This week’s topics
Contemporary and Future Drivers in Tourism and Hospitality
- Climate crisis and net-zero targets
- Artificial intelligence and hyper-personalisation
- Changing consumer values
- Sharing economy expansion
- ? Earth Month Webinar: Turning sustainability challenges into business opportunities
- Net Zero Strategies: Real Transformation or Greenwashing? - HEC Climate Days
What you will be able to do
- 1.3 Assess the contemporary factors that will affect the future development of the tourism and hospitality industry.
Activity
Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: assess the contemporary factors that will affect the future development of the tourism and hospitality industry.
Study materials
Videos
- ? Earth Month Webinar: Turning sustainability challenges into business opportunities · YouTube · Saïd Business School, University of Oxford · 57 min · for registered students
- Net Zero Strategies: Real Transformation or Greenwashing? - HEC Climate Days · YouTube · HEC Paris · 95 min · for registered students
- Smart Tourism | The Future Of The Tourism Industry Is SMART · YouTube · Dr Hayley Stainton | Tourism Teacher · 10 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Tourism: The International Business (Mill, 2010), ch. 12: Future trends · PDF · Other, textbook chapter; pp. 287–297 · for registered students
- OECD Tourism Trends and Policies 2024, Country profile: United Kingdom · PDF · Oecd, report; pp. 279–283 · for registered students
- Tourism for Development: 20 Reasons Sustainable Tourism Counts for Development (World Bank Group, 2017) · Reading · Other, report · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
