24 May 2008
Factors influencing the growth of tourism
1. Greater affluence and more leisure for an increasing number of people, particularly in the developed countries.
2. The emancipation of the young and the relatively higher wages they possess (when they have no family responsibilities) enabling them to travel.
3. Transport facilities especially air, very much better and cheaper and there is a high rate of car ownership.
4. An enormous growth in international business necessitating travel.
5. Package tours allow people not used to making their own arrangements, to travel with an easy mind and are good value because of bulk buying of transport and hotel accommo dation.
6. Relief from adverse climatic conditions in the home country may be found abroad.
7. Travel has become a status symbol
8. Conferences and business meetings are proliferating.
9. Better education has interested a large section of the public in cultural tourism.
10. World exhibitions and trade fairs have become very popular.
11. Publicity has become more and more aggressive, whetting the appetite of even the most unwilling to travel.
12. Ideological pressure groups (political, cultural, scientific, etc.,) hold more and more an nual conventions etc.,