Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why has travel and tourism grown so rapidly over the last 50 years?
- Income
- High income
- More money
- Likelihood of becoming a tourist
- People have more disposable income now
- Money for themselves
- Salary rises
- Price of essential goods such as food and clothing has fallen
- Many families have two income earners, rather than one
- They have fewer kids
- Often have a car
- Makes it easier to become tourists
- Greater variety of holidays to choose from
- Afford All-inclusive package holidays
- Leisure time
- There's also a trend to take more than one holiday in a year
- People have paid holidays from work
- On average 3 weeks per year are paid
- People who are retired remain active for longer
- Holiday entitlement
- All-inclusive package holidays
- Technological changes
- Motorways have linked places together
- Quicker way of getting to destination
- Wider range of ways to travel as a tourist - widely available
- Car
- Boat
- Airplane
- More accessible as you can book online and choose more budget options
- Reduced the time it takes to get to different countries
- Budget airlines such as Easyjet and Ryanair have brought prices down and increased traffic volume
- Availability and type of holidays has increased
- Mass tourism and package holidays have opened up markets to huge numbers of people
- Expectations
- Watching television and browsing the internet
- Increases people's expectations