Tourism on the modern stage and his prospects part 1

Presently tourism is powerful world industry, occupying a to 10% world gross product, where enormous the masses of office workers are involved, fixed assets of production, a big business is attracted. Maybe, that tourism — it and serious policy of global level.

As far as development of both postindustrial and new industrial countries greater totally of population of our planet is engaged in the sphere of tourism. In the last few years the permanent steady tendency of growth of number of tourists is traced annually on the average on 4 %, even a financial crisis in Asia 1998 did not result in substantial deformation of these processes. Profits from tourism in the world in 1997 448 milliards of dollars of the USA made, from data of WTO,, that on 7,9% anymore, what in a previous year.

WTO forecasts, that in 2010 the general amount of tourist journeys will be 937 millions, and profits from this business will grow to 1,1 billion dollars of the USA.

Tourism, presenting subject-subjective relations, shows by itself the tertiary market of services, and not surprisingly, that his most development is exactly on postindustrial countries. A profit from tourism is presented in a table 4.3.

Table 4.3

Country	Income, mln. dollars	Share in the tourism world market, %
USA Germany Italy Spain   France Great Britain Australia China Hong Kong		16,74 8,09 6,99 6,28   6,23 4,43 2,76 2,69 2,15

To maintenance of enormous amount traveling the large army of specialists, workings in different areas is attracted, what makes essence of infrastructure and industry of tourism. Presently 15-y everybody on Earth in any case is related to industry of tourism. Thus, tourism is provided by creation of plenty of workplaces. It one of the most positive factors, which give a positive effect to society from this kind of activity.

About the level of development of the industry of tourism in postindustrial countries it is possible to judge on next facts. In the USA on every habitant is there are more than on Russian tourists in two times, but at approximately equal prices on tourist service profitableness of this industry in the USA in five times higher, than in Russia.

For realization of idea of bringing in of tourist streams multidimensional and carefully studied and estimated both tourist resources, possibilities of claimed and their potential and features and potential of objects of tourist industry.

From data of WTO, during the last decades there is permanent growth of volumes of international tourism. On the whole development of tourism on the border of millenniums it is possible to name steady, in spite of the crisis phenomena of both regional and world scale.

The dynamics of development of tourism on regions in the second half 1990^th is shown in a table 4.4.

Table 4.4

Region	Tourist arrivals, mln. people	Receipts from tourism, mln. dollars
In total in the world Including: Europe America East Asia and Pacific pool Africa the Near East Southern Asia	594,1   350,2 116,5 87,5 21,5 4,3	616,6   362,9 122,8 88,3 23,1 4,3	221,1 112,7 81,2 8,3 7,7 3,8	448,3   225,5 119,2 82,1 8,7 8,5 4,1

From the resulted data it is clearly visible, that Europe is a leading region on the amount of visits of tourists. The enormous amount of cultural and historical monuments is here concentrated exactly, and, in addition, industry of entertainments and service is at high level. The infrastructure of tourism is so well developed, that tourists with quite different queries can get necessary them tourist product. Along with fashionable resorts the special routes, counted on young people and of scanty means tourists, are developed. From data on 1999, although Europe and reserves championship on the amount of visits, but growth rates here extremely low— 1 %.

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