Trends and factors are currently affecting the travel and tourism industry every day for example, booking on the internet, teletext and phoning call centre's to book their holidays and also growth and expansion in UK regional airports and more people travelling alone on holiday for example, visiting relatives.(merit)
P5, M2 met Trends and Factors:
Flexibility of booking holidays
Growth of regional airports
More independent travellers
Natural disasters
Recession
Epidemics/Pandemics
AJW
P5, M2 met Trends and Factors:
Flexibility of booking holidays
Growth of regional airports
More independent travellers
Natural disasters
Recession
Epidemics/Pandemics
AJW
Greater flexibility of booking –internet, teletext, call centres(TREND)
Mr Harrold, newspaper writer said 'these key areas are
changing people’s everyday lives and travel companies must consider how to
develop their own mobile offerings and to tailor holiday offerings to different
types of families'. Booking over the internet, teletext and through call centres
makes it possible to do in your own time 24hours a day, its easier and quicker
for most people, and also a lot cheaper than if you was to book in a travel
agents. This would affect the travel and tourism industry as more and more
people are using the internet rather than going into travel agents in which
travel agents will be losing money and in the future they most probably won’t
be a lot of travel agents around. This would also save the industry money if
the travel agents shut down as most people just use the online travel agents.
Tour Operators are also selling holidays directly to customers and Thomas Cook is planning to shut a lot of High Street agencies, this maeans that a lot of staff will be mad redundant.
source- travel mole.
Tour Operators are also selling holidays directly to customers and Thomas Cook is planning to shut a lot of High Street agencies, this maeans that a lot of staff will be mad redundant.
source- travel mole.
Growth and expansion of regional airports(TREND)
The growth of regional airports in the UK has increased as little airports start off with very low prices for example, to land the aircraft and for it to be parked up on the tarmac, and with low prices airlines are more likely to use these such as easy jet as its a low cost airline this helps the airport expand as more and more people would choose to fly from there. In the past 10 years all airports in the UK are major airports and have expanded.
figures released by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) show that the number of passengers using regional airports in the UK rose to 98 million in 2006 - up from 95 million in 2005. In Manchester airport per day around 850 planes land and take-off which are probably mostly charter flights which take-off on a certain day at a certain time every day or week. this will affect the travel industry as more and more people are taking flights as there a more airports for example if there was not an airport in Manchester fewer people would travel as they don’t want to travel far to regional airports. With the expansion of airports more planes can land as there’s more space so that gives us more opportunities and gives people better services as the airports have grown.
figures released by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) show that the number of passengers using regional airports in the UK rose to 98 million in 2006 - up from 95 million in 2005. In Manchester airport per day around 850 planes land and take-off which are probably mostly charter flights which take-off on a certain day at a certain time every day or week. this will affect the travel industry as more and more people are taking flights as there a more airports for example if there was not an airport in Manchester fewer people would travel as they don’t want to travel far to regional airports. With the expansion of airports more planes can land as there’s more space so that gives us more opportunities and gives people better services as the airports have grown.
More independent travellers(TREND)
Nowadays independent travelling is becoming more and more common as people use the internet in the search of cheaper holidays, organising your
lights and accommodation separately is all well and good so long as everything runs smoothly. There are more independent travellers recently as its a lot easier, quicker and cheaper to book your own accommodation, flights and ancillaries, the only bad thing is that if you book them separately you are not covered for things like the ash cloud unlike if you was to book a package holiday. More independent travellers go on long-haul flights for things like business trips. This will affect the travel industry as more and more people are travelling independently for things like business trips and trips for example mountain biking, in which tour operators will lose money as people are more likely to book the trips and excursions separately which won’t be ATOL
protected.
lights and accommodation separately is all well and good so long as everything runs smoothly. There are more independent travellers recently as its a lot easier, quicker and cheaper to book your own accommodation, flights and ancillaries, the only bad thing is that if you book them separately you are not covered for things like the ash cloud unlike if you was to book a package holiday. More independent travellers go on long-haul flights for things like business trips. This will affect the travel industry as more and more people are travelling independently for things like business trips and trips for example mountain biking, in which tour operators will lose money as people are more likely to book the trips and excursions separately which won’t be ATOL
protected.
