Unit 1.3 Trends in travel and tourism

Question 1

What changes global tourism flow?

Answer 1

• Movement between places tourists live and where they travel - Move from tourism generating areas (where tourists orignate from) to tourism receiving areas (areas tourists visit)

Question 2

What are the factors affecting global tourism flow?

Answer 2

-Economic
-Social and demographic
-Technological advances
-Health and security issues

Question 3

Economic changes

Answer 3

-Level of disposable income. The money people have to spend after subtracting certain costs
-Levels of unemployment
-GDP
-Currency exchange rate
-Government investments
-Infrastructural developments (public transportation)

Question 4

Social and demographic changes

Answer 4

-Age
-Family
-Attitudes to tourism impacts

Question 5

Health and security issues

Answer 5

-Disasters
-Disease
-Pollution
-Unrest crime terrorism

Question 6

Technological Advances

Answer 6

-Transport types such as aircraft, trains, ships, cars, buses
-Ticketless travel and biometrics