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Top ten tourism issues for 2015
Monday, 08 Jul, 2014
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Security, sustainability, social issues all make top 10
Gathering information from university discussions, conferences and seminars, tourism documents, Internet, survey information, industry data, books, articles, and publications, utilization of a modified Delphi approach to gather certain research information, and comments from interested colleagues, students, and others – Dr David L Edgell has come up with his annual 10 Important world tourism issues for 2015.
They are:
- Impact on the travel and tourism industry resulting from the global economic slowdown
- Concerns for safety and security remains an important issue for the travel and tourism industry
- Importance of maintaining a destination’s sustainability regarding social, cultural, natural and built resources
- Necessity for increased local/regional/national leadership in tourism policy and strategic planning
- Resolving barriers to travel: visas, fuel price increases, airline/transportation fees, and airline delays
- Educating users about optimizing use of new technologies in the tourism industry
- Understanding the transformative effect that travel and tourism has on global socio-economic progress
- Effect on travel and tourism from natural/manmade disasters and with respect to world political disruptions
- Responding to increased interest in potential long-term consequences of climate change on tourism
- Changes in tourism demand resulting from increased travel by emerging nations
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