transcripts, field notes, memos, and other research data, help to create a fictionalized narrative (Solórzano & Yosso, 2002). Within the narrative are fictionalized characters based on interview transcripts and field notes. Cook and Dixson (2013) posit that characters in collective stories are often representative of several participants rather than just a single participant with a pseudonym. Furthermore, this performance could be used in a public forum as a way to engage audience members in critical conversations and social change (Freeman et. al, 2006).
The long haul manageability of tourism lay on the capacity of group pioneers and tourism experts to boost its advantages and minimize its expenses. The development of tourism industry has been a noteworthy supporter to increment financial movement all through the United States and the world. Albeit most think tourism as far as financial effects like employments are frequently regular, ineffectively paid and assesses. And additionally destinations subject to tourism can be unfavorably influenced by occasions, for example, terrorism, characteristic calamities and financial subsidence.
Now I am the head of the Yunnan province tourism department, and I will give an introduction to it. Yunnan province is situated in the southest of China which covers a total area of 394,000 square kilometers. And it is land of natural beauty and mystery. Today people think of it as a “ frontier province”, which lies just below the Tibetan plateau and Vietnam, Laos and Burma.