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Travel & Tourism

Travel & Tourism. Tourism Definitions. Tourist : people traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes

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Travel & Tourism

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  1. Travel & Tourism

  2. Tourism Definitions • Tourist: people traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes • Passport: passport use goes back to 12th Century Europe when citizens of neutral countries carried passport letters to allow safe travel through countries especially during a war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism#International_tourism_expenditures http://ecommons.txstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1310&context=arp

  3. Careers in tourism • Travel Agents • Tour guides • Translators • Hotel Staff • Historians • Graphic Designers (design promotional materials) • Transportation (pilots, sailors, conductors, etc) • Program Directors (cruise ships/resorts) • Entertainers • Writers/Bloggers

  4. What events have caused travel & tourism to change? • Technology • Cars • Trains • Buses • Airplanes • Internet • Diplomacy • Safety in other countries • NATO • Health Care • Vaccines • Epidemics • Business • Push towards global • Global offices

  5. 1700’s • 1800’s • 1900’s • 1920’s • 1930’s • 1940’s • 1950’s • 1960’s • 1970’s • 1980’s • 1990’s • 2000’s How has travel changed in the U.S.?

  6. How has travel changed Recently? • Consolidation of traditional tourism destinations, like those in Western Europe and North America • Geographical expansion & diversification of destinations • Tourism has become a major player in the economy of developing countries. • New Ideas, Restrictions, Concepts • Destination Hotels • Jumbo Jets • Frequent Flier Miles • TSA & Flight Restrictions • Destination Weddings http://step.unwto.org/en/content/tourism-and-poverty-alleviation-1

  7. Travel Industry Statistics • The contribution of tourism to economic activity worldwide is estimated at some 5%.  • Tourism's contribution to employment is 6-7% of the overall number of jobs worldwide (direct and indirect). • From 1950 to 2010, international tourism arrivals expanded at an annual rate of ‎‎6.2%, growing from 25 million to 940 million.‎ • The income generated by these arrivals grew at an even stronger rate reaching around ‎US$ 919 billion in 2010.‎ • While in 1950 the top 15 destinations absorbed 88% of international arrivals, in ‎‎1970 the proportion was 75% and 55% in 2010, reflecting the ‎emergence of new destinations, many of them in developing countries.‎ • As growth has been particularly fast in the world's emerging regions, the share in international tourist arrivals received by emerging and developing countries has steadily risen, from 32% in 1990 to 47% in 2010. http://unwto.org/

  8. What do you think the future holds for tourism & Travel?

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