World Travel Trends

October 17th, 2008 by Administrator

What’s Up in Tourism

There has been an upmarket trend in the tourism over the last few decades, especially in Europe where international travel for short breaks has grown common.

Tourists have now higher levels of income and wider leisure time and they are also better-educated and have developed more sophisticated tastes.

Thus, now there is an increasing demand of better quality products, which has resulted in a fragmenting of the usual mass market for beach vacations; people want more specialised versions, such as quieter resorts, family-oriented holidays, or in the opposite side, sexually active people getaways and niche market-targeted destination hotels and resorts.

The developments in technology and transport infrastructure, such as wide body jets and low-cost airlines, and more airports have made many types of tourism more affordable as never before.

Changes in lifestyle, such as retiree-age people who sustain year round tourism has made its mark. Internet online sales of tourism products are quite easy and to the reach of almost everyone. Some sites have now started to offer dynamic packaging, in which an inclusive price is quoted for a personal tailor-made package requested by the customer upon impulse.

The September 11, 2001 attacks and terrorist threats to tourist destinations such as Bali and European cities, took their toll with a huge setback for travl traffic worldwide. Some of the tourist destinations, including the fascinanting beach resorts of Cancn lost popularity due to their bad business decision to open the destination to spring breakers.

Nowadays, the Riviera Maya, a few miles from Cancun, with its breath taking sandy beaches and crystal aquamarine waters, attracts high-end tourist from all over the world, and expensive gourmet hotels and resorts are the trend in that zone.

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