Natural disasters(FACTORS)
There are many natural disasters that can affect us such as, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, tornados, and flooding. Natural disasters have a major effect on the travel industry for example Eyjafjallajökull a volcano which erupted on the 14th April 2010 which made all flights in Europe at a huge standstill " Even though it was a relatively small volcanic eruption, it caused enormous disruption to air travel across western and northern Europe over an initial period of six days in April 2010" but although the airspace was closed tourism was still bringing money into the tourism industry as people still needed somewhere to stay, food and drink,
entertainment etc. If you booked a package holiday you wouldn’t have to pay any extra money to stay at the hotel whilst the airspace was closed, but if you booked separately you would have had to pay more to book another room but claimed it back on insurance if you had it. This will affect the travel industry as they lose massive amounts of money when a natural disaster happens for example no planes in Europe would leave the ground for 6 days through the ash cloud in which is costing the airlines masses amount of money as they have to pay to on the ground and have to put all their customers that are stranded in accommodations, in which sometimes puts people off traveling.
entertainment etc. If you booked a package holiday you wouldn’t have to pay any extra money to stay at the hotel whilst the airspace was closed, but if you booked separately you would have had to pay more to book another room but claimed it back on insurance if you had it. This will affect the travel industry as they lose massive amounts of money when a natural disaster happens for example no planes in Europe would leave the ground for 6 days through the ash cloud in which is costing the airlines masses amount of money as they have to pay to on the ground and have to put all their customers that are stranded in accommodations, in which sometimes puts people off traveling.
Cost of travel and the Recession(FACTORS)
The cost of travel recently is increasing as the UK is in a recession in which the UK's economy has not a lot of money and all the prices have risen and people are not getting as much money as they used to, people recently are only having a holiday abroad once a year as family’s are getting less money than they used to for example in 2007 family’s generally took 2 or more holidays whether it was domestic or outbound. This will affect the industry
as more and more people are only taking holidays once a year in which the
industry will be losing money through the recession in which before the
recession people usually took 2 or more trips which would have brought lots of money in, Also it has a positive effect on domestic tourists as there more likely to go on holiday in the UK.
as more and more people are only taking holidays once a year in which the
industry will be losing money through the recession in which before the
recession people usually took 2 or more trips which would have brought lots of money in, Also it has a positive effect on domestic tourists as there more likely to go on holiday in the UK.
Epidemics and Panedemics(FACTORS)
A pandemic covers a much wider area often worldwide, a Pandemic also infects many more people than an epidemic. There has been plenty of pandemics over the years for example plague, hiv/aids, black death, cholera etc.. For example in 2009 when swine flu hit the UK ' Outbreaks of flu tend to follow certain patterns. Every year, the number of flu cases rise during winter - this is seasonal flu. If a lot of people are affected, it may be said to be an epidemic. About one per cent of those affected are likely to die, usually owing to complications such as a secondary bacterial Infection of the lungs.'
An epidemic is when the number of people who become infected rises well beyond what is expected within a country or a part of a country. When the infection takes place in several countries at the same time it then starts turning into a pandemic, and rises well beyond what is expected within a country or part of the country. However this would stop people from wanting to travel to places that are affected by swine flu in which the tourism industry would lose a lot of money as people was cancelling trips and holidays in the places that was infected and people wouldn’t book holidays there in which the industry would be losing
money.
An epidemic is when the number of people who become infected rises well beyond what is expected within a country or a part of a country. When the infection takes place in several countries at the same time it then starts turning into a pandemic, and rises well beyond what is expected within a country or part of the country. However this would stop people from wanting to travel to places that are affected by swine flu in which the tourism industry would lose a lot of money as people was cancelling trips and holidays in the places that was infected and people wouldn’t book holidays there in which the industry would be losing
money.