Golobeisation N Tourism

lamissaGlobalisation and Tourism

 Globalisation describes the process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of political ideas through communication, transportation, and trade. It is basically time and space compression. I had a little idea about this particular topic as I had learned this in school as a part of my social sciences, but had not seen in through a touristic perspective. The globalisation phenomena has changed the nature of the tourism product, and has made it more convenient opening new markets such as incentive travel, conferences , shopping and weddings. Globalisation today has made tourism a huge industry in which all the countries of the world are trying to make a lot of money from tourism as oil has come to depletion.

Tourism basically has three aspects namely, polarized, regionalized and relative decline. Polarized is the dominance of a few large movements that outweigh the rest for example Japan to Europe, U.S.A. to Mexico etc. Regionalized movement is all about international movement of tourists from one country to another country. Relative decline means a decrease in the movement of tourists to certain continents such as movement from Europe to the Far East.

Tourism globalizes the culture of modernity, consumerism and hedonism. Cultural globalisation basically means when tourists move from one country to another on the basis of objects, their ideals and signs. Tourism if to be taken on the whole needs a lot of global infrastructure like physical infrastructure like airports, finance infrastructure like credit card facilities and various other infrastructures like information, language and communication.

Globalisation however has lead to a divide between the Developed and the developing or Third world countries where the western society consumes the third world countries as a tourism product due to the wage differences leading to the zooification of these poverty stricken...