The fesibility study of development a route to uk

The Feasibility Study of Development of Tourism Industry in the UK

The Internet as a communication medium and market space is growing at an unprecedented rate . As of August 1999 , some 215 million people have access to the Internet , a leap from the 133 million estimated to be online one year earlier and a fivefold increase from 40 million in 1995 Of the 215 million , 57 are English language users , while 26 access the Internet using European languages (excluding English (Bygrave 2002 . It is widely believed that Berners-Lee 's development of the World

Wide Web ' in 1989 was key to opening up the Internet as a global and easily accessible information space , accompanied by a new vocabulary : HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP Uniform Resource Locator (URL HyperText Markup Language (HTML web site and web page . By April 1998 , there were an estimated 320 million web pages , a figure that stands in stark contrast to Schwartz 's estimate of 10 million web pages approximately one year earlier , in his assessment of the economic importance of the World Wide Web . Other studies suggest that the number of web sites is doubling in under six months , a slow down from doubling every three months back in 1994 . With little or no regulatory control and low economic barriers to entry , new Internet-based businesses appear like weeds in a garden , but risks are high as the technology continues to develop apace and in unforeseeable ways , and entrepreneurs push the frontier of novel business approaches . This report seeks to redress this situation by undertaking a feasibility study of a project of the Internet-based tourism . Many of the Internet-based tourism organisations include traditional travel agents , tour operators , national tourist offices , airlines , hotels . However , alongside these traditional providers are other operators unique to the Internet . The aim here is to identify and analyse the ways that these novel forms of business organisation - Internet businesses - are contributing to the evolution of the competitive e-commerce landscape of the tourism sector in the UK By way of contextualising the enquiry and analysis , the study briefly reviews the shifting socio-economic ground of tourism and information and communication technology (ICT , with an emphasis on the UK . The methodological approach section presents the research method underpinning the enquiry . The findings and analysis section shows the emergence of new models of enterprise , relying on co-operation alongside competition . Heritage is also shown to be very influential even in this new online environment . The characteristics of the market area include general s of the UK . These comments consider the geographic area , how it evolved , its strengths and its weaknesses . The actual area is described and supported by specific research of economic indicators such as population , effective buying income , transportation , and . An evaluation includes an examination of both the primary and the secondary competition . The competition and demand analysis uses the information gained in the prior sections to determine the projected occupancy and average daily rate of the new project . It also takes into account other projects that may...