TOUR OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Tour Operations Management in Travel and Tourism



Tour Operations Management in Travel and Tourism

Assignment 1

Task 1.1 Analyse the effects of current and recent trends and developments on the tour operations industry.

Tourism is most popular for recreational activities in which people get to spend their leisure time on their favourite spots and also travel for business purposes for a restricted period of time. Tourism mainly refers to the travel to different countries but it also involves the domestic travel too in which people travel to different locations that are located in their host country. Tourism has become a major stakeholder in the economy of most of the countries. It can both be trans-national as well as domestic and a country can hugely benefit from the international tourists coming to visit the different locations which can help it in maintaining balance between payments. Any country's major source of income has been tourism over the past many decades and it affects both the countries economically which is clearly evident of its importance

Task 2.1 Assess the stages and timescales involved in developing countries

Sustainable tourism can be defined in its purest form that it is a trade business, in which the activities to make a reduction influence on the natural environment and localized heritage. Tourism is defined as those friendly tourist activities with the natural, cultural and social and community values, which allows one to enjoy a positive exchange of experience among the residents and visitors, where the relationship between tourists and the community is fair and benefits the activity is distributed fairly, and where visitors have a truly participatory attitude in their travel experience (Richards & Hall, 2003).

The most important argument for sustainable tourism development in concerns the point of view and anticipations that all stakeholders, especially government policy makers, have about tourism's assistance at the localized, local and nationwide levels. Many evolving nations like outlook tourism as a vehicle for financial development, granted its promise to profit from foreign exchange, conceive paid work, decrease earnings and paid work disparities, reinforce linkages amidst financial parts and assist to alleviate poverty. The sustainable tourism is a tourism which follows few principals of sustainability. The Brundtland report defined the sustainable tourism as the development that meets the needs of tourists and host regions present, while protecting and enhancing opportunities for the future. Tourism is viewed as a great means of economic stability in places with no other means of economic development. If it is not promoted and developed, it will have an adverse effect on the economy of the country. A sustainable development is essential in order to promote tourism, and hence to increase the GDP of the country. There has been a lot of change in the political, cultural, social and technological development in the environment, which has increased the tourism, and has given the boost to the tourism. It has significantly increased the tourism industry and it mainly because of sustainable development in the ...