Travel and Tourism Sector
Travel and Tourism
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The Travel and Tourism Sector
Introduction
The biggest and fastest growing industry in United Kingdom is the tourism industry. The common purpose of the industry is to provide goods and services to the tourists. However, defining tourism is not as simple as it seems to be. It is a complex industry. Tourism includes such activities of people that are carried out during travelling and staying in places, other than their usual environments for less than a year. Tourism can be for business, holiday and other purposes. The word “staying” means that tourist must stay at least one night. Whereas, tourists who visit in the day time contributes a huge amount to the tourists industry as it involves many activities carried out by the tourists during the day time.
Many regions in UK separate the night tourists with the day ones in order to make the statistics. The total value of tourism and travel sectors in UK includes more than £91.8 billion as per the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. This statistics includes most of the domestic visitors rather than visitors who come from outside the country. Tourism is the fastest growing sector in terms of economics because it brings foreign exchange earnings in the country according to the World Tourism Sector.
Tourism also embraces the job opportunities in the country not only in this particular sector but also in the related fields like construction, food etc. Many of the tourism developments occur in developing countries, which brings economic opportunities to the local communities.
Discussion
Early Tourism
The History of Tourism suggests that earlier people use to travel because of the reasons of war, travelling for some religious reasons and for trading. As we came to the third century, ancient Greeks use to travel and visit their gods and visit the temples. The
[Name of the Writer]
[Name of the Institution]
Table of Contents
The Travel and Tourism Sector
Introduction
The biggest and fastest growing industry in United Kingdom is the tourism industry. The common purpose of the industry is to provide goods and services to the tourists. However, defining tourism is not as simple as it seems to be. It is a complex industry. Tourism includes such activities of people that are carried out during travelling and staying in places, other than their usual environments for less than a year. Tourism can be for business, holiday and other purposes. The word “staying” means that tourist must stay at least one night. Whereas, tourists who visit in the day time contributes a huge amount to the tourists industry as it involves many activities carried out by the tourists during the day time.
Many regions in UK separate the night tourists with the day ones in order to make the statistics. The total value of tourism and travel sectors in UK includes more than £91.8 billion as per the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. This statistics includes most of the domestic visitors rather than visitors who come from outside the country. Tourism is the fastest growing sector in terms of economics because it brings foreign exchange earnings in the country according to the World Tourism Sector.
Tourism also embraces the job opportunities in the country not only in this particular sector but also in the related fields like construction, food etc. Many of the tourism developments occur in developing countries, which brings economic opportunities to the local communities.
Discussion
Early Tourism
The History of Tourism suggests that earlier people use to travel because of the reasons of war, travelling for some religious reasons and for trading. As we came to the third century, ancient Greeks use to travel and visit their gods and visit the temples. The
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