This document summarizes several key trends influencing the growth of the tourism industry:
1. Greater disposable income, more paid holidays, easier and cheaper travel have expanded people's travel options.
2. Destinations have invested in improved facilities and infrastructure to attract more tourists.
3. An aging population and more leisure time have increased tourism.
4. New types of specialized tourism have emerged, such as disaster, ghost, slum, and war tourism.
5. Technology and social media are changing how tourism is marketed and experienced. Peer-to-peer services and wearable devices will continue shaping the industry.
2. BBC
What factors influenced
• Have greater disposable income
• Have more paid holidays
• Travel has become easier and cheaper
• People are visiting a wider range of
– watch television programmes and browse the internet
• Greater variety of holidays to choose from
• People have more leisure time
• Many countries have invested money in facilities
and infrastructure that make it easier for tourists
• Ageing populations
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/geography/human_processes/tourism/revision/1/
3. Types of tourists
1. Incentive tourists
2. Health or medical
tourist
3. Business tourist
4. Education tourists
5. Adventure tourists
6. Cultural tourist
7. Eco-tourists
8. Leisure tourist
9. Religious tourist
10. Sport and recreation tourist
11. Backpacking or youth
tourist
12. Special Interest Tourist (STI)
4. Types of “official” tourism
• 遺產旅遊 (heritage)
• 節慶活動 (festival tourism)
• 文化 (cultural tourism)
• 生態 (ecotourism)
• 休閒 (leisure tourism)
http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-weird-types-of-tourism.php
What about hot spring溫泉旅遊呢??
What about food festival 美食慶典
呢??
5. Eight types of special topic tourisms 1
• Disaster Tourism
– 2004, South Asia and South East Asia after the
Indian Ocean earthquake tsunami
– New Orleans and the U.S. Gulf Coast post-
Hurricane Katrina
– 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption in Iceland
• Ghost Tourism
http://www.hotelclub.com/blog/5-types-of-alternative-tourism/
6. Eight types of special topic tourisms 2
• Slum/ Ghetto Tourism
– certifiably questionable and on the ethical
borderline when the experience is utterly passive
• Pop-Culture Tourism
– it involves destinations with indelible connections
to popular books, films, television shows, music,
major events or a particular celebrity
7. Eight types of special topic tourisms 3
• War Tourism
• Fertility/ reproductive Tourism (生育)
– legal and innocent
– a subset of medical tourism
8. Eight types of special topic tourisms 4
• Dark Tourism
– Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in
Poland
• Suicide Tourism
– suicide tourism is related to suicide and
euthanasia
14. Tourism for 2015
1
• Design-led ‘poshtels’ across the UK are gaining
in popularity among stylish and cost-conscious
Brits.
• Wearable devices such as smartwatches and
Google Glass are expected to drive travel’s
next phase of e-commerce as they go
mainstream by 2016.
• Peer-to-peer dining is on the menu in Europe
as new start-ups offer visitors in-home meals,
cooking lessons or guided food tours.
15. Tourism trends for 2015
2
• The rise in popularity of cycling in the
Americas poses a threat to golf tourism as
middle-aged men swap their clubs for their
bikes.
• Hotel chains are offering reward schemes set
up to encourage ‘braggies’, where guests take
photos of the hotel and share the images on
social media.
16. Tourism trends for 2015
3
• Africa is tipped to become the surfing capital
of the world as its countries benefit from
intra-regional and domestic travel.
• The Middle East is repositioning itself with
design tourism in an effort to revitalise visitor
arrivals and attract creative minds.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/
travel_news/article-2819230/Posh-
hostels-home-cooked-meals-
prepared-strangers-ll-surfing-
Africa-travel-trends-2015-
revealed.html
17. Tourism trends for 2015
4
• WeChat has emerged as a viable sales channel
for Chinese travel companies.
– 國家旅遊局官方微信
– 重點推送國家旅遊局重要政務信息、重要旅遊
新聞、文明旅遊理性消費等提示警示信息以及
旅遊安全等公共服務信息
• India’s rail network is expecting an increase in
online and mobile bookings
18. Travel Trends for 2015
1
• Adventure Travel That Gives Back
– Once a lifetime–
– WHOA
• We’re all about bringing women from around the world
together to take on chakkenges.
• Destination Marketing With Virtual Reality
19. Travel Trends for 2015
2
• Local Experiences
– Black Tomato bespoke luxury adventure company
• Visit bossa nova musician in Brazil or a private tour of
the Sydney Opera house with a local vocal coach
• Multigenerational Aspirational Trips
• Hotels Embracing Technology
– Keyless services
http://www.travelchannel.com/interests/hot-topics/articles/travel-trends-for-2015
27. Vila, 2015
• Title
– Competing for the disability tourism market – A
comparative exploration of the factors of
accessible tourism competitiveness in Spain and
Australia
• 預期目標
– determining the factors of tourism destination
competitiveness for disability
– present a ranking of competitiveness factors for
accessible tourism destinations
28. 方法與模型
• Crouch's Conceptual Model of Destination
Competitiveness
• based on PWDs’ accessibility needs,
destination resources and attractions,
compare the competitiveness factors between
the two countries
• clustering analysis
29. Vila, 2015
• 研究對象 people with disabilities (PWD)
• 過去研究關注
– the constraints faced by tourists with disabilities
– market dynamics
– Motivations
– information needs
– cross-country comparisons
– approaches to disability discrimination…
– Recently, examined the processes required to
incorporate disability related considerations within
tourism policy, planning and development
30. Why PWD?
• 15% of the global population
– a significant relationship between ageing and
disability
– with disability rate increasing as people age
– 且若關注,則會有下列族群受益
– pregnant women
– temporary transitory disabilities
– families with young children.
31. Why Au. and Spain
• both countries display appropriate histories
and track records in access/accessible tourism
initiatives
• have well-developed tourism statistical
foundations that can be used to benchmark
accessible tourism
32. 細部定義
• Competitiveness: Ritchie and Crouch (2003);
– the ability to increase tourism expenditure, to
increasingly attract visitors while providing them
with satisfying, memorable experiences, and to do
so in a profitable way, while enhancing the well-
being of destination residents and preserving the
natural capital of the destination for future
generations
33. Why Conceptual
Model of Destination Competitiveness?
• economic, technological, environmental,
political, legal, sociocultural and demographic
factors
• also note the influence of the micro
competitive environment, which is composed
of residents, employers, mass media, financial
organisations, business tourism
– Hong (2009) modified this model
34.
35. Coghlan, 2012
• Facilitating reef tourism management through
an innovative importance-performance
analysis method
36. Why Reef?
• Within the field of tourism in protected areas
there have been a number of calls for greater
understanding of destination, attraction or
service attributes
• reef heavily reliant on their environmental
condition, which under increasing pressure
from human activities
38. 研究
• 過去研究關注
– 環境與旅客數的交互作用
– the size of the dive group and the price of the dive
– weather, staff and infrastructure have been shown to
be important in the GBR
– These studies highlight both the mix of attributes that
– the need to consider a range of attributes (natural,
social and operational) in reef visitor satisfaction
studies.
– 可參考marine-based tourism, gap of expectation and
experience