Future Tourism

Abstract

Tourism is a booming international trade, a vibrant economic service sector that provides employments in travel, tourism and hospitality sectors, which are one of the most thrilling and pleasing encounters of meeting people from diverse cultural background. Tourism in Emerging Economies is a book that is here to bridge the gap on the vital issues of tourism businesses and practices and destinations. It’s here to provide a comprehensive guide for students, professors, entrepreneurs, and travel and tourism organizations to tourism and its related disciplines on the trends, practices, and case studies covering from historical tourism to contemporary tourism with forecast on future tourism. Today, tourism is a global business that supports many major economy service sectors providing various developments, social awareness and cross-cultural encounters in destinations. This book is written to assist the tourism students, industry staff, academicians, and researchers in the travel and tourism fraternity. It will serve as a comprehensive guide for all English speakers, who already read and write English. This book takes readers through process of comprehending, acquiring, analyzing the tourism developments and new thinking about trends of global tourism industry evolutions and growing complexity. Henceforth, this book will provide strategic ideas on various tourism developments that are applicable by government, private agencies, voluntary sectors, ancillary service providers, and entrepreneurs by being a treasured databank for those businesses, policy makers and entrepreneurs concern with this fragile industry, thus delivers an all-inclusive analysis of existing tourism development. Tourism in Emerging Economies is a book that covers various topics and case studies from the Asian and African perspectives. Each chapter of this book includes intensive researches on tourism development and operations across Africa and Asia written by young pioneers in tourism education, people with both working experiences, travel experiences, and broader philosophies about the global tourism industry’s practicing and operating in destinations. The content of this book shall give students, industry staff and tourism entrepreneurs’ reward of being able to apprehend numerous facts of diverse tourism matters which reflects the ironic practice from rural communities of Africa to well-suited pristine environment of Asia where your travel discoveries touch your heart. It is hoped that this book, Tourism in Emerging Economies, will be able to be used in colleges and universities for academic purposes, as well as a source of reference to graduate students. The book is expected to be an easy reading guide and understandable by carefully following the background information in each chapter. The book is diverse in content, format, and topic. It addresses different forms of global tourism. This is one of the cooperations and touch things by colleagues involving great stakeholders in tourism. Therefore, the presented perspectives are beyond regular textbooks we have read from Western cultures in the libraries. Tourism in Emerging Economies by far is one of the best, original and authentic conscious written books of the last decade. It produces steady reflection treasures of the world tourism industry. Works cover conscious historical tourism operation with perspectives about present tourism has given us an insight into future predictions of the industry. Tourism industry provides job opportunities, promotions of cultural authenticity, and environmental education and protections. This book, Tourism in Emerging Economies, is here to guide you along your road to a successful business. It covers everything from the history of tourism to the present well-structured operations in emerging and developing economies. The content of chapters in this book discusses crucial issues confronting the travel and tourism industry, with achievable outlines, strategies plan, evaluations from some general theories, practices and application of three dimensions socially, economically and environmentally with management structure of maximizing the cultural, social and ecological diversity of destinations and enhance the tourism experience. According to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 8, 12 and 14, tourism highlights our potentials to contribute to economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental preservation (World Tourism Organization and Organization of American States 2018). I hope that this book can be an answer to the growing concepts and doubt about SDGs concepts, criticism and debates on tourism for the third generation.