The Future of Tourism
ABC Radio takes a look at the future of tourism. This link includes the audio of the radio program.
Mega Trends Underpinning Tourism to 2020: An analysis of key drivers for change
This report explores the way in which some key drivers could affect the tourism industry, both international and domestic, to the year 2020. An exploration of these trends allows important change agents, on both the supply side and the demand side of tourism, to be highlighted and discussed, strategies formulated by destination managers, and tourism operators to develop tourism in a sustainable way. While the implications extend to all tourism destinations and operations, the focus is on Australia in particular.
Tomorrow's Tourist: Scenarios and Trends
According to Dr Ian Yeoman, by 2030, China will be the world's largest tourism destination, holidays in Outer Space will be the ultimate luxury experience, extreme Swedish ironing will be an Olympic Sport, embedded technologies will be the norm in future tourists and skiing in the Alps will be no more... So what will this mean for tourism and hospitality education ad the preparation of graduates into the future?
The Tourism 2023 project sets out to help the UK outbound travel and tourism industry understand the challenges it faces and plan for a sustainable future.
Take a look at these videos and how the issues raised will affect tourism and hospitality education.