Social And Cultural Differences Throughout The World

Travel & Tourism is a vast industry, which is known to provide numerous facilities, to people all around the world. Travel & Tourism is quite imperative, for many economies to survive, since, some of their source of income is dependent on travel and tourism.

While many problems are associated with International tourism, it can still offer some advantages. For one thing, International tourism can open job opportunities for the native citizens. To demonstrate, when tourists visit an area, the vast majority of them don’t have a clue on

A variety of key cultural differences shape the behaviors and attitudes within both the United States and Japan. Key cultural differences as defined by the Hofstede model, such an individualistic society versus a collective society, short term orientation versus long term orientation, as well as direct communication style versus indirect communication style. This paper will focus on the key cultural difference within business communication styles of both. Then, it will conclude with analyzing any adjustments that would need to be made in order to conduct business in Japan.

Over the last 60 years, tourism has benefited from continuous growth and diversification, becoming one of the largest as well as the fastest growing world’s economic sectors. Tourism becomes one of the major categories of global trade in services. Nowadays, 7% of global goods and services exports are contributed by international tourism, and for the last four years, it has grown faster than the general global trade.[ Exports from international tourism rise 4% in 2015, (2016, May 6). Retrieved from http://media.unwto.org/press-release/2016-05-03/exports-international-tourism-rise-4-2015]

Tourism is travel for different reasons such as recreation or leisure or religious or family or business tenacities, generally for a limited duration. The World Tourism Organization expresses tourists as individuals "traveling to and staying in places outside their normal environment for not more than one successive year for leisure, business and other purposes". Tourism has become a widespread global relaxation activity. Tourism can be domestic as well as international. Today, tourism is a key source of income for numerous countries, and marks the economy of both the font and host countries, in certain cases being of dynamic

For any relationship to succeed both parties need patience, tolerance, and understanding. This becomes especially important when individuals come from dissimilar cultural backgrounds. If the individuals take the time to learn about the other’s culture many stereotypes and misconceptions will be eliminated. If they slow down and listen to one another they will likely find that despite their differences they share many basic needs; this can serve as the common ground or a starting point needed for understanding one another. However, if both parties remain staunchly entrenched in their own culturally-based viewpoints confusion and turmoil will

These social impacts affect on the local people of host communities of their direct and indirect association with tourists. Tourists come face to face with the object of exchanging information and ideas. This situation is more important for international understandings. The tourist is mobile, relaxed, free spending; enjoying the leisure and absorbing the experience of being in a different places whereas the local people are stationary and employed in the tourist industry, spend a large portion of the time for needs and desire of visitors. The demonstration effect is also an aspect of the direct social impact of tourism. Tourist influences the behavior of the host population. The local people tend to observe and learn the life style of the richer visitors from affluent societies and try to emulate their way of life. However expansion of tourism, cause cultural commercialization, increase in crime rate, gambling, drug abuse, prostitution is common. Thus impacts of tourism on traditional life styles are important, where these traditions are considered from the basis of the tourism

The barriers between cultures, variations in communication patterns, and the differences amongst society all factor down to one thing, religion. Religion is vastly universal. It encompasses a wide variety of sub-sectors, as it houses many diverse types of religions, each with varying beliefs, ideals, rituals, and languages. Religion is a way of life, it brings people together. It evokes a new way of thinking, feeling, and understanding the complexity of life. The specific role religion plays in an individual 's life is different for everyone. Many people cling to the ideal of being “religious” as a means to justify their behavior and moral compass. However, these means can only begin to be justified once religion occupies a permanent space in the individual’s life. Lauren F. Winner, the author of Girl Meets God, has given religion a permanent place in her life, as she creates a working dynamic that balances her spiritual journey between Judaism and Christianity. Wanting something to believe in, Winner was able to give religion a special distinction in her quest. Her journey encompassed the various notions that Cunningham and Kelsey, authors of the Sacred Quest believed to be most prominent in the successful display of religion amidst a well-rounded spiritual life.

Tourism impacts on people's lives. It is a significant part of my life, of my friends' lives… It is widespread in the globe with very few places left untouched and very few people who have never travelled. So is the tourism sector in need of anthropological research and can anthropological knowledge contribute to tourism management and practices?

The rational thinking by the philosophers and researchers based on the various notes and chronological record of events and detailed notes about the cultural, traditional practices and life style of the people’s of various places left by the priest who played an important role in day to day life of the local people and the personal diaries, notes and communication left behind by the people who travelled around the world which had lots of information about the travelling pattern, food, natural attractions and travelling modes helped researchers to widen the scope of research in the field of tourism and hospitality.

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

The sociocultural aspect of tourism is based on the ideas of globalisation between the various communities around the world. Globalisation is, “A complex web of social processes that

In order to be able to understand the relationship that exists between tourism and development, it is important primarily to understand what is meant by the term ‘development’. One important point is that if development is linked to economic progress, then the majority of third world countries are currently not in a developmental stage at all. Sharpley et al (2002:25) state therefore that development should be classified as “the reduction of widespread poverty and unemployment”. However, this solely relates to third world countries, as poverty, whilst existing to some

As the physical boundaries of countries have become more flexible and easier to cross, tourist activities increase in importance and popularity. Tourism as such represents an economic source of wealth in some countries, generating substantial contributions to the GDP.

Tourism is defined as recreational travel (Russell, 2017) and comes in many forms. People enjoy traveling to other countries,