TOURISM

Tourism

Tourism

A global business

Like other major industries, tourism is considered as a growing industry worldwide. Today it is common for people to cross the globe in search of an exotic paradise for shopping, attending a conference, play golf, participate in a tournament sports, betting in a casino, visit a theme park, relax in a spa or be medical or cosmetic surgery in a five-star hospital. Tourist can meet their needs and desires in the same for fast food chains, supermarkets and clothing stores that are offering exciting offers to tourist. (Austin 2008, 76)

Tourism is truly a global business that makes everything good on earth. Most travelers would not want to be aware that they are fueling a multibillion-dollar industry and contributing to unsustainable patterns of consumption and production. And there is little awareness that they are the ones who pay the social and environmental costs. The latest World Tourism Barometer, published by the World Tourism Organization (WTO) United Nations indicates that international arrivals amounted to about nine billion by the end of 2007, thus continuing the steady growth experienced in recent years. It identifies the Asia-Pacific region as the engine behind the growth of world tourism, in which China and India represent the fastest growing markets. (Cooper, 2005, 45)

According to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), travel and tourism now employ approximately two hundred thirty-one million people and generate more than 10.4 percent of world GDP. The Third World countries share many hopes in tourism. Third world countries are the ones who have to take serious steps to attract tourist to their countries. There is no doubt that tourism has many effects on the travel destination, its people and its landscape with it. These effects are particularly evident in third world countries, which have to contend with extreme humanitarian, economic and structural problems. From the many consequences of tourism they also have to consider the economic and spatial effects in more detail. Here the focus should be on the implications for local people, how are the employment effects of tourism, the changes in the structure of the local economic fabric? And what effects result from changing room measures for the people in the countries visited?

Tourism Jobs in Third World

Tourism is a growing industry around the world. If we talk about tourism job opportunities in third world or developing countries we come to a conclusion that tourism does not present career opportunities. People do not peruse tourism as their bread and butter because most of the tourist do not come to third world countries for vacations and sight seeing. In fact people prefer western countries to spend their vacations; this is why tourism is not considered as a go option to peruse as a career in third world countries. Though there are people who visits these countries to explore the ancient monuments but the quantity of such people is very low. Another draw back of third world tourism is the high probability of terror ...