1 more competition, which leads to no 2
2 cheaper airfares
3 prospering economies have people with more money to spend on luxuries
4 modern living is more stressfull, people work longer and more stress = vacation!
5 everythings cheaper which affects companies overheads.
Social/Economic Changes in Technology Product Development
Increase in car ownership
Increase in leisure time:
• holiday entitlement
• shorter working week
• early retirement with pensions
• ageing population
Greater wealth:
• larger incomes
• less children
• Two wage-earner families
Motorways
Jet aircraft
Computer reservation systems
internet on-line booking
Package holidays
Theme Parks
Activity holidays
Weekend breaks
Ecotourism
high-tech and tourism industries.
The tourism industry has become more inclusive and global. Air travel has made it possible for people to visit different regions much faster and easily.
With development of infrastructure, growth in tourism in the past 30 years has been phenomenal. Every country has tried to project their trourist destinations with attractive packages before the overseas tourists. Since they pay in foreign currency, tourism play an important role as foreign exchange earner of a country. Arranging trained guides, safety personnel,hotel accomodation etc. are the boosters in growth of tourism for the coming decades.
The travel industry has over the years grown to become one of the most important in the world. Some sectors in this industry include hospitality, tourism, and transport.
Lanzarote hotels and tourism has been in business for more than 40 years. Tourism is the mainstay of the island's economy for the last 40 years. Agriculture was and is the only other form of industry for the island.
Tourism as a service industry comprises of several allied activities which together produce the tourism product. Involved in the tourism product are three major sub-industries. They are: -1. Tour operators and travel agents.2. Accommodation sector (hotel and catering) and3. Passenger accommodation.Also, the following points justify the nature of tourism as a service industry-1. Tourism accounts for nearly 6% of world trade.2. Bulk of tourism business is located in Europe and North America., with 1/8 of the market being shared between the other regions.3. The highest growth rate in tourism in recent years has been in the third world.4. Tourism, like most pure services, because of the character of inseparability, exemplifies a product, which cannot be sampled before purchase; the prospective consumers have to travel to a foreign destination in order to consume the product.5. The major players in the tourism market include a number of intermediary companies. Some of them transnational in character, some of them exhibit vertical integration, both backward and forward, acquiring interests in all major sectors of this service industry.
There has been growing interest in recent years about the scope of tourism. In response to this demand for information, Statistics Canada has developed a Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) which provides some answers to questions such as: Which industries constitute 'the tourism industry'? What are the industry's gross domestic product (GDP) and employment rates? And what is the extent of tourism-related expenditures? source: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?catno=13-604-MIB1994031&lang=eng
Tourism has changed in the past 50 years by 35% and is still on the increase.
As the industry progressed past the mid-1970s, when it was mired for several years in a global recession, its growth during the 1980s continued at a moderate rate.
tourism has changed considerably in the last 30 years . Now people have more income to spend
Tourism has developed significantly over the past 100 years. Today, there are certain towns and countries whose economy is based on tourism.
I don't think so. For the last ten years, sales engineer jobs could be considered a growth industry because there are more merchandises need to participate international trade. But for now, as technology developed so fast, the demand for sales engineer are declined.