Humanities Leisure and Tourism Coursework St Lucia

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Holidays to far off places and exotic locations are becoming increasingly popular. Describe the reasons for the growth of such holidays and using an example from less economically developed country, outline the physical, cultural and economic impacts of the effects of increasing tourism and ensure that such growth is sustainable in such places.

In this piece of coursework I am going to explain what is meant by Tourism and why holidays to far off places and exotic locations are becoming increasingly popular. I am going to describe the reasons for the growth of such holidays and using an example from a less economically developed country and I am also going to outline the physical, cultural and economic impacts of the growth of tourism and suggest what can be done to limit the negative effects of increasing tourism and ensure that such growth is sustainable in such places.

Tourism is basically travel for pleasure, this means travelling or going somewhere to have fun which is the same as pleasure. People travel for pleasure to have a good time, mainly they do this when they are on a holiday from work and mostly spend it with friends and family because they may live far away from their family during work so they then take holidays to visit family or go on holidays with them.

Holidays abroad are holidays when you go on holiday in another country than the one you live in. Europe is the most popular destination for UK residents, taking up almost 80 percent of visits abroad. Spain has been the most popular country to visit since 1994 with France tagging along second in popularity.

Holidays abroad have increased rapidly from 6.7 million in 1971 to 66.4 million in 2005. Most holidays abroad are taken in July and August, this is because of the summer holidays for children from school, and these start approximately in late July and end at the start of September.

Tourism is an industry that provides services to tourists who are travelling away from their home, because so many people go on holiday each year there are so many jobs created in the country that is being visited, these include waitresses, hotel manager, pilots, travel agents, tour operators and sports and fitness. There are also many jobs created at the airport as the airports are becoming bigger and bigger because of the increased amount of people going abroad. All the people working in the travel and tourism industry work towards providing the best possible holidays and shorts breaks for the public. Patterns of tourism have changed over the years, more people go on holiday because during 1938, The Holiday with pay act was introduced, and this made it a legal requirement for employers to provide holidays with pay for their employees. Since the holiday with pay act was introduced people were going on holidays in masses, this made Blackpool and Margate a very popular destination for the working class where as the middle classes preferred the more desirable beaches of Bournemouth and Eastbourne.

Travel and tourism grew more popular from the 1960’s and onwards, this was mainly because of technological advances. Modern technology was improving further and further which meant the public could use faster and larger aircrafts, due to the improved transport network and the newly developed computerised booking system it became easier for people to book their holidays and tickets.

Because changes in leisure time and income people were working fewer hours and most of them were entitled to a minimum of four weeks paid annual leave. I picked up this information during class while the teacher was explaining about holidays and changes in leisure time.

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More people were taking holidays because earning had increased which lead to more people being able to afford holidays. Holidays were becoming cheaper as a result of increased volume of sales and advances in modern technology meaning that costs could be reduced because people had more time off work and increased earning it meant that they could take more than the usual week 1 holiday per year, this was because they had extra money left over that could be spent, people having so much spare time and with nothing to do people decided to take several holidays each year. ...

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