Tourism involves, on the one hand, masses of people (i.e., tourists) possessing leisure time, disposable wealth, and a motivation to travel and, on the other hand, complex infrastructures to transport (both internationally and locally) and accommodate (both lodging and eating) tourists as they travel to alluring destinations (historical, religious, architectural, and eco sites; museums; performances and culture shows; and recreational activities) the access to which can be managed for the economic gain of tourism providers. Governments and private individuals\/businesses can be considered tourism providers, and both are highly invested in the establishment, nurturing and future of tourism on a global scale because it involves the flow of a huge amount of capital.<\/p>\n
The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) reports that in 2015 approximately 1.2\u00a0billion tourist arrivals motivated by leisure, recreation and holidays took place globally, generating an estimated 1.26 trillion\u00a0dollars of revenues for host countries. “An ever-increasing number of destinations worldwide have opened up to, and invested in tourism, turning it into a key driver of socio-economic progress through the creation of jobs and enterprises, export revenues, and infrastructure development\u00a0. . . in many developing countries tourism ranks as the first export sector.” (UNWTO 2016:2)<\/span> Such volume of flow of people and capital throughout the world would appear to support the existence of increasing global interdependencies, a constantly intensifying global cultural economy writers such as Appadurai and Steger label as globalization.<\/p>\n Suggested Readings:<\/strong><\/p>\n Appadurai, Arjun. “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy,” in The Globalization Reader<\/em>. 2nd Ed. Edited by Frank J. Lechner and John Boli. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2004. 100-108<\/p>\n Smith, Melanie K. Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies<\/em>. London: Routledge, 2003.<\/p>\n Smith, Valene L. Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism<\/em>. 2nd edition. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.<\/p>\n Steger, Manfred. Globalization: A Very Short Introduction<\/em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.<\/p>\n United Nations World Tourism Organization. Tourism Highlights: 2016 Edition<\/em>. PDF downloaded on 8\/12\/16 from <http:\/\/unwto.org\/facts\/eng\/highlights.htm<\/a>><\/span><\/p>\n <<<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tourism involves, on the one hand, masses of people (i.e., tourists) possessing leisure time, disposable wealth, and a motivation to travel and, on the other hand, complex infrastructures to transport (both internationally and locally) and accommodate (both lodging and eating) tourists as they travel to alluring destinations (historical, religious, architectural, and eco sites; museums; performances … Continue reading “The Tourism Industry and the Process of Globalization”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-menu-items","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}