INTERNATIONAL TOURISM

International Tourism

International Tourism

Tourism is an industry which belongs to the service sector. It provides services which enables people to visit, explore and learn about another country. People are brought to see natural or man-made attractions, sample local cuisine and experience life in a foreign country. Tourism is also a fast growing industry as people are generally more affluent and are able and willing to pay for overseas holidays. People are also more interested in other cultures as different countries are getting closer as globalization is taking place. All these factors lead to a quick growth in tourism. Many developing countries are also developing and expanding the tourism industry as this industry is seems as one of the fastest ways in Pp. 16-19) International security is increasingly understood not as nationalist, competitive security, but as an inclusive, cooperative security for a peaceful world. This, in turn, is required to trim the enormous military expenses caused by past confrontation. Other underlying concerns include the common interest in facilitating global economic interaction, including communication and tourism; the common concern with avoiding environmental deterioration; and other international matters, including the avoidance of terrorism. These, among other factors, generate a concern - partly altruistic in its humanist motivation, and partly self interested - in having a prosperous international environment. We are all aware that tourism is one of the world's fastest growing and oldest industries. With the advent of industrialization people started moving in a large numbers to places away from their usual places of residence and work with a view to seek change. This trend continued until tourism became a great mass phenomenon. This phenomenon is a visible result of the great technological development which had changed the social geography of the world since the ninteenth century. Thomas Cook, the pioneer of organized mass tourism, had stated that "God's earth in all its fullness and beauty is for the people". Travel from the earliest times has held a fascination for mankind. The urge to explore new places within one's own country or outside and seek a change of environment and experience has been there from ancient times. (Castles, S. 2003, 13-34)

Although there have been temporary setbacks in the number of tourist movement in one region or country due to the territorial crisis or disasters, tourism has withstood the change of circumstances in national and international economies better than other sector of the economy. From the culture point of view, tourism establishes contact between visitor and host, between different cultures, between peoples and places. To travel means cross boundaries, visit new places and encounter different cultures is a learning process that leaves the visitors wiser and more tolerant. Therefore tourism contributes to a better understanding between the peoples of the world. It opens the eyes of people so that we can see one another as we are - equal human beings - each person with his or her own unique culture, values, history, traditions and customs.

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