Globalisation

SECTION TWO

The Tourism and Travel Domain

Task C: Globalisation

Facts about Globalisation in Tourism

[Extract 12]

* Tourism is an industry that is highly competitive, globalised and dominated by large international companies such as Hilton, TUI, Thomas Cook, First choice or My Travel.

* The Phenomenon Globalisation is not new in today world.

* Globalisation primary has the effect to exploit recourses. These recourses might be people, land, energy or cultures

* In the undeveloped countries such as Thailand, Philippines, Maldives, Malaysia Globalisation has the greatest impact.

Negative effects of Globalisation

[Extract 13]

Bankrupt of small local firms.

* The world tourist industry is regiert from a few major international tour operators.

* With the full control of the tourism chain they can offer cheaper prices than smaller local companies.

* As a matter of fact local firms which can not compete with the cheap prices of the large international companies the large companies control the tourism market.

* For example in Malaysia, 29 local shops were destroyed to make way for a tourist development project.

[Extract 14]

* 698 million people travelled to a foreign country in 2000, spending more US$ 478 billion

* The reason why undeveloped countries promote itself as a tourism destination is because they expected economic improvement.

* Developed countries have the most urgent need for income, employment and general rise of the standard of living but often rich countries are better able to profit from tourism than poor ones.

* Reasons for that:

 In all-inclusive package tours tourists often stay for their entire stay at the same cruise ship or resort because it provides everything they need. As a matter of fact most of the travellers spending goes back to the airlines, hotels and other international companies, and not to local businesses or workers. For example in Thailand more that 70% of all money spent by tourists ends up leaving Thailand

 Food, drinks and equipment often needs to be imported because local products are often not up to the hotel's or the tourist's standards or the country doesn't have a supplying industry which is needed

Wider gap between rich and poor

[Extract 15]

* The majority of travellers come from the middle class in developed countries and they travel to undeveloped countries to enjoy a holiday in paradise.

* Globalisation contributes to the increasing gab between rich and poor. This leads to instabilities in tourism destinations such as Bali.

* Tourism is the world's biggest industry and employs more than 100 million People worldwide.

* The lack of education and know how about the industry often