A Study of Tourism in Thailand

Tourism has taken a toll on many Native Hawaiians and is a huge human rights issue today. Most Hawaiians dislike tourism greatly due to the selfishness and greediness tourists bring to their home country. The pastor at a small rural church on the island of Kauai, Reverend Kaleo Patterson, has witnessed and dealt with numerous Hawaiians who struggle with the issues of tourism. Numerous vacation resorts that attract tourists have taken over gravesites of Hawaiians that have passed away. Due to this problem ancient Hawaiians have to partake in reburials. Tourism causes destruction to coral reefs and rivers because of mindless pollution. Reverend Patterson has protested and given public hearings in effort to acknowledge her fury on tourism. Tourism has brought an uncontrollable worldwide business that has no sympathy or thoughtfulness for the original people of Hawaii.

The trip to Vietnam from the 16th of November to the 1st of December was an eye-opener to my life as I saw how the locals live and operate daily. This has helped myself gain a new perspective on life. With gaining a new perspective it has helped myself understand and give direction to achieve my future goals and personally help with figuring out a which career path within tourism and hospitality I would like to go down. Over recent years in Vietnam tourism and hospitality impacted the local lives which helped myself understand how they live the way they do. Travelling to diverse cities such as Ho Chi Minh, Hoi An and Halong Bay showed me that Vietnam has different aspects on offer to help myself understand their cultural but also the hospitality and tourism industry. The hospitality and tourism within each city support the history of Vietnam. This increases the experience economy as individual travel for their traditions but also to be educated about Vietnam and their past.

As well as providing opportunities to increase direct expenditure at a destination, they can also contribute substantially to a destination’s range of tourist attractions, facilitate media coverage for the destination, promote awareness of the destination for future visitation and lead to the construction of new facilities and infrastructure. The prominence given to special events by governments and tourism marketing organisations has resulted in some destinations seeking to specialise in the creation and hosting of special events. There is also a trend towards the construction of ‘mega-venues’ catering for conventions, trade shows, art and sporting events.

The society will be terrible and harmful if there are too many crimes including corruption and police bribing in the country (Heidensohn, 1989). Due to the terrible society, we will find it difficult to trust somebody since we cannot know that whether they are ethical or not. All we had better do is avoiding the risk of being exploited by them. What’s more, the reliability of the country will decrease as well, and this will affect economy of the country to be worse. In reality, the reliability of the country is very important because it can be used to measure the quality of the country (Martin & Eroglu, 1993). According to Standard and Poor organization, credit rating agency, Thailand reliability is rated A (Sovereign rating list, 2014). However, unless the policy of bribing concerning the police is progressively reinvented, I am certain that reliability of Thailand will soon decrease since the problem of corruption including police bribing will be worse and continuously impact tourism and economy. Tourism is one of the most important kinds of business in Thailand that contribute people to have more income and occupation (Chancharat, 2011). We can say that the number of unemployed citizens will greatly rise up and economy will be in the crisis if tourism in Thailand does not exist or is inefficiently

The purpose of this report is to analyze how do the most influential international tourism operators like Contiki use their marketing strategies to maintain comparative not only in the traditional tourism market, but more considered in taking strategic positions, and gradually gaining competitive advantage in the emerging markets of organization of tourism.

Planned, organized and executed special events that achieved specific marketing and financial objectives to attract and retain membership

Another aspect of impact of tourism on a country’s economy is that it facilitates the expansion of the market of goods and services. Foreigners come to a country willing to spend money on different goods and services, thus increasing the amounts of sales. This is a great chance for producers and service providers to receive larger profits. This concerns not only hoteliers, tour operators, and souvenir shops owners. Public transportation, retail stores of different kind, restaurants, and cafes benefit from international tourism. Obviously, if these industries are in demand, businesses will be expanding. On the one hand, it means that more money is paid to the budget. On the other hand, profits generated by the owners are spent inside the country, affecting almost all the fields of the

According to CTH Lecture notes (2014) the hospitality industry is one of the largest growing sector in the world and it will be discussed according to the history, characteristic and the importance of the industry as well as the features of the business along with the grading system, the internal and external factors, and the tourism industry is also a large growing sector which provides services such as accommodations, food, etc. The history, characteristics and the importance of the tourism industry will be discussed including the patterns of demands and tourism indicators, with the growth of emerging forms of tourism and the importance of transport, accommodation, attractions and events as well as the deference between tourism

This approach allows the researcher to carry out the research for both practical and theoretical reasons (Maylor and Blackmon, 2005). The main focus on these case studies will be investigating how Maldives, Taiwan and Phuket rebuilt their tourism sector by using destination branding concepts and trying to generalize if the same concepts could be recommended for Haiti. “This approach will allow the researcher to eliminate external sources of variation and look systematically for patterns of action” (ibid: 246). According to Blaikie (2000), this approach is also the most suitable due to the short time and limited budget of the researcher (cited in, ibid 243).

Tourism is often synonymous to traveling for pleasure and education. It is also a business of attracting tourists and providing for their accommodation and entertainment. In many countries, tourism is an industry for earning Inland Revenue and foreign exchange. The many businesses that grow concomitantly with development of tourism include airlines, shipping, hotels and restaurants, finance companies, tour operators, travel agents, car rental firms, caterers and retail establishments and together,

In modern economies, many different types of events are organised and event planning has turned into a profit-driven industry. Over the last 20 years, the events industry has continued to expand. Thanks to structural changes in such economies, there have been increases in leisure time and disposable income, leading to a proliferation of events. The event Industry has had a great positive impact on

Tourism is one of the most exciting and progressive industries in the world. Tourism today is a leisure activity of the masses. People travel to international destinations to break the regular monotony of life. They are mainly attracted by either the scenic beauty of its nature or by fascinating leisure, sports and adventure activities offered by the destination. However, every destination has some internal strengths and weaknesses that either enhance its capacity to attract foreign visitors or diminish it. Similarly the external environment can create various opportunities or exposed to threats as well.

The business sector, which includes conferences, exhibitions, corporate and hospitality travel, make up 25% of total tourism in the UK. This equates to an economic impact of £12 billion pounds and is expected to reach to £16 billion over the next decade, according to RS&M research. Around 20,000 journalists, exhibitors and technicians attended the Labour Party Conference held in Bournemouth International Centre in 1999. Conferences can be very diverse and is described as “An event used by any organisation to meet and exchange views and to open an debate. Although generally not limited in time, conferences are usually of short duration with specific objectives”. Rogers (1998). Exhibitions are a rapidly growing part of the business sector. Research conducted by the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers, suggests that money spent on marketing for exhibitions has increased by 18% over the past ten years. Exhibitions bring suppliers and services together with buyers who are in a particular industry. A survey held by RS&M who interviewed 77 companies found that exhibitions are the most frequently held event (36%), followed by sporting (14%), corporate hospitality (11%), road and trade shows (9%) and lastly product launches (8%).

An event is defined as any public gathering of people for a purpose which might relate to sport-small of large sporting events, business/corporate needs, meetings, conferences, seminars and workshops. Events are staged both for profit, by business, government or community bodies or groups such as awards nights, celebrations and launches. It is important to know where events might be held which include indoors in stadiums, arenas and hotels or outdoors such as on water, parks, in the desert and in the street. Events can be small, local or large that involves many attendees. In the event stage industry there is a range of information that would help you when working in the event industry which includes having the knowledge of relevant

* Marketing– How the promotion of the event has taken place and how the general public are responding to it