The Future of Tourism
Keywords:
tech-savvy travelers, “grand travel”, space tourism, marijuan tourism, demographic age pyramids, single supplement, inclusive tourism, mass customizationAbstract
The future of today’s most profitable sector is look like a crystal ball. If you absorb it from any side, it is still shining even more than now. It means it will definitely bring more profit and benefit to the host country in the future too. There are some optimisms about bright future of tourism like using an available tech to draw customers, resolving existing pain points, and creating and developing sustainable future initiatives. There might be some demographic shifts, ethnic mix of some nations, more travelers with disabilities and special needs and off course emerging a new tourism market which satisfy the future needs of tourists. In this article, we gaze into the future by considering some of the emerging trends in the tourism industry. These trends may shift and new ones may emerge, in any cases it will help to develop tourism sector more. But it is highly likely that in this period tourism industry will face some of the challenges and opportunities. Therefore this article may also provide some researches and solutions for adopting this new challenges and trends.
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