Travel and Tourism

Travel and Tourism

The travel and tourism industry worldwide has been undergoing a sea change of late due to numerous factors that are correlated to each other . James suggests that meeting customer requirements and performing key business operatives is a collective lineage in this dynamic industry , passed on from the existent trends to the upcoming ones (2006 6 . As more market segmentations are occurring , the earlier popular destinations are slowly but surely becoming redundant or less fashionable . Moreover , the health of this industry , considering its dynamic nature , is to a great

extent determined by global events including political state of affairs , the latest technological advancements and job opportunities . As a matter of fact , this industry has always fed quite a few other sub-industries in some way or the other . Growth and popularity of the hospitality sector in any part of the world has not only drawn in pools of tourists over there , but also accounted for a parallel development of other related service as well as business sectors (Page and Connell 2006 . Cummings et al (1998 : 24 present a data that shows that global tourism is among the very few business excesses to have exercised a telling effect on the economy of the United States of America , fetching yearly revenues worth 17 billion . If one key factor is the modern technological finesse which , in turn , presents new and more lucrative job openings , the other equally important factor involves the growing links between culinary experimentations and tourism . The fact that the...