Trends in Travel

1
Trends in Travel Tourism
2
The Tourism Revolution

• Every day in 2000, approximately 1.8 million
  people worldwide travelled outside their homes
• On average, 1000 was spent on accomodations,
  meals, entertainment and shopping

3
The Tourism Revolution

• Tourism receipts is a measure of how much money
  was spent by the traveller at the travelling
  location
• In 2000, worldwide tourism reciepts totalled more
  than 700 billion
• The number of domestic travellers was 10 times
  higher than the number of international travellers

4
The Tourism Revolution

• The Tourism Revolution is a relatively new
  phenomenon. It began at the turn of the 20th
  century
• It took dramatic economic, social, and
  technological changes to make tourism available
  to a much larger population

5
The Tourism Revolution

• New Labour laws
• More paid vacation time available to workers
• Middle class had more disposable income
• 80 of the industrialized worlds population
  receive at least 3 weeks off with pay

6
The Tourism Revolution

• Technological changes
• Improved railway networks at the turn of the 20th
  century
• Increased usage of automobiles
• 1920s increase in tourists to
• Niagara Falls
• 1930s increase in long-range
• trips (to Florida or South Carolina
• for example)

7
Mass Tourism

• The movement of large numbers of people to
  specialized tourist locations
• Examples Resort towns, theme parks, tourism
  business districts

8
(No Transcript)
9
(No Transcript)
10
(No Transcript)
11
(No Transcript)
12
(No Transcript)
13
(No Transcript)
14
(No Transcript)
15
(No Transcript)
16
Package Vacations

• In the 1960s 1970s package vacation deals
  became popular
• Commercial holiday companies offer a package
  vacation deal where they make travel
  arrangements, transportation, accommodations,
  meals and entertainment

17
(No Transcript)