Importance Of Tourism Essay

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this assignment is to highlight the importance of tourism and how it has been evolved as the one of the most important sector to contribute in the national economy. How tourism supports the country in financial and social ways and what are the hindrances which tourism is facing in present days. Case study of Pakistan has been taken to show that after having all the potential to be a preferred destination for tourist all over the world but still not able to offer its destinations for promoting tourism in the country.

1. INTRODUCTION

Developing countries and tourism: the combination of many measures to solve economic problems. Tourism always has great impact on the development of the country's economy .As it promotes the exchange of monetary values as well as promotes interconnectedness between different countries. The economic importance of tourism varies from place to place, but a significant contribution to the wealth of many countries can be seen. There are many advantages of tourism but the main are creation of tourism jobs, income generation and foreign exchange. For many countries, tourism is the foremost source of country’s economy.

Over the past 20 years, tourism has emerged as one of the most important and most contributing element of the

Macro trends in tourism

The development of tourism all over the globe in recent decades has been heavily influenced by the development of society as a whole. The rise of the industrialized society curved tourism into a mass leisure activity, while globalization and post modernization have created an increasingly fragmented, individualized and diverse field of tourism supply and demand. According to the OECD (2010), the current growth of tourism is largely a result of increasing globalization, which has strengthened a number of key drivers in international tourism: (Travel & Tourism Economic Impact 2014 World, 2014)

1.2.Growth driver of Tourism:-

Social