TOURISM DESTINATIONS

Tourism Destinations

Tourism Destinations

In order to understand the accounts of tourism destinations, we shall discuss the accounts of making significant amends in order to highlight the most important and crucial visitor target destinations around the globe. The following table shall help us identify a clear picture and to identify the key tourists attractions around the world (Adams, 1984). In the year 2011, the top destinations around the world are:

•Vieques Island, Puerto Rico

•Phuket, Thailand

•New York City

•Urubamba Valley, Peru

•Bali

•Doha, Qatar

•Sydney, Australia

•Costa Navarino, Greece

•Dubai, United Arab Emirates

•Shanghai, China

•Bora Bora

•Cape Town, South Africa

•Turkey

•Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Tourism Destination Trends

For this paper we shall be the tourism destination trends that have prevailed, we shall be discussing the accountability of making significant amends accordingly. While tourism has been a way to address the challenges resulting from the shift from Fordism to post-Fordism and from production to consumption, tourism production itself has remained remarkably varied. The travel industry has provided post-Fordist, individually tailored experiences (e.g., specialized luxury ecotourism excursions). However, in neo-Fordist tourism, which is marked by industrial concentration of airlines, transnational hotels, cruise companies, tour operators, and computerized booking systems and by high sales volume, standardized vacation packages appealing to a mass audience continue to be provided. Neo-Fordist tourism employment consists of both highly skilled, well-paid permanent professionals and flexible, low-wage seasonal labor. At the same time, the travel and tourism industry also includes pre-Fordist or artisanal businesses such as bed and breakfasts (Adams, 1984).

Thus, given the coexistence of different production systems in both time and space, there has not been a clear shift from Fordism to post-Fordism in the tourism industry. Ecotourism is by far the fastest growing segment of the global tourism industry, itself one of the largest enterprises of the world (Albers, 1983). From a handful in the 1980s, eco-tour operators have proliferated rapidly, with virtually every major travel company offering some sort of eco-travel and millions of people taking part in eco-vacations each year. These statistics are somewhat inflated because they lump together most nature and adventure travel with ecotourism, but they do demonstrate a growing public interest in this sort of travel. As the popularity of ecotourism has grown, so has its attractiveness to governments, particularly those in developing countries. (Barbler, 1993)

Many governments have viewed ecotourism as less problematic than other avenues of economic growth, such as mining, logging, and ranching, and perhaps even more profitable (Barbler, 1993). By the early 1990s, most developing countries were promoting ecotourism as part of their development strategy. In several countries, nature-based tourism mushroomed into the largest foreign exchange earner, regardless of whether the entire country, such as Costa Rica, or a part of it, such as the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, was being promoted as an ecotourism destination.

Even countries formerly suspicious of international contact, such as China and Cuba, have now enthusiastically joined the ecotourism bandwagon. Multilateral institutions and aid agencies such as the World Bank, United Nations ...