Importance of understanding climatic and geographic conditions

I have mainly learned about the climatic and the scenic beauties of Thailand. I think that this work has really been very helpful for understanding about the geographic conditions and the climatic conditions that are prevalent in Thailand (Huttasin, Mommaas & Knippenberg 2015). Currently, my understanding used to say that the government of Thailand can solve the issues very easily but it is not possible without knowing that the kinds of tourists that they will be getting (Jones, & Pimdee, 2017).

It is very important to know that the day-to-day practices can cause a major difference in the prevalent theories that are being taught in the class. I will thus keep a note of all the lecture slides and then class lessons that are being taught every day at class. This will help me to reconstruct the knowledge that I had and the ways in which I can get the new kinds of knowledge that are being taught about the tourism and hospitality.

In this week, I have been able to learn that there are many different tends in the aspect of tourism and hospitality. The different kinds of trends that must be accepted in the case of hospitality are as follows

Globalization Health, Safety, and SecurityØ  Diversity and Changing DemographicsØ  ServiceØ  TechnologyØ  Sustainability and Green TravelØ  Legal IssuesØ  Social Media and MobileØ

In this modern scenario, the trend of Globalization is increasing at a very rapid rate and the consumers have to understand that the hotel management can actually work oer it only if there is the proper inflow of the tourists. The income group of the tourists also makes a major difference in the ways through which the organizations try to make the developments.

• The tourism in the 21^stcentury has increased at a very rapid rate. The concepts of urban tourism and rural tourism have also increased rapidly. The rural tourism mainly refers to the concepts of eco tourism and the other important elements of nature. The needs and the demands of people have also undergone huge changes in this modern century (Horner & Swarbrooke, 2016).  Because of this, the companies are trying their level best to make some changes in their concept of tourism. They are working on the many new models like the eco tourism and the coastal; resorts as well. These are mainly hinted towards making the tourism experiences more valuable and memorable for the tourists. Population densities can be five times higher in coastal areas. Retirement resorts are growing disproportionately as the population ages. 

• Foresight methodology is one of the methods that is mainly used by the tourism organizations to see if there are any unforeseen happenings that might take place in the tourism and hospitality sectors.Foresight is not prediction! It is about getting an idea about what plausible futures might look like.
• We are good at learning from the past; we need to learn from the futureas well – we need to develop a ‘history of the future’ as we do a ‘history of the past’. 

The future of tourism mainly talks about the fact that if the higher income groups go into the different places, it will be easier for them to collect the funds. The funds will help in carrying out all the maintenance works of the tourist spots.   

A channel of proper distribution is needed so that the tourism activities can take place properly. They will help the hotels to function properly. Not only the hotels but also all the other aspects of tourism will be able to function properly if the channels of the distribution of the services can function at a very rapid rate (Chong, 2017). The product utility must also take place properly so that the tourists who are coming to the different tourist place are able to get proper products. This will also be able to give the tourism industry to get a very good and free flow of income for carrying out the  activities of developing the different places.

Changing trends in tourism and hospitality

There must always be some or the other kinds of productive activities that will be helping for the purpose of developing the tourism is known as the productive activities. The tourists can be a mobile consumer or a dynamic consumer but the tourism activities or the items of attraction are usually located at a very fixed kind of place. The tourism activities are located at a very fixed geographic area. It is for this reason that a proper logistical setup is needed for providing the supply of all the tourism activities all over the place. This will also make it easier for the tourists.

The sustainable development goals must be carried on in a proper way. This will be helping the tourism department to know that they are not harming the natural set up of the tourism spots. The SDGs or the sustainable developmental goals must be set up in a proper way so that the tourism can flourish and can actually turn out to be a very good flow of income for the tourism department.

Sustainable development is one of the major goals that is present with many of the tourism companies. The main purpose of the tourism and the hospitality sector must be to make sure that they are developing a green, eco friendly or a very healthy approach. Sustainable Tourism replaced ‘Green Tourism’, which focused on traditional use and conservation of natural resources. • The more generic term recognizes the wider objectives of the concept through business development, research and marketing of environmentally friendly tourism activities. They have to make sure that none of the tourism activity is causing any kinds of harm to the developing tourism activities of that place.

This week mainly taught us how to carry on the writing or the reflection of the models through which we can carry on the task of reflection. This is mainly because of the fact that the students are able to reflect about the lessons of their classes only through the proper kind of reflection. This 4r model is also very helpful in order to understand what they have actually learnt from then various kinds of lessons that have been taught in the classes. The weekly journal entry system also helps in understanding about the lessons learnt from each week.

I have learnt that the future of the tourism and hospitality business is largely dependent on the kinds of tourist inflow into the market. I have learnt in the lessons that the tourism will be developing only with the proper resources and capital inflow.

My current theoretical understanding that I had, show me that the tourist activities often do not help the companies in promoting the tourism department. I will be making sure that I am learning all the class notes properly so that I can gain a clear cut understanding.

After going through the lessons, I have asked myself that what the future of the tourism development is. There are also many questions regarding the sustainable development of the tourism activities.

I have been able to work over the last kind of knowledge that I gained. Then I have been able to develop many new kinds of knowledge about the changes that can come in the future of tourism industry.   

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