Journal article
Tourism into the Future – Towards 2020, and Beyond
Tourism Recreation Research, Vol.30(3), pp.77-85
2005
Abstract
In the future the tourism industry is likely to be affected by at least five key global forcing factors - population, geopolitics, economics, technologies, and the natural environments, and it will find new ways to strategically position across its global market. It will likely adopt multiple virtual, and physical, integrated value-adding strategies and approaches. Targeting the tourist of the future will involve an array of response-driven approaches across a range of markets, market levels and localities. Many of these changes will be driven by new technologies creating a new era of cybertourism. It is essential that the tourism industry position itself as a strategic early mover - planning, trialling and incorporating emerging ideas and technologies, and applying multiple market strategies, to deliver new business options such as 'e-tourist houses'. Such ideas will generate new streams, thereby further strengthening the industry's global competitiveness into the future. This paper examines a range of issues that are likely to impact and to some extent the future directions of the tourism industry.
Details
- Title
- Tourism into the Future – Towards 2020, and Beyond
- Authors
- Sajid Anwar (Author) - University of AdelaideJ Hamilton (Author) - James Cook University
- Publication details
- Tourism Recreation Research, Vol.30(3), pp.77-85
- Publisher
- Centre for Tourism Research and Development
- Date published
- 2005
- DOI
- 10.1080/02508281.2005.11081489
- ISSN
- 0250-8281
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2005 Tourism Recreation Research. Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; USC Business School - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449985802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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