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      • Ecotourism
      • Impacts - Venice
  • Local Case Study - Great White Bear Tours
    • Nature of economic enterprise
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    • Fieldwork: Hudson Bay
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Organisational Factors

Private enterprise - branding, TNCs, vertical and horizontal integration
Organisational developments – Governments have set up national tourist organisations to promote tourism.Tourism in the private sector is characterised  by a wide variety of activities and a range of different types of enterprises (both small and large-scale).

Internationalisation of tourism – tourism has become globalised with advances in technology.
Changing consumer products and markets – Changing social patterns have prompted new tastes in world travel including holidays with an emphasis on action, adventure, fantasy, nostalgia and exotic experiences.

Changes in ownership, decision-making and control
Increasing the scale of production -  the profit motive has encouraged the development of large-scale operations and an increase in the size of the companies involved.
Horizontal integration – expansion within a given sector of the productive activity. E.g. a company buying a competitor.
Vertical integration – brings together within one organization different sectors of the productive activity. E.g. a company buying a supplier.
Transnational operations – many tourist operations become global in the operations. This enables greater market potential and opportunities for expansion.
Data gathering and industry support – Organisations exist to gather data and provide support to tourism operators. These include the WTTC (World Travel and Tourism Council) and WTO (World Travel Organisation).


The rise of China's penny-pinching budget airlines
Coming soon: Superjumbos with no economy seats

Infrastructure

L. Swanson
  • Home
    • Tourism research lesson
    • Essay activity
    • Practice questions
    • Assessment
  • Tourism - Global economic activity
    • Nature
    • Spatial Patterns
    • Future Directions >
      • Research Task - Future Directions
    • Factors Affecting Tourism >
      • Biophysical
      • Ecological
      • Economic
      • Socio-cultural
      • Organisational
      • Technological
      • Political
    • Impacts of Tourism >
      • Social Impacts
      • Economic Impacts
      • Environmental Impacts
      • Ecotourism
      • Impacts - Venice
  • Local Case Study - Great White Bear Tours
    • Nature of economic enterprise
    • Locational factors
    • Ecological dimensions
    • Linkages
    • Effects of global changes
    • Maps and photographs
    • Vocations
    • Fieldwork: Hudson Bay
  • HSIETeachers Home