This research focuses on the tourism sector in Libya. The main aim of research is to find out how the tourism opportunities got affected in Libya after the devastating conflict and what the future of Libyan tourism is. The paper focuses upon the deep study for the topic also found the economic impact of tourism. The affect of government policy on tourism has also been discussed.
However, tourism gets defined as those friendly tourist activities with the natural, cultural and social and community values, which allows you to enjoy a positive exchange of experience among residents and visitors, where the relationship between tourists and the community is fair and benefits the activity gets distributed fairly, and where visitors have a truly participatory attitude in their travel experience. Tourism is fundamental for the economy of various regions, like Thailand. However, tourism involves attracting foreign exchange; it is the only means of economic development for some nations. It provides an opportunity for development, employment marketing and sale of local goods etc. It also helps in creating service industries, which are crucial for the development of a region (Mitchell, 2009, 100-110).
Many evolving nations like the overview of tourism as a vehicle for economic development, granted its promise to profit from foreign exchange, decrease earnings and paid work disparities, reinforce linkages amidst financial parts and assist to alleviate poverty. The dispute differing policy maker is to have a broader viewpoint and better comprehending, that there can be both affirmative and contradictory consequences from tourism development. Tourism, in fact, has a number of features that make it an activity to be considered in the development process, so that its eco proper management can generate a series of positive effects on economic development in any territory. Thus, tourism's development and planning of further improving is very essential for all the countries, especially those whose GDP principally rely on the amount tourism that take place in the country. Tourism sector is an important sector for economy of Libya. People travel to several tourist locations for various reasons. Thus, Libya is a country of raw and unique beauty and people enjoy visiting Libya. Moreover, Libya is full of ancient and beautiful monument to attract the visitors (Taylor, 1994, 9).
Tourism used to contributes a major chunk to number of economies. Libyan culture is a rich culture and the ethnic population is mixed. People go to a different part of the world for education, for a job and vacation (Sharpley, 1997, 231). The tourism sector of any economy has foremost importance and through this research tourism sector will get analyzed properly and give more accurate results (Selby, 1996, 287). However, there are six definitions of tourism found from academic resources like journal article and textbooks. In all these definitions, the pros and cons of tourism got discussed in detail. The six definitions are discussed below.
However, the aspects of leisure time behaviour and its consequence because of temporary trips away from the home environment and ...