Sunday 18 January 2009

TOURISM IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION


Globalization as a megatrend is changing the nature of international tourism:
-expansinon and diversification of travel motivations and expectation
-labour mobility (people travel to different countries to manage properties and systems)
-increse in information and communication technologies (internet: people can chose touristic destination looking at pictures and videos, last-minute offerts give the opportunity for short and cheap week-end)
-increse in travel system technology (easier acessibility of the destination)
-shopping and commercial fcilities
-multi-cultural environment (cultural differencoes between tourist and local people play an important role in the choice of a holiday destination)
-level of economic development in the destination, in paticularly if it's a under-developed country (the majority of tourist's money goes to travel agency that usually has its main office in the departure country)

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