Tourism Enterprise. David Leslie

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СКАЧАТЬ begins to decline and continues to do so then the impact on employment will be dramatic.

      A weakness of professional associations involved in tourism is that these all too often comprise the major players in the market – as well illustrated by the comparatively recently established government’s Tourism Advisory Group in the UK which comprises members from Arora International Hotels, Eurostar, Virgin Atlantic, Center Parcs, British Airways and representatives from a range of national tourist organizations. Such a grouping bears little resemblance to the profile of enterprises involved in the supply of tourism. Further, the representatives involved may have no experience of working in those enterprises which constitute over 90% of tourism supply and thus have no real understanding of those operations at ground level. Therefore they have little place on such a group other than to foster their own vested interests, which predominantly will be of little relevance to the majority of owners and managers.

      The fact that few of these enterprises, especially within the 2011 group, noted ‘hard times’ over the previous 5 years trading suggests a positive outlook, which it might be argued was a factor in their participation i.e. poorly performing enterprises were not likely to participate in the study.

      Further Reading

      A substantive element of this study are tourism enterprises in the LDNP. The LDNP has witnessed substantial tourism development over the last two centuries, which has obviously had a large impact on this highly popular tourist destination. How it has changed is of interest in itself and thus readers’ are referred to Davies, H. (1979) A Walk Around the Lakes. Weidenfield and Nicholson, London.

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