Globalization and Tourism

Tourism is one of the most international industries. Globalisation is the gradual forging of links between groups and societies until they finally reach around the globe in several directions (Smith, D,2006). Globalization is one of the serious challenges facing managers today. It is critical to develop services that are able to satisfy a highly diverse customer base (Ueltschy et al., 2007) Now to keep up with the rising levels of globalization in the hotel industry, there’s a need to understand not only the positive, but also the negative impacts of globalisation. I’ll also talk about the growth and rise of one of the most respected brands in the hospitality industry - the Hilton Hotels. Throughout the evolution of this famous organization, the Hilton has

Gillian Dale (2010). Travel and Tourism level 3 Book 1. Oxford: Pearson Education Limited. 122-124.

One of the things that the globalization of the world is often credited to is the continual mass movement of people. Globalization refers to the process of the world becoming increasingly integrated with different types of ideas, commodities, and aspects of culture. Whether globalization creates a more diverse world, or if it actually produces a flat world, as Thomas L. Friedman argues for example, is a topic of frequent debate. With the modern innovations made in regards to enhancing traveling methods, touring exotic places and other countries has become a popular industry all over the world. These cases of global tourism provide an enriched environment that involves the interaction of different cultures and generates new processes and vehicles of understanding culture.

The attitudes of Turkey is most often described as the bridge between the east and the west. Turks have incorporated things into their lifestyle from Europe and Asia. They are also very patriotic and have developed a unique country. The people are very proud of the achievements of the modern state. They are also proud of the accomplishments of their ancestors. The clothing in Turkey are a little bit from Europe and it is most popular with kids. And muslim women have to wear scarves around their

Summary: Although the numbers can be deceiving, Turkey is a very diverse country with a population of 75 million. Turkey’s population of 75 million is very well educated, in this country it is customary to go to 4 years of elementary school, 4 years of middle school, and 4 years of high school. Although 98% of that 75 million (73,500,000) practices the Islamic religion, they all come from different backgrounds. You can tell that because of the very diverse range of languages spoken throughout the country. 75% of the population speaks Turkish, The second most spoken language is Kurdish and third most is Arabic. The most popular foreign languages are 17% English, German 5% and French 3%. They may have a lot of English Speakers because Turkey and U.S. are allies and are on good terms with each other. Remember that all of these factors will lead to cultural differences. In Turkey you greet someone by shaking their hand or if they are a friend you give them a light hug and place a kiss on their cheek. These are some ways that Turkish people show respect for one another. These are all factors of why people would want to live here and why this country has a total population of about 75

Britain has been over the news due to the British exit the European Union, which this event is known as Brexit (Hunt, 2016). This decision brought a large impact on every country in Britain, but the Britain has not started negotiate with European Union about adapting regulations to minimize their negative consequences. Before people can list potential impacts of Brexit on Britain’s tourism, it is important for people to understand how well the Britain was doing in the tourism industry. In addition, it is important to analyze and understand what type of tourism impacts on Britain. So, people would know how Brexit will change its policy and what impacts will bring to their current life. It will provide an idea of how the changes of regulations will impact different countries and the region. Thus, it provides an understanding of how tourism helps to develop the Britain in terms of environmental impacts, socio-cultural impacts, and economic impacts.

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

Culture is a way of life for a group of people, which includes their behaviors, beliefs, and values that are accepted and passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next. When discussing Turkey’s way of life, it is like a cradle of cultures and civilizations, which connect Europe and Asia (TCF – Turkish Cultural Foundation, n.d.). Since the beginning of history, Anatolia, well known as one the earliest settlements, has continued to flourish with the migration of various tribes and accumulated a large cultural heritage through a line of succeeding empires and civilizations. Many empires ranging from the Sumerians to the Hittites, the Lydian is to the Byzantines, and the Seljuk’s to the Ottomans once thrived and expired within the borders of Turkey. Today, Turkey’s population consists of approximately 81,619,392 with a growing rate of 1.12%. Turkey’s ethnic groups consist of 70-75% Turkish, 18% Kurdish, and 7-12% other minorities. Their main religion is Muslim which makes up 99.8% of the religious population, and the other 0.2% are

Globalization has affected the world in many different ways, including cultural exchange, language development, and information diffusion, along with worldwide economic and financial growth. Here we wish to analyse the costs and benefits of globalisation to the Republic of Turkey. More specifically, we will look at the economic and business impacts globalisation has made on Turkey and its current position with regard to the world economy.

