Free Writing After the lecture on “Global and Local Tourism”
Each time, or better said each day after
seeing/hearing/reading something about TOURISM, I understand over and over
again why I chose this career.
Tourism is such a big industry that moves so
many people all around the world, it has a river, no – an Ocean of
possibilities for everyone. It starts with housekeeping and ends by running the
Amadeus System. Tourism is a powerful weapon that a country can possess on a
local scheme or either on a global one. By studying and understanding this
industry we enter a world of pure marketing, pure strategies and competition
for being unique, unbeatable or simply the best.
Each day there are millions of people travelling
that includes the travelling of money. Looking on a global perspective, tourism
is one of the best industries to work for/in. Why? From my point of view it´s
always in trend, and if not, the power of a human being can make it so. We can
control it, we can adapt it, we can develop and we also can kill it. The power of management and a good planning
will always be the answer for a spectacular tourism business.
Global Tourism.
Perspectives? It will
never die.
Growing? Maybe.
Nobody knows what
will be in the future, but for sure the tourism is not going to die. Nowadays
travelling is a way of living, a way of discovering yourself and your own
country (sometimes even more than discovering the recipient one). Even though
on a general scale there are just 10% of the whole globe populations that are
travelling (waw!), it remains an important number.
Local Tourism.
Is the basis.
Without
a start point there will never be a destination. Acting locally is the first
step in building a big and powerful industry. That is why the public sector and
the private one on a local scale should work as a team in order to survive or
in order to better succeed on the international market. Many times when the
private and the public sectors work apart it leads to misunderstandings after which
everyone lose.
The resources that a
destination can offer belong to the population and not to some burocratic
institutions, that is why on a local perspective, the tourism specialists
should always “be there” to assist and give the needed information to that
“always busy institutions” in order to promote a safe and sustainable tourism.
Sustainability – yes.
An important and very popular nowadays word. I guess this will be my last point
to discuss, and last idea to write. The global and local perspective is to
build and maintain the sustainability in your own body, home, city, country and
in the whole world. We destroy more than we build, so the easiest way would be
to sustain at least what we already have. America, Asia, Europe, Australia –
people travel and people USE. We like to use the cultures and the traditions of
the places we visit as it is the best way of discovering it. The experiences we
gather build our personalities and our lives.
To conclude, I will
tell you that from my point of view TOURISM should be a business where
everybody wins: the tourist, the destination and of course the industry.
Great writing.Keep up your enthusiasm forever. There will always be new things to wonder, new people to know. New skills to train and new things to learn. Brgds Ulla-M, your teacher from October last year -a bit late commentary, sorry!
ReplyDeleteHello Ulla-Maija! Of course I remember you! Thank you very much for your feedback on several of my posts. My enthusiasm is still very strong, and since I remember myself I always was so :) I am very happy I received such a positive feedback from you! Thank you
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