Investigating travel and tourism

Introduction

The travel and tourism industry is one of the faster growing industries in the world.  This shows due to amount of employment this trade has created by the year 2007 there will be another 300,000 jobs created.  This does not only affect holiday resorts abroad or in places such as Cornwall or Blackpool.  Even in our hometown Bristol 1 in 10 people work within this industry.  This has a massive economic impact on the destinations that are visited.

Tourism can be defined as people taking short-term break away from their home communities where they live and work. Which will include their activities during their trip this will include travel and day visitors (travel means the form transport used getting to the destination and on the actual holiday itself such as car hire and aeroplane).

People travel many different reasons, which can be placed within 3 groups either for business, leisure or visiting friends or family. We are then ale to categorise these people depending on the length they stay.

 

  • Tourists – these are people who stay away from their communities for one or more nights.
  • Day visitors – these people will return to their homes after spending they day within a destination such as Alton towers.

        Tourists are placed in three categories which is dependant on where they live, these are:

  • Inbound-overseas visitors visiting the UK
  • Outbound-UK residents visiting countries abroad
  • Domestic-UK residents taking day trips or holidays in the UK

 

Within this portfolio there will be two sections part one will contain the reasons why the post war developments have supported the growth in the tourism industry, I will investigate the scale in which it has grown and what significance it has had.  I will also be looking at the structure and the components of the tourism industry.  I will do this by examining, evaluating, and analysing each factor.

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        Within the second section, I will be investigating the nature and the range of employment within the tourism industry.  I will then identify a job related to tourism that will match my interests and abilities.

        The growth and developments within the travel and tourism industry since the 1950’s has been influenced by four main factors these have been combined to generate the increase in the consumer tastes and demands of the facilities and services created especially for their needs. These factors are considered both in the UK and abroad, these are:

  • Socio-economic conditions
  • Developing technology
  • Product development ...

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