Some experts, nevertheless, analysed the adverse impacts of FDI on tourism on the environment. Perrin (2001) showed how GATS has significantly increased FDI in tourism. Putting Belek, Turkey as a case study, the increase of FDI has been followed by over-concentration in key areas of activity and primary locations, leading to the exploitation of other resources in the region. Specifically, the constructions of

The significance of tourism in the Isle of Man began when sea-bathing first came into fashion, benefiting lots of seaside places such as the ‘Holiday Isle’. Tourism had a social, cultural and economic impact on the Island, and the development of it; creating more jobs which in turn resulted in an improvement in the economy. A growth in population and visitors to the island coincided with the rise in crime, a more mixed community and a change in infrastructure. Tourism also put the Isle of Man on the map and made it popular with lots of people especially from the North of England. This was due to the Industrial Revolution and Steam Packet making it an easy, accessible and cheap place to visit. This essay will assess how tourism brought change to the island and the effect of those changes. The impact will be measured by the immediate impact on the island, how many people it affected and if it left a legacy for the Island today.

From a differing perspective, there are also those who see the presumed economic benefits of globalization and tourism as being less than optimal for communities and individuals living in still-developing and post-colonial regions. Bowen, Zubair, and Altinay quote, “Moreover, Erisman (1983), in the West Indies, extends the notion of economic dependency to cultural dependency, in which the hosts perceive their own culture as subservient to the dominant tourist norms and values, and in which sociocultural integrity is lost.” The prior statement once again suggests that intrinsically, in developing regions, there is an economic dependence on CHT. Due to the economic dependence that exists within these regions, some hosts may feel as though their culture is subdued by dominant forces within tourism and CHT. As mentioned before, culture has the potential to be redefined through tourist norms and expectations.

The suspension of chartered holidays to Turkey caused great effect on the Turkish economy. In 2014, a year pre-incident, tourists from Russia made up around 12.2% of the 37 million tourist arrivals to Turkey, making up 0.3%-0.4% of its GDP, (Bilgic-Alpaslan et al, 2015). However post incident, the flow of Russian tourists to Turkey declined from 3.6 million in 2015 to less than 1 million in the following year (Perlman, 2017) and as tourism is a key sector in the contribution to Turkey’s economy it meant that it had risked losing $3.5 billion dollars annual income from Russian tourists. The negative change in arrivals can be seen in the diagram below, (figures from (Lowen, 2016).

The culture of my country, Turkey, combines an extremely diverse, as well as, a heterogeneous set of elements that have been derived from the various cultures of the Caucasian, Central Asian, Eastern European and Eastern Mediterranean (West Asian) traditions. The majority of these traditions were originally brought together by the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire is a multi-ethnic and a multi-religious state. During the early years of the republic, the government invested a really large amount of resources into fine arts such as architecture, paintings and sculpture. This was done as both a process of modernization and of creating a cultural identity. Due to the different historical factors defining the Turkish identity, the culture of Turkey combines clear efforts of modernization and Westernization undertaken in varying degrees since the 1800’s, with a simultaneous desire to maintain traditional religion, as well as, historical values.

The Travel and Tourism industry is still one of the largest single businesses in world commerce and its importance is widely recognized. The tourism industry is now one of the largest sectors earning foreign exchange. In the face of many benefits, many countries have started assigning due weight age to the tourism industry in their national development agenda. Tourism is an industry that operates on a massively broad scale: it embraces activities ranging from the smallest sea-side hotel; to air-lines, multi-national hotel chains and major international tour operators. Originally, non-traditional industries such as tourism emerged as a solution to strike a balance between ecology and